Why Hire an HR Consultant?
November 16, 2023
With an ever-increasing demand on business and business leaders to reduce or control costs, a natural starting point would be reviewing the overhead departments such as Human Resources. Although everyone can agree that Human Resources provides critical and valuable services to any business and is often a key component of a successful business strategy, the question that can be asked is does your business truly need an entire HR department, usually comprised of a manager, generalist and administrator? The answer might be that your business can be more cost effective, produce the same or even better results and remain just as efficient by outsourcing your HR needs to a consultant.
This is exactly what Absolute HR aims to do: reduce cost, produce results and achieve your business objectives to achieve maximum successs.
Benefits of Using an HR Consultant
Improved Employee Morale
This is such a critical aspect of any successful business. When employees are happy and engaged, working for a company in which they truly feel valued and important, it can improve company culture, profitability and can lead to being an employer of choice.
Legal Compliance/Reducing Risks
HR Consultants stay up to date with changing employment, human rights & privacy laws, new requirements and expectations in the workplace. An HR Consultant on your team of professionals significantly reduces your risk on legal matters.
Increased Efficiency
Because most experienced consultants have a good understanding of best practices and know how to streamline processes, using a consultant for your HR needs can save your business money and make your HR requirements more effective and efficient.
Better Recruitment
Improving your business’s recruitment process, including developing the right recruitment sourcing strategies, a consultant can increase the number of applicants, improve and attract the right talent and reduce new employee turnover whether you are looking for permanent full time, temporary, contract or casual employees.
Training and Development
HR consulting services can create employee training based on the needs of your organization. An efficient onboarding process, for example, will help new hires learn the ropes quickly, avoid “new job” confusion, generating a stronger performing new hire and reducing new hire turnover. Additional training will help keep employees competitive and knowledgeable, as well as improve company culture and engagement.
Performance Management
Performance Management is crucial in keeping employees motivated and helping businesses achieve their goals. Yet, this is one of the most overlooked HR functions because it’s time consuming and prone to biases. Consultants can help your company develop an unbiased performance appraisal system to achieve company and employee goals and place rewards based on merit, resulting in immediate identification of employee, process and procedure strengths and weakness.
HR Investigations
Most workplace investigations arise from employee and/or employer complaints or concerns and can result in real and costly legal issues. These situations can be stressful and time-consuming that hurt your business when not dealt with correctly. An HR consultant is in the best position to handle these situations because as an external third party, a consultant can remain unbiased in the proceedings and preserve the integrity of your business’s HR processes.
For more information on how your business can benefit from the services of an external HR consultant, please contact Absolute HR at info@absolutehr.ca
