Hire Smart. Stay Compliant. Build a Brilliant Team.

Download your Essential Hiring Checklist with everything you need to make your next hire confidently and legally (without risking an employment tribunal).

What you get…

  • A step-by-step SME-friendly hiring checklist

  • Key documents and actions to avoid costly mistakes

  • A clear process to protect your business and support your new hire

    BONUS: Early invite to our Hiring Effectively Workshop, packed with practical tools + templates

Hiring without this can cost you:

  • Wasted time on the wrong candidate

  • Costly employment disputes

  • Damage to your reputation and team culture

    That’s why I created this checklist – to help founders and managers hire right from day one

Hi, I’m Melanie Folkes-Mayers

I specialise in taking the overwhelm out of hiring, developing and managing brilliant team members, by giving you the tools to lead with confidence (and without employment tribunal dates).

WHY I DO IT: I believe that you cannot build a legacy business without investing in building effective teams. The heart of every business is its staff and so we need to be proactive about how we recruit, motivate and develop our teams, enabling us all to be our very best.

HOW I DO IT: I use my HR expertise to help proactive leaders to recruit, manage and develop excellent teams so that their business can achieve astronomical growth.

As a fractional HR Director, I provide strategic & operational support, deliver in-house & online training programs, speak at events & provide HR documentation & HR strategies to enable leaders & entrepreneurs to develop their teams and grow their businesses.

WHY IT WORKS: Years of HR and industry knowledge mean we provide tailored HR solutions to help our clients recruit, manage & develop excellent teams & develop awesome leaders to take their business to the next level.

  • Founder of Eden Mayers HR, An HR Consultant & Leadership Coach with 20+ years’ experience helping UK SMEs stay legally compliant and people-focused.

  • Eden Mayers (HR) Consulting gave us excellent advice and practical options when we were tackling a range of difficult issues: from restructuring our staff team, carrying out a disciplinary process, a safeguarding investigation and rapid recruitment

    Elizabeth, Director, OffiCreche

  • Setting up a new enterprise from scratch isn’t easy, Eden Mayers (HR) Consulting made sure I had the right employee contracts, policies and processes set up from day one. They are also available to me through their retained service for ad-hoc advice and guidance, which I’ve found invaluable.

    Susan, ODTA

  • Eden Mayers HR have been extremely accessible and approachable, providing us with a professional service. Mel has provided us with quality, realistic and easy to implement advice. This resource has been invaluable in which we thoroughly recommend.

    Amanda Smith, Childcare Solutions