Syndeo helps put together the pieces of the scaling puzzle, so you can accelerate your company’s growth with less trial and error.

Many experienced business owners we talk to reflect on their journey and express a common sentiment: “If I had a PEO partner when I started my company, I could have put more time and energy into the profitable aspects of my business.”

Countless others wish they had decided to seek help sooner. In hindsight, they realize the draining time spent over the years on human resources could have been avoided. Managing HR tasks can significantly burden business owners who are focused on growth.

Syndeo offers HR solutions to help businesses looking to scale leverage a competitive advantage to streamline the growth process. While we can’t help with the business analysis of expansion, our HR team can pull wage statistics based on state or even specific cities to analyze the employee market potential. Getting your HR function organized early makes hiring and establishing your work culture more manageable and avoids missteps that may not align with your values. 

This article discusses how Syndeo helps remove the HR burden for our clients by clarifying their workforce needs, establishing intentional company cultures, and streamlining recruitment processes, all of which foster company growth. We aim to ensure your HR management is in place to ease company growth as you add new employees. 

For people unfamiliar with Syndeo, we offer a workforce planning system and an HR technology solution all in one.

Forecasting Your Workforce Needs.

If there’s one human resource management task that is both time-consuming and laborious for business owners and managers aiming to scale their business, it is the hiring process. Effective hiring is crucial for scaling businesses, but it requires significant effort, coordination, and expertise. Managing this process efficiently can help avoid costly mistakes, reduce turnover, and ensure the organization is staffed with capable, motivated individuals who can drive the business forward.

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Human Resources Market Analysis

One initial way Syndeo helps growth-oriented businesses expand is by conducting an HR market analysis of their potential expansion. We look at the costs of living in potential locations and compare them to current locations. On behalf of our clients, we conduct extensive reach to forecast the availability of laborers with the required specialty skills. We also create salary analyses based on location and qualifications and evaluate skills gaps that might prove challenging in the hiring process. Using all of these tools and analyses, we recommend strategies that help our clients gain a comprehensive picture of their expansion plans. 

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Innovative Applicant Tracking System‍

Once aware of market trends, our electronic applicant tracking system (ATS) helps organize and coordinate potential candidates, simplifying the overall hiring process. This integrated solution combines all the applications from multiple job boards, including Indeed.com, LinkedIn.com, and CareerBuilder.com, into a single database that our clients use to sort, filter, and manage candidates for each position. Additionally, it simplifies tracking candidates with particular skills or qualifications. 

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The ATS allows for narrowing down large numbers of applicants, so identifying the top choices is easy. It also allows our clients to automatically filter applicants they have met or interviewed and can transfer the candidate you choose to hire into your onboarding and pre-employment screening process with just a few clicks.

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Additionally, Syndeo also uses the ATS to:

• Tailor forms, interview questions, and reporting options.
• Set up and begin posting open jobs within minutes.
• Customize the hiring process based on each unique position. 
• Provide an efficient new hire experience by seamless integration through the onboarding process.
• Allow clients to select which job boards they want to post their position to.
• Scale hiring needs of the business, adjusting pricing as needed (scaled back during slow season, ramped up during busy season).
• Integrate calendars (such as Outlook, Google, etc.) and schedule video interviews directly within the platform.

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These straightforward methods of simplifying the hiring process can save business owners and hiring managers loads of time and money.

Creating Your Workplace Culture for Day 1.

As an entrepreneur, starting a business with a hazy vision of how you want to be can create challenges further down the road. Sitting down with a Syndeo partner can help you see the fuller picture of establishing your company culture right out of the gate. ‍

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Up-to-date, Tailored Handbooks

While they may have caught glimpses during the hiring and interview process, your company handbook is potentially the first insightful and documented exposure of a new hire to the pulse of your company culture. Creating and updating a handbook is one of those business-running tasks that most business owners push to the back burner. 

At Syndeo, we can help establish your workplace culture in writing on day one through tailored employee handbooks and manuals. Created from scratch by our experienced team, these living documents are updated and revised as your company grows or as new HR laws are passed. These HR topics are ones that Syndeo tracks to ensure that our clients maintain compliance. One recent example is the Nursing Mother’s Act passed in 2022, requiring business owners to provide necessary break time and accommodations for nursing employees to express milk for their nursing child.

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Employee Benefits

Benefits are one of the first things potential employees consider when applying for new positions. Offering competitive benefits — like medical and dental coverage, extra-life packages, pet insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off, to name a few — reflects your company's culture and values. 

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Navigating various benefit options is daunting, even for an experienced business owner. It raises questions like:

• Are you honoring your people by giving them PTO to be with their families and away from work? 
• Do you offer work-life balance? 
• What kind of benefits are you affording to them that reflect who you are and your company culture? 

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Even if you don’t have a clear picture of how everything will work out, these types of conversations are beneficial for reframing your understanding from the outside in. Syndeo offers extensive research, resources, and policy options to help you master employee benefits. 

Foresight to Prepare the Foundation

Syndeo has solutions that can help lay a purposeful foundation to support future growth, particularly as it pertains to the people function of running a company. We specialize in making multi-state scaling feasible for businesses by expertly navigating the complexities of employment laws across different regions. Partnering with Syndeo can significantly amplify scaling efforts and ensure that businesses are well-prepared to meet the demands of expansion while minimizing legal risks and maintaining consistent HR practices. Syndeo’s expert team will ensure compliance with state-specific wage and hour laws, manage payroll taxes and reporting, and effectively communicate required state policies.

For start-ups or small businesses planning to scale, outsourcing HR from the beginning ensures comprehensive human resources management. Syndeo is an accessible and reliable partner to help you manage your growing workforce. With Syndeo's support and partnership, navigating difficult disciplinary conversations, nuanced complaints, and other forms of conflict, for example, becomes much easier.

Whether you're in the early stages of your business journey or looking to scale an established enterprise, Syndeo's suite of HR solutions provides the tools and support needed to streamline your processes, attract and retain top talent, and cultivate a robust company culture. By leveraging our expertise, you can sidestep the regret of delaying HR assistance and concentrate on your core business activities, confident that your HR needs are in capable hands. 

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Contact Syndeo today to talk about what scaling means for your HR needs — call (316) 630.9107.

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