Audit all HR policies, procedures and individual contractual terms ensuring each are compliant with updated legislation and best practice for their sector. An audit checklist is completed on all staff's terms and conditions. Assessment is made on how HR practices and structures such as absenteeism, sickness, discipline, grievances, harassment, etc. are managed. Advise gap analyses on proposed modifications as well as drafting or re-drafting precedents for best practice compliant HR management. These services are provided in Ireland and various European countries.

HR business partner role to retained clients to advise and implement HR policies such as working with and training managers to be HR compliant; HR precedents - drafting, modifying or setting up practices; advise on expatriation or non-EU citizens moving to Ireland and localisation procedures; ongoing people management advices or actions in recruitment, discipline, redundancy matters, etc.

Retained services would typically include the following:

• On-call HR support
• HR auditing and due diligence
• Advise on updated legislation and HR best practices
• Staff Handbook design and development
• HR practices, e.g., sickness and absenteeism management
• Recruitment and selection
• Retention
• Performance management
• Employee relations
• Independent dealings on issues such as harassment, discipline, grievances, etc
• Training and development

Our Career Wake-Up Call seminars includes a career reality check and waking-up the motivation, career specific psychometric tests which pinpoint good career choices for participants (delivered by an occupational psychologist), good CV writing, interview skills and advice for going about job searching.

Develop and manage a range of strategic human resource policies and procedures to support the business needs of various companies from small to large organisations to include recruiting and inducting HR managers.

Present best practice human resource management to managers such as dealing with absenteeism, handling disciplinary actions, communicating positive and negative feedback, interviewing techniques with proposed questions and templates, etc.

Devise competency and selection strategies from role analysis and job description stage to managing recruitment (usually through Internet recruitment), hosting interviews and managing the whole process through to appointment with appropriate validation checking of selected candidates.

Advise on career development and strategies towards assisting people to achieve their career aspirations. This can be either part of retained services to a client or as an external service to individuals.

Provide a third party mediation service in dealing with grievance and disciplinary matters.

Implement short to medium term HR support for companies who require specific or additional assistance on particular matters, for example, set up of HR function for a specific period, short term assessment of HR function with a view to hiring and inducting a HR manager for a company in line with their corporate policies and procedures, cover an incumbent's absence, specific project assistance, e.g., downsizing, recruitment and selection, etc. Interim HR management may be strategic, operational/hands-on or provide additional HR support.

Advise and take action on the implementation of good performance management systems (directly or indirectly) so that the way human effort is managed, cautioned where necessary, and developed encourages a company's ability to grow profitably and with the right people com pete ncies and motivation.

Advise and implement downsizing aimed at a core competence right-sized organisation. This has included both assisting and managing the selection of reduced roles by assessing work practices as required, manpower plans and fair procedures. Advise incumbents on career choices and providing guidance on the management of retained employees following a downsizing operation.

Carry out investigations for example, on bullying and harassment matters, either directly or indirectly by advising companies on what needs to be done to be fair, reasonable and informed before an organisation takes any action.

CA Consulting provides an impartial and independent service to hear appeals following a disciplinary sanction or related matter.