Cost-effective HR Support Designed to Build and Strengthen People Foundations.
Practical Advice. Strategic Guidance. Hands-on Support.
Our HR Essentials service provides the people fundamentals your business needs to remain compliant, stable and in control. You’ll be assured you have the right policies, processes and people practices in place so you can operate with confidence. You’ll obtain the infrastructure to stabilise and even grow your business, without unnecessary risk or complexity.
HR Essentials
We strengthen your existing HR infrastructure or build it from the ground up by getting the fundamentals in place, including:
- Design or audit of your HR processes
- Creation or review of your HR policies and documentation
- Audit of employee HR files and HR data
- Employee insights gained through Employee Opinion Surveys (EoS) or pulse surveys
- Selection or optimisation of your HR Technology
- Development of training or talent development strategies and programmes
- Review or design of your HR strategy and people roadmap
Once the essentials are in place, we can then provide flexible support via our HR outsource solutions, including delivery of HR Operations across the entire employee lifecycle, Employee Relations Advice, Fractional HR Director Support, Professional HR Guidance Line and delivery of Learning & Development.
Need Recruitment Essentials Too?
We can also strengthen your existing Recruitment infrastructure or build it from the ground up. Like the HR Essentials, we can audit existing or design new infrastructure to improve your recruitment capabilities, including:
- Design or audit of your recruitment processes and documentation
- Audit of your recruitment spend
- Audit and rationalisation of agency partner utilisation
- Audit of your contingent workforce
- Audit of your Employer Brand perception
- Audit of your existing ATS Technology and data
You can then benefit from ongoing Recruitment support with exclusive terms.
Ongoing HR & Recruitment Support
Once your HR essentials are in place, we don’t simply walk away.
We can continue to support you with flexible, cost-effective ongoing HR and Recruitment support – helping you operate with confidence, respond to challenges, remain compliant and adapt to change.
Ongoing HR Support Includes:
- HR Operations including HR Administration and Front Line HR Assistance across the entire employee lifecycle
- Employee Relations Advice for Leaders and Line Managers
- Fractional HR Director Support
- Professional HR Guidance Line
- Learning and Development
Ongoing Recruitment Support Includes:
- Permanent, Fixed Term Recruitment and Contractor Recruitment at preferential rates
- Annual Hiring Manager Training and Upskilling
- Employer Brand and Employee Value Proposition Advice
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategies
- Talent Insights in Your Market
If you engage us as your exclusive recruitment partner to manage all of your hiring, you will avoid the cost of building and maintaining your own recruitment infrastructure – including headcount, systems, job boards, and tools – while still benefiting from a fully optimised hiring solution.
We will:
- Manage all vacancies on our Applicant Tracking System, streamlining your hiring process, improving visibility, and providing data-led insights
- Activate the right blend of advertising channels and job boards to complement our ‘search every role’ approach and maximise candidate reach
- Provide a dedicated recruitment dashboard so you can track hiring progress and key metrics in real time
All of this is included within our recruitment fees – meaning no additional spend or investment is required.
Why Partner with The Curve Group?
We’ve taken over two decades of experience transforming HR functions for clients ranging from start-ups to FTSE 100 organisations and distilled it into our HR Essentials service. We’ve designed a unique service that delivers the practical, compliant and cost-effective HR essentials your business needs – implementing the necessary foundations to operate, grow and succeed in line with the latest UK employment legislation, regulations and best practices.
- 22 years’ experience designing, developing, and elevating HR and Recruitment functions
- Enterprise-level thinking tailored to your business size, so you benefit from best-practice approaches
- Access to multi-disciplinary HR & Recruitment expertise at a fraction of the cost of building your own internal team
- Flexible support – modular, wraparound, or fully outsourced – which can scale and pivot as your needs change
- Embed sound foundations across HR and Recruitment so your business can stabilise or grow with confidence
- Access to proven processes, technology, and tools to streamline and transform experiences, data, and workflows
- Reduce costs by avoiding multiple headcount, expensive ad-hoc advice and reliance upon agencies
- Protect your business, improve compliance, and reduce risk through robust governance and audit-ready practices
- Enhance employee and candidate experiences with structured processes, guidance, and best-practice frameworks
- Recruit top talent deploying our headhunting techniques for every single role regardless of level to find the perfect fit
- Engage and retain employees through surveys, training, development and cultural initiatives that help your people thrive
- Access meaningful data and insights to inform decisions and improve workforce planning
- Benefit from discounted rates for additional services to extend capability without inflating costs
Lastly, you can seamlessly transition HR and/or recruitment back in-house when you are ready. Our support is fully flexible, so it can evolve and reduce as your own internal capability grows.
Get In Touch
Whether you already have a clear idea of what you need, want to achieve, or you want to explore your options – we can help.
We know that every business is as unique as the people within it. Our HR Essentials service sets up and strengthens the people fundamentals your business needs to ensure compliance, stability and control.
Get in touch today, so we can find out more about what you need and how we can help.
We are ready to listen.
