RECRUITMENT & HR SERVICES
FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND CHARITIES

When you’ve identified that a new hire is need - either for business growth or to replace someone - often the last thing anyone has time for is recruitment. Let alone providing a positive candidate experience where CVs are reviewed promptly, responded to in a timely manner and new starters arrive to a warm welcome.

That’s where a Recruitment and HR Specialist comes in.

As your Recruitment and HR Specialist, Lynne manages your recruitment and on-boarding processes, helping you to attract, hire and retain the best candidates for the job, while giving you back valuable time to focus on running and growing your organisation.

By Your Side Business Support’s Recruitment & HR Services can save you money by provide cost effective recruitment and HR support as and when you need it. No expensive recruitment agency fees. No monthly salary, PAYE or NI costs. Either pay as you go for a set hourly rate or a pre-agreed project price.

Lynne Wright
Operations, Processes & People, By Your Side

How can a Recruitment & HR specialist support your small business or charity?

Lynne specialises in helping small business owners and charities recruit, on-board and off-board employees and trustees.

She helps you to attract, hire and retain employees by taking care of the HR tasks, paperwork and policies that you need when growing your organisation.

She also works alongside trusted HR consultants, ensuring you have access to wider HR support whenever needed.

Some of the tasks Lynne can help you with include:

  • Writing job adverts and uploading them onto relevant job boards

  • Screening CVs and shortlisting those that are worth hiring manager review

  • Communicating with applicants and providing timely feedback

  • Arranging interviews

  • Sending offer letters and contracts

  • Pre-employment checks and getting reference

  • Ensuring you have the required HR policies and processes in place

  • Drafting Employee & Trustee Handbooks

  • Developing on-boarding checklists and processes

  • Creating recruitment documentation templates i.e. end of probation and pay rise letters

  • Developing off-boarding checklists and processes

Meet Lynne: Operations, Processes & People

Lynne has over 5 years experience supporting businesses with employee recruitment and on-boarding (taking one company from 29 employees to 90 over 4 years).

She’s helped growing businesses to save money on recruitment agency costs by taking responsibility for:

  • time consuming recruitment admin tasks that business owners lack time for

  • providing the candidate experience that attracts and converts your ideal candidates

Since starting By Your Side, she has transferred this skillset to the recruitment and on-boarding of charity Trustees too.

5 years experience recruiting employees

4 years experience defining and managing the employee on-boarding process

1+ year experience recruiting and on-boarding charity Trustees

ACAS trained

Recruitment & HR Specialist Testimonials

  • "Lynne has been the driving force and such a driver of change, thank you. I love the comms and the deck we now have to support our onboarding process and the feedback on the changes have just been brilliant. It’s had such an impact on our teams, it was even raised at our recent company update as an example of how we live our culture."

    Jacey Bunker - BWP - Previous client of Lynne’s

  • "Lynne has gone, and continues to go, above and beyond to make sure that, not only do we hire great people, but everyone who applies leaves with a positive experience of our agency (even if we don’t hire them).”

    Jacey Bunker - BWP - Previous client of Lynne’s

PACKAGES AND PRICING

‘Pay as you go’ prices for businesses and charities whose needs vary month by month

Our Recruitment services are charged at £32.50/hour

Our On-boarding and HR services are charged at £35/hour
(discounted to £32.50/hour for charities)

You only pay for the time you use (rounded to the nearest 15 minutes) and are invoiced monthly in arrears.

Project prices available upon request

Many of our HR tasks (such as job adverts, hiring documentation, handbooks and policies) can be undertaken on a project basis where the deliverable(s) and cost are agreed upfront.

Our projects are quoted on an individual basis and charged across the course of the project (typically 50% upfront and 50% upon completion) giving you the peace of mind that you’re getting the support you need at a price you can easily budget for.

More than a Recruitment & HR Specialist

Recognising that many of her clients would benefit from broader range of services than she provides, Lynne partnered with her VA, Michelle, and By Your Side Business Support was born.

BYS marries both Lynne and Michelle’s complimentary skills sets, doubles their capacity and broadens their ability to support small businesses and charity directors.

Collectively, we can support business with a range of one-off and ongoing projects and tasks to fully support our clients to grow with the convenience of only having one supplier invoice to pay, and one main point of contact.

View our services page to find out more about the other services By Your Side Business Support provides.

Our mission is to provide the processes and support that small business owners and charity directors need to achieve their ambitions.

  • Outsource the admin you don’t have time or enthusiasm for to people who do.

  • Delegate the work you’re looking to get off your task list to people who specialise in it.

  • Bring in dedicated resource to support you with a specific project or one-off, or ad-hoc task.

If that sounds like something you’re looking for…