HR Services

Outsourced Human Resource Service

BDO can administer your HR function externally.  You will benefit from our team of highly experienced HR professionals with expertise in specific areas.  We can provide a dedicated member of our team at your location on a regular basis and be available at other times by phone/email when not on site.  This can be arranged on an “hours per week” basis and for a specific duration.

Supporting your existing Human Resource function

We can provide services to support your existing HR function, giving access to a broader range of skills and experience for particular HR issues e.g. dealing with dispute resolution.  This can be provided on a project or hourly basis.

HR Projects

BDO Gisborne HR services can be engaged for special projects e.g. recruitment, managing  performance issues, conducting management training or one-on-one coaching, restructuring and re-modelling your business.

 

Restructuring – organisational or team

  • In today’s environment, organisations are under increasing pressure to gain and maintain a competitive edge, reduce costs and improve productivity.  Employers often need to plan, prepare and manage restructuring and reorganisation, potential redundancies, mergers and business transfers.  We can provide
  • specialist assistance to guide, facilitate and manage restructuring.  We can work in partnership with you to ensure a successful and objective outcome.

Outplacement Services

When a business restructures, some redundancies may result.  How your business manages this process is important as it sends a message to remaining employees.   For employers, we provide affordable one-on-one outplacement services to support those whose roles have been disestablished.  In addition to assisting with the emotional aspect of displacement, our advisors can help manage the many other challenges faced during times of change e.g. personality profiling, CV preparation, interviewing techniques etc.

managing employment

Managing employment in any business is a fundamental process.  We can advise, guide and support you in ensuring compliance with relevant legislative and policy requirements, e.g. employment legislation Holidays Act.

 

Recruitment and Selection

We can manage recruitment of all levels of management from administrative and technical roles, supervisory and management to senior executive roles.

Our staff can assist your business with the following processes:

  • Identify key requirements of a person and position
  • Design relevant job descriptions
  • Design effective media plans and advertisements
  • Answer candidate queries, receive and acknowledge applications
  • Design competency based interview questions that best fit your organisation
  • Complete interviews
  • Review and liaise with candidates
  • Provide profiling tools and candidate assessments to aid selection
  • Analyse and feedback assessment results
  • Prepare and send candidate response letters
  • Reference check

and ensure a fair and objective process

 

Profiling Tools and Candidate Assessment

Candidate profiling increases the likelihood of good appointment decisions.  We use a range of profiling tools to understand the behaviour of candidates and their suitability to a particular role and working environment.

DISC – Personal Insights Profile

The D.I.S.C. Personal Insights profile is a powerful tool which can help you understand behaviour of candidates.  The tool helps to identify workplace behaviours and eliminates some of the guesswork from the recruitment process.  Strengths and potential challenges unique to each candidate are also highlighted. 

Employment Administration

Employment Agreements

We can ease the burden of the minefield that is employment legislation.  Have us review your current agreement or design a standard employment agreement for you that can be used for all staff that is professional, robust and meets legal requirements.

 

Job Descriptions

We work with you to develop effective and meaningful job descriptions to clarify responsibilities and performance indicators for positions within your company:

  • For existing employees to measure against performance
  • For potential employees to communicate the details of a new position.

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    Person Specifications

    BDO work to ascertain and accurately record the type of person that is required, the essential and preferred skills and experience and qualifications required to perform in a role.  This sets the foundations for selecting the right person with the right qualities.

     

    Policies and Procedures

    We can facilitate the documenting of policies and procedures relevant to your company to set out how things are done to ensure consistent practice and fair application.

     

    Standard Forms

    Standardisation can make things easier and having standard forms for repetitive processes ensure standard practice and assists with the accurate collection of information.  Our advisors will capture the important points and format into a document that is clear and easy to understand and follow.

Performance Management

We can help you set up a performance management system to:

  • maximise the potential of your employees by identifying performance measurement criteria
  • conduct performance appraisals
  • provide guidance to managers when dealing with unacceptable performance situations.

Management Development

We are also able to tailor specific programmes for management training and development within your business.  A training needs analysis is prepared to determine existing competencies, performance skills and capability gaps to develop a programme to meet these needs.

 

Strategic HR

We can assist with the following:

Management Coaching - align HR strategies with business objectives to ensure the development of a team to drive the improvement of business performance.

Team Building - includes personality test implementation and team building workshops.

Change Management - implementing plans to achieve change in the workplace and train managers to guide them through the change process.