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Kerrie Canning
Co-Founder and Director

Hello, I’m Kerrie Canning and I co-founded HR Advice Online in 2011. We started HR Advice Online because we saw small business owners were often on their own, struggling to keep pace with changing employment laws and having to make employment decisions without a sounding board. Often, these small businesses didn’t have the right HR systems in place and weren’t adequately protected from difficult employees. We knew we could help.

Our first client is still a client to this day.   Since then, we’ve grown rapidly with a national client base of small businesses, membership organisations, franchise groups, and professional services firms across Australia.

Sally Garner - Director

In 2020, I was delighted to be joined by my business partner and co-owner, Sally Garner. Like me, Sally has an extensive background in HR and recruitment, with a special interest in health care. I have known Sally both personally and professionally for a long time and together, we make a knockout team!

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HR Advice Online

We are supported by our consulting team who are the friendly HR experts who look after our members. What we love about them is the care and interest they show in you, our clients, getting to know your businesses, employees, and thinking about your business, as if it were our own.

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure to help thousands of business owners throughout Australia protect their businesses and build productive, happy workplace cultures.

Whether you are hiring your first employee, growing your team and managing the day to day people requirements or restructuring and realigning your people to the business needs, HR Advice Online helps you every step of the way.  

For some it’s the foundation to establish the people processes and practices, for others it’s best practice HR to be an employer of choice.

Why Choose HR Advice Online?

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A Better Experience

Help is just a phone call away. Talk to someone you trust, who knows you and your business by name.

HR advice for small business membership and franchise groups
Act With Confidence
Use us as a sounding board so you’re confident to make the right decisions.
HR advice for small business membership and franchise groups
Right-Sized Advice
Get practical HR advice that is grounded in the reality of running a small business.
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Client Testimonials

HR Advice Online is trusted by businesses across Australia.

Kerrie at HR Advice Online provided excellent team training with Extended Disc. It was simple, easy to understand and was an amazing team building day! We learned about how the different behavioural styles work. Kerrie showed us how we identify the different styles and this has been pivotal in providing better communication and service to our various internal client groups. We now work so much better as a team!
Duncan PriceNational Manager,Talent Acquisition - Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd
Duncan Price
We teamed with HR Advice Online some 9 years ago Over the years we have received quality advice on a variety of HR matters, advice which has always being accurate and up to date HR Advice Online has given us enormous support in times when we’ve had no idea what to do next The online forms and guidance notes are priceless Thank you HR Advice Online’
Gary StrawDirector - Crystal Clear Ears
Gary Straw
We cannot speak highly enough of the help, advice and direction that we received from HR Advice Online. Having a quality HR Department and having them as part of that team is certainly a big part why we are very happy being part of the First National Team and will be for a good time to come.
Rene PompeDirector - First National Real Estate Golden Plains
Rene Pompe
Once again, HR Advice Online have assisted us with our HR enquiry. They are always helpful, professional and able to assist us with any issues we have.
Janine ThorpManager - First National Charles L. King
Janine Thorp
If I am ever in doubt regarding payroll or HR issues, I always send an email off to HR Advice Online team. I find them to be efficient and helpful with any concerns. Having them gives me peace of mind. I highly recommend that you reach out to the HR Advice Online team to support you and your business.
Cheryl CarltonGeneral Manager - First National Westwood
Cheryl Carlton
The HR Advice Online Consultants are very responsive to our queries. We appreciate them following up on additional information and coming back to us promptly.
Lisa JonesCEO - Ardoch Youth Foundation
Lisa Jones
We contacted HR Advise Online regarding an employee query. As always, they were onto it. They had a satisfactory answer back to us the same afternoon. What a great service for employers to use, we will be continuing to use them in the future. Very professional and great service.
Denis PeuckerGeneral Manager - Townshend Homes (Vic) Pty Ltd
Denis Peucker
I really appreciate that the feedback from HR Advice Online was easy to understand and made perfect sense for the situation I was asking about. It was also reassuring to know what the correct HR process was.
Keturah JonesCEO
Keturah Jones
Kerrie at HR Advice Online completed an Extended DISC workshop with our team at Cyber Safety Project. The workshop was insightful and enjoyed by our entire team. The conversations to follow were rich and reflective.
Trent RayCo-founder & Lead Educator - Cyber Safety Project
Trent Ray
Following suggestions and reviews for a position description which we created, we have a received amazing engagement from applicants, meaning we were able to interview and offer the job quickly.
Kim BattoFirst National Head Office
Kim Batto

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