Giving a startup full HR coverage without building an in-house HR department

A UK startup needed HR support that looked and felt enterprise-grade, without the cost of building an in-house HR department at its stage.

• Scope: the startup needed HR covered end to end, not just one piece of it.
• Cost: an in-house HR department was a fixed cost the startup wasn’t ready to commit to.
• Standard: HR support needed to look and feel enterprise-grade despite the startup’s size.

Alliance scoped HR support to exactly what the startup needed, from resume sourcing through to full HR coverage, so it ran a hiring process that looked and felt enterprise-grade without hiring its own HR team.

The same four-step process we use for every Alliance engagement applied to the HR work it covered. Support scaled with the startup as it grew, rather than locking it into a fixed in-house headcount from day one.

• The startup ran an enterprise-grade hiring process without an in-house HR department.
• HR support was scoped to exactly what it needed, from sourcing to full coverage.
• The startup avoided the fixed cost of building an HR team before it was ready.

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