People Office
Fill roles faster and keep the people you hire
The Amanex People Office fixes hiring, onboarding, pay and retention for schools, colleges, nonprofits and care providers. We find where your hiring process loses time and candidates, fix it, and leave it running so roles get filled in days, not months.
Sound familiar?
Good candidates go elsewhere before you call them back
You’ve had the same openings posted for months. Applications sit in a queue, references wait on one person, and offers go out after a strong candidate has already said yes somewhere else. New hires start without a laptop, a login or a clear first week, and some are gone by spring.
None of this is a failure of effort. The people who would fix the process are busy running it every day.
What the People Office covers
Four parts of the work, one office
Hiring
We map every step from posting to signed offer, find where candidates wait and drop out, and redesign the handoffs so offers go out while candidates are still interested.
Days to hireOffer acceptance
Onboarding
A first week that’s ready before the new hire arrives: accounts, paperwork, clearances and a person who owns the welcome.
First-year turnover
Pay
Classification and compensation work that tells you where your pay sits against the market and what each option would cost.
Pay position against the market
Retention
We look at who leaves, when and why, using your own records, and fix the causes you control. We also help set up an HR business partner model, so the people function works alongside your leaders on staffing decisions.
First-year turnover
Pay you can defend
Classification and compensation studies built from evidence
When a board or a union asks why a role is paid what it is, you need an answer with sources. Our studies match jobs on what people actually do, compare you to a panel of peer employers chosen for good reasons, and trace every figure to a cited document. Classification and compensation studies elsewhere commonly take months. We deliver on your timeline.
Where this comes from
Built by someone who ran hiring in a large district
Amanex is led by Edwine Michel, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and former Director of Recruitment and Retention in the nation’s 10th-largest school district. There he led a Lean Six Sigma hiring project targeting 10 days or less to fill a role, and the work was presented to peer districts nationally at the Council of the Great City Schools in 2020.
Since 2023, a large metro Atlanta school district has brought us back for six consecutive engagements. That work included standard operating procedures for core HR processes, Lean Six Sigma training that certified fifteen Yellow Belts on its HR council, and a classification and market study delivered on the district’s timeline.
How we work
Two weeks to see where hiring breaks
Diagnose (about two weeks)
We trace how hiring, onboarding or pay decisions actually flow today, using your own records, and show where they break and what it costs in dollars and hours.
Fix (4 to 12 weeks)
We do the work: clear the hiring backlog, redesign the process and get it running.
Sustain (optional)
Your staff get simple procedures and short training, or we match you with a vetted specialist from our network. We stay on as the quality check with a monthly scorecard.
Many clients come to us for a moment, like a hiring push before the school year starts. Fixed fees, agreed up front.
Common questions
Questions about the People Office
Do you replace our People Office staff?
No. Your staff keep doing the work only they can do, and we take on the redesign and the backlog. When the fix is in place, we hand it back with simple procedures, or match you with a specialist from our network if you’d rather not staff it.
Is this a payroll or benefits outsourcing service?
No. We don’t run payroll or administer benefits. We fix how hiring, onboarding, pay decisions and retention work, then leave the improved process running.
How fast can you help with a hiring push before the year starts?
A Diagnose takes about two weeks, and a Fix runs 4 to 12 weeks. If your deadline is close, tell us on the first call and we’ll say honestly what can be done in the time you have.
What data do you need from us?
Mostly records you already keep: postings, applicant and hire dates, offer records, separations and your pay plan. We work from your own data and handle it under your team’s direct supervision. Your information is never used to train anyone’s models.
Can you help us decide whether a role is paid at the right grade?
Yes. That’s what a classification study answers. We compare the role’s actual duties to matched jobs at peer employers and give you the market position, the cost of each option and our recommendation.
How do public agencies and nonprofits pay for this?
Fixed fees, agreed up front. We work with procurement for public agencies, and many funders will cover our work as capacity building for nonprofits.
Tell us which roles you can’t fill.
In 30 minutes we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help, and what a Diagnose would show.
