Why choose an HR consultant from BambooHR?
Where could you use experienced help?
Compensation
Few decisions affect your people more than how you pay them. An HR consultant can help you set pay that's fair, competitive, and easy to explain, whether you're talking to leadership or to the employees the numbers affect.
- Benchmark against the market: Know where your pay actually lands before a candidate or an employee tells you.
- Build the structure: Salary bands, ranges, and progression that survive a growth year.
- Defend the decision: Your consultant helps you explain the logic to leadership and to the people the numbers affect.
Stay ahead of compliance
You rarely find a compliance gap on your own time. It’s often when an employee asks, an auditor calls, or someone has already acted on the wrong policy that you spot the issue. An HR consultant can find and fix compliance issues before they blow up.
- Multi-state reviews: Every state you employ in, checked against what's required there now.
- Handbook and policy audits: Make sure what's written matches what's actually enforced.
- A standing cadence: Reviews scheduled in advance, not triggered by a surprise.
Build manager capability
Every situation a manager can't handle lands on your calendar. The fix isn't more of your time, it's managers who have the skills and knowledge they need to handle issues and keep things from escalating.
- Manager training: Performance conversations, feedback, and employee relations, taught as skills.
- Leadership development: Build a deeper bench before you need it.
- Change adoption: Roll out new policies and processes in a way that actually sticks.
Plan for growth before it arrives
Hasty org decisions made in a hiring crunch are the kind you spend the next two years undoing. With an experienced consultant who’s been there before, you’ll be able to do the work before the growth, when it’s cheaper and you have time to think big decisions through.
- Workforce planning: Model the headcount and roles the next stage actually requires.
- Org design: Build a structure with clear reporting lines and team sizes you can isupport as you grow.
- Talent strategy: Decide what to hire for, what to develop, and what can wait.
Keep the system current
Most accounts are still configured for the company that set them up. Bring in someone who can help you retune your processes for the new locations, new policies, and new headcount that arrived after setup.
- Workflow design: Approvals and processes rebuilt around how the business runs now.
- Custom reporting: The reports leadership keeps asking for, built once and built right.
- Ongoing health checks: A standing review that catches configuration drift before it costs you data quality.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
A BambooHR employee, not a contractor or an outside firm.
Our consultants average more than 10 years in HR and bring professional certifications, advanced degrees, and firsthand knowledge of the platform you already run on. No ramp-up, and no headcount to add.
HOW THEY HELP
Strategy built within the system
Most consultants can't touch the platform they're advising on, so you end up holding a plan with no one to execute it. Ours can. We bring the judgment for the decisions that matter most, then help build the result into the account your team uses every day.
Hear it from HR teams like yours
"I've been through my share of system implementations, but the consulting support from BambooHR stood out. They guided us through every step and tailored benefits administration to our workforce. It's been a win for our HR team and our employees."
Stephen Schwartz
Head of Human Resources | Frontier Railroad Services
“The HR Consulting team trained our supervisors on how to review and approve requests, including employment law considerations across multiple states. Now the work is shared, and supervisors are more in the loop on their teams’ time off.”
Kristie Steele
Senior Human Resources Manager | Forth
How we work with you
HR is hard. We make it easier at every step.
Our involvement deepens as the work gets more specific to you.
STEP 1
DISCOVERY
You’ll meet with a specialist to discuss your HR challenges and objectives. We'll dig into the specific needs, materials, and processes required for success.
STEP 2
ANALYSIS & PLANNING
We'll uncover key areas of risk and opportunity, then craft a step-by-step roadmap together with attention to reaching each objective on your timeline.
STEP 3
ONGOING PARTNERSHIP
We’ll work with you every step of the way, providing ongoing support and expert guidance to ensure you make informed decisions for your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from Customer Support?
Support answers questions about how BambooHR works and is included with your account. With HR Consulting you get a dedicated expert who takes on the judgment calls and the work itself. Support helps you use the product. A consultant helps you decide what to do, then does it with you.
Will this replace our HR team?
No. You keep ownership, approval, and full visibility over everything. Your consultant works alongside your team, taking on the decisions you'd rather not make alone and the work you don't have capacity for.
Do I have to commit to an ongoing engagement?
HR Consulting works as an ongoing partnership, though it can start with a single diagnostic. Your specialist will recommend the right shape during discovery, and you approve the scope before work begins.
What happens after I reach out?
You'll talk with a specialist about your challenges and objectives, then map out the areas of risk and opportunity together and agree on a plan before the work starts. You approve the scope first.
Is HR Consulting by BambooHR available to my company?
Yes. HR Consulting is available to all BambooHR customers. Expert Services also includes Managed Payroll (for US-based employees) and Technical Services for migrations, account merges, and custom reporting. Use one or combine them. See all Expert Services.
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You don’t have to solve your toughest HR challenges on your own. Let’s make it easier together.