Running an enterprise-grade hiring process for a lean professional services team

A lean UK professional services team needed a hiring process that looked and felt enterprise-grade, without the headcount to run an in-house HR department.

• Team size: the team was too lean to run HR in-house alongside its own work.
• Standard: hiring still needed to meet an enterprise-grade bar despite the team’s size.
• Flexibility: the team needed HR support that scoped to what it needed, not a fixed package.

Alliance covered the team’s HR function from resume sourcing to full HR support, scoped to what it actually needed, so hiring and HR admin no longer fell to whoever on the team had time.

The same four-step process we use for every Alliance engagement applied to the hiring work it covered. The team ran a hiring process that looked and felt enterprise-grade without building its own HR department.

• Hiring and HR admin no longer fell to whoever on the team had time.
• The team ran an enterprise-grade hiring process without an in-house HR department.
• HR support stayed scoped to what the team actually needed.

This is a representative scenario, not a named case study. Client details are withheld to protect confidentiality.