Outside HR for small business, without a full-time HR hire

What Vesk HR will do for your business

This is what we plan to offer, not a service you can buy today. A bad hire costs months and money, and in a small business the owner pays for it with their own time.

• Recruiting: the job profile, the posting, candidate screening and a short list you decide from.
• Onboarding: a clear 30-day plan for every new person.
• Employee files and benefits: one organized record per person, with vacation and leave tracked in one place. Payroll itself stays with your payroll provider.
• Reviews and performance: one performance conversation per person, with a format and dates, so it does not depend on someone remembering.
• Roles, pay ranges and policies: job descriptions, what the market pays, and a short plain-language handbook adjusted to your province's employment standards.

Employment rules change by province. Vesk HR prepares and organizes; it does not give legal advice, and anything that needs a lawyer or payroll provider goes to yours.

Hiring with fractional HR: how it would work and what it does not promise

We do not promise a hiring date or that the person will stay: both depend on the market and your offer. We do promise that the process is written down and visible in the platform.

1. 1
   Profile and pay

   We define with you what the person does, what they need to know and which pay range is competitive.

2. 2
   Posting

   We write the opening and post it where the people you want are looking.

3. 3
   Screening

   We review applications and run short conversations so that only people who fit the profile move on.

4. 4
   Short list

   You get a few people with clear notes. The decision to hire is yours.

What small businesses neglect most in HR

Onboarding, employee files, written policies and regular reviews are the first things to slip when the owner is busy. None of them takes someone all day, but each one needs somebody to keep the dates and the paper trail.

That steady, light work is what outside HR would take on. Employment standards differ by province, so check with your lawyer or payroll provider which rules apply to you.

When outside HR fits, and when to hire

Outside HR fits when you hire a few times a year, employee files live in scattered folders and nobody watches the dates that matter. It is steady but light work that does not justify a full salary.

A full-time HR hire makes sense when you bring people in every month, run several teams or need someone looking after staff every day. There, daily presence matters more than the saving. Decisions about your people stay yours in both cases.

How HR would work on tokens

Vesk HR would use the model of Software and Marketing. Today's plans are Starter (8 tokens a month), Growth (20) and Scale (40). Each task would have a fixed size in tokens, quoted before work starts, with a monthly meeting with the senior lead and everything visible in the platform.

HR task sizes and prices do not exist yet and we won't invent them. The plan is to use the same monthly plans, with unused tokens rolling over while your membership is active. The Gold plan, from $1,470 CAD plus tax a month, spreads tokens across departments.

What you can do today

If you track time off or employee files in spreadsheets, Vesk Software can organize them now:

Totals count the 8 bonus tokens of the first month. Vesk Marketing is in early access and can help with your employer brand and job posts.

Join the waitlist

Leave your details in the waitlist form on this page and we'll tell you when HR opens. If something can't wait, book a 30-minute call.