Video 1, Nora Jenkins Townson:
“Hi there, my name is Nora and I’m the founder at Bright + Early. Thank you so much for checking out our job posting. In addition to writing out the job description, we also wanted to include a few videos so you can get to know the role and our team a little bit better. I’m gonna take you through a general introduction, and later Trisha will walk you through what a day in the life at Bright + Early is like.
Bright + Early is a really modern HR consultancy, and we partner with organizations that want to be great places to work. So, in practice, we do this by combining those best HR practices with some design thinking and then a dash of each organization’s unique culture. We build every single step of the employee journey so everything from really inclusive recruiting programs, really thoughtfully designed onboarding, equitable compensation, and everything in between. For a lot of our partners, we also act as an embedded advisor which means we do some employee relations and some manager coaching as well. Our clients range everywhere from really innovative tech startups to creative and design leaders, all the way to nonprofits and other changemakers.
As a consultant on our team, you’ll work really closely with a few different organizations. Usually you’ll start by doing a discovery process and learning about the organization and what makes it tick. And, using that to create their own unique HR roadmap, which you will then build out with the support of our team. Speaking of support, there’s a lot of resources, there’s a lot of best practices, and we work very collaboratively, so you’re definitely not alone.
As a consultant on our team, you’ll also be involved in building our own culture. So, we really like to practice what we preach and we are continuously innovating on building our own best place to work for ourselves. If you’re a builder that’s really hoping to join an innovative and collaborative team in the HR space, Bright + Early might be the right team for you.”
Video 2, Trisha Neogi
“Hi there, my name is Trisha Neogi, and I'm a Senior Consultant and Compensation Lead at Bright + Early. One of my favourite questions I get asked is, Trisha, what do you do? And to that I say, I'm a consultant. So who knows what I do? Just kidding, at Bright + Early, we know what we do. And in terms of what we do, we work with some really, really interesting and cool clients across Canada, US, and globally distributed thanks to the world of remote work!
We get to work with are teams who really care about building progressive places to work, but need some support in doing it, whether they don't have anything in place and they're starting from scratch, which is really, really fun for us to build, or they have an existing HR or operations team that want to build on specific projects. As the Compensation Lead, I work teams who want to design equitable and sometimes transformative pay. Sometimes we get to be really creative in designing some pretty unique processes. And that's just one aspect of the job.
The other aspect is collaborating with the lovely team members at Bright + Early. Each of us has our own client roster where we're the main contact for that client. But what makes this special is that we all come together in the background and collaborate together with all of our client work. So once again, my area of specialization is compensation, but we have a policy expert, we have DEI specialists, and conflict specialists. We all collaborate and jam together on delivering that really perfect and custom piece of work for the client. And we all get to learn from each other, which is one of my favourite parts of the job. I've been up right in early for almost five years now, and it's still the best part of the job.
The learning opportunity you get, regardless of where you are in your career, is incredible because I get to learn compensation, career, performance, policy, coaching, advocacy, all of these different things that I likely wouldn't have been able to do if I was a solo practitioner in an internal team. So that's been super rewarding, but in terms of other aspects we get to work on, we get to deliver some really cool and custom. trainings, we get to work with interesting problems and challenges. So for example, how do you design an equitable but completely flat organization? Can it even be done? How do you do compensation when teams are completely strapped of cash, but they really believe in paying equitably and they can't afford to pay market average? How do you design that? Or how do you create really engaging and safe policies that advocate for anti-oppression and justice while making sure that employees really understand their rights and the company is protected.
Those are some of the things that we get to work with on the team at Bright + Early and what your job might look like day to day. So it's really, really engaging and dynamic as a consultant would say.”