HR Ready
Your outsourced and in-house HR team, for growing businesses. Award-winning HR consultancy, recruitment and training for leaders across Cambridge, East Anglia and the UK.
You didn't start your business to become the HR department. But every hire, difficult conversation and leaver lands on your desk, and nobody ever trained you for it. HR Ready is your outsourced and in-house HR team, for growing businesses.
You don't get one consultant. You get a team of HR, recruitment and training professionals, led by CIPD qualified HR consultants: a dedicated consultant who knows your business, a second person kept up to date so you have cover all year, and specialists behind them.
We work with leaders of growing businesses, particularly in technology, life sciences and professional services, to:
- put the compliance foundations in place: contracts, policies, right to work checks and probation
- handle difficult moments early, fairly and with a clear paper trail
- hire the right people first time
- build a culture and a team that runs without you in every decision We call it the 5C People System: Commerciality, Compliance, Culture, Capability and Continuity.
HR Ready has won business awards every year since 2022, including Leading HR Support Consultancy 2026 and Best HR Support Consultancy 2025 (SME News Business Elite Awards, Cambridgeshire), and we hold five-star Google reviews. We are based at the Bradfield Centre on Cambridge Science Park.
Not sure where your people risk sits? Take our free two-minute Employer Risk Check at employerriskcheck.scoreapp.com, or get a quote at hrready.co.uk.
Your people striving. Your business thriving.
Your outsourced and in-house HR team, for growing businesses.
Products and services
HR Support
HR Ready Ltd provides clients with personalised HR support every step of the way. From contracts of employment to employee retention, we are here to manage all your people needs.
Personalised HR support is a business fundamental to your success. We know this can be hard to come by when running your business.
Keeping up to date with legislation, handling compliance issues, while trying to ensure you recruit, manage and retain your people is a lot to think about and deal with, that’s why we have a team of HR consultants that take care of this for you, so you don’t have to worry.
If you are finding yourself spending an hour or two a week on people issues, that’s time and focus away from developing your business success. Think about the time lost in revenue due to your time and attention being diverted to focus on this. What would you do with that extra time back?
HR Toolkit
Are looking for a HR document system specifically designed for your small to medium sized business? By selecting a HR Toolkit plan that suits your business, you will have instant access to an online HR, you can’t live without. Full of HR resources such as documents, templates, policies and more. All are there to save you time and make your job easier on a day to day basis. For most people problems you may be dealing with, you will feel confident that you have a maintained and compliant Human Resources resource to hand. With regular updates and new material constantly being added, your HR Toolkit just gets better and better.
The benefits of The HR Toolkit in your business:
- Cost effective way to have up to date reliable documentation and advice when you need it
- Saving you time and money with easy to follow HR processes
- Written by HR experts giving you peace of mind
- All documentation is fully editable
- Giving you a full HR resource without the cost of a consultant
- Content updated regularly to ensure you stay abreast of any legislative changes
HR Mentoring
HR Mentoring is important if you want an HR function that adds value. Having a ‘go to person’ can make all the difference. By increasing capability through training, coaching and mentoring, we can reduce costs, increase efficiencies and ultimately add value to your business. HR is an enabler not a prohibitor.
The Benefits Of HR Mentoring
As the mentee you learn from my past mistakes so you can go from A-B.
- You can impact the business quickly knowing someone has been there and done that before.
- You have a confidant, if you need a sounding board you have it, with NO judgement.
- You will have a safe space to talk about your emotional v logical reasoning and the challenges you face.
- You will grow and develop the quickest you ever have done within HR. This is because it is specific to your needs, you are in the driving seat.
- You will see a return on your investment while becoming more focussed and motivated.
The list goes on and both the individual and business benefit from HR mentoring, it is a valuable investment.
Recruitment
Recruitment is more than a person fulfilling a job description, anyone can do a set of tasks, what is difficult is finding the right people to drive business growth and success, that's where we come in.
Gone are the days when you needed a set of tasks doing and you had 100 applicants for the job. Businesses and individuals want more from their careers and are expecting more from each other. This makes recruiting for us more exciting!
Not only are we looking for the right person with the right skill set for your business now, but also looking at what else they have to offer that may be useful to you in 2-5 years, growing your business. It works both ways and we work with you to understand your offering to the candidate and ways to improve your appeal to candidates, supporting you in hiring the right candidate and pipping your competition to the post. Good candidates do not stay on the market for long!
That is why we believe in a holistic approach to recruitment, we want to know about the business, life as an employee, the role, the perks, the challenges – warts and all. The reason is when we can immerse ourselves in your business and culture, we can communicate this easily to your perspective employee, enabling you to sell yourselves (without the hard sell) and in turn comfortably gaining buy-in from your perspective employee. It becomes so much easier.
As we offer HR and recruitment, we are proud to do things differently, it’s not just a role for us, it’s a career.
Training and Coaching
Training and Coaching is critical for personal and professional development as well as business success. Time is money, personal and professional development is an investment, that’s why we believe in offering bespoke training and coaching to meet the needs of the business and the individual.
It can be seen as a business expense, unproductive time in a business, that’s why we understand the driving force behind the need for training and coaching. Outcomes are important to us and you, it’s crucial the learning benefits the individual and business and has a return on investment.
If you are looking for bespoke training or perhaps you want something a little more general to begin with, we can support you with a range of different training courses, styles, and costs to match your current business requirements.
Take a look at our website for some of our training sessions we have available. This can range from e-learning to virtual or classroom-based training and coaching programmes. If you are looking for something specific that isn’t mentioned, then get in touch with us.
