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Welcome to Merit Employment Consultancy:

For over 25 years Merit has been providing a successful Employment Consultancy Service to businesses throughout the south east. This arm of the Merit group has developed from our strong recruitment and employment law background along with our ability to deliver to set targets.

The catalyst to Merit dedicating a specific division to Employment Consultancy came when one of our largest clients approach Merit to work in partnership in developing a recruitment and HR strategy for their business. As a large manufacturer with production facilities, supply chain & logistics, service & repair, customer service, finance and sales & marketing we certainly had a broad range of employment issues to cover. Reporting to the Director of Human Resources our project team was tasked at reviewing and advising on employment strategy along with the development of their HR function.

By using a combination of our in-house expertise and working with third party specialists we develop a range of employment strategies in order to successfully deliver a new streamlined efficient HR function, which delivered direct cost savings, increased the quality of employees and motivated the existing workforce.

Before taking on any project Merit Employment Consultancy will fully evaluate exactly what your target and aims consist of and then consultant on best practice techniques and advice on strategic direction. Our project team will then work on an implementation strategy using 360 degree project management software with set mile stones and review periods.

Our success comes from our people, who are true experts and operators - not word merchants and acronym Merlin’s.

Sectors we specialise within:

• Supply Chain
• Manufacturing & Engineering
• Services

How Merit Employment Consultancy can help your Business:

Our experience has shown that the single most important reason why organisations use consultants (70 per cent) is to gain access to specific skills not available internally and which are needed for a finite period of time in so much as it gives organisations the benefit of using experts for a fixed term and of course with a proven track record.

Merit Employment Consultancy has developed a network of specialists from a variety of industries and as such does not accept industry norms as the singular paradigm. We believe you deliver exceptional results by questioning conventional norms and pushing boundaries only then can you deliver multifaceted solutions.

This part of our business has grown rapidly over recent years and has proven to be most successful for:

• Accessing specialist skills for a finite period
• Buying in knowledge from which a consultancy has accumulated through working for different businesses sharing similar challenges
• When rapid change is required
• Changing organisational cultures
• Special investigations and audits
• Bringing in additional Management expertise for a finite period normally required for one off projects or fluctuations in volumes
• Making new legislation workable – for example Merit Consultancy has recently been engaged by a large Supply Chain Organisation to look at the implications of the pending AWR which comes into effect on the 1st October 2011.
• Special projects – Another one of our milestones was when we were asked to work with senior management to introduce Performance Management processes and procedures, implement meaningful appraisal schemes, through to checking the robustness of organisational structures.