Hays is a global leader in specialist recruitment, placing professional candidates in permanent, temporary and interim positions. With over 6,644 staff in 325 offices across 28 countries, last year we placed 80,000 people in permanent jobs, and around 300,000 into temporary assignments.
Hays is the largest publicly listed recruitment group in the UK, and is a FTSE 250 support services listed company. To find our more about Hays plc click here to visit our Investor Relations website.
We share ideas, knowledge and experience across businesses and territories to deliver outstanding results and we invest heavily in equipping our staff with the specialist skills necessary to perform to the highest standards, while developing their careers.
Our office network ensures we’re physically present in all the places where we do business, ensuring clients and candidates receive the highest levels of real service. Our front and back offices are professionally administered by dedicated teams of support staff in IT, legal, finance, HR and marketing.
We commit substantial budgets to candidate and client marketing, using direct mail, PR, press advertising, internet advertising and e-marketing. Our websites attract 750,000 visitors each month and over 15,000 job applications each week, with more than 55,000 live jobs globally available at any time
The Hays business model is based upon delivering specialist recruitment knowledge and service to our customers. We have around 25 specialist business units as follows:
Our financial recruitment units include:
We also specialise in professional sectors through:
Technical disciplines are covered by business units:
Within many of the above sectors, we also have teams dedicated to recruitment in Public Services, Executive, International and Voluntary & Not-for-Profit recruitment.
Our largest market is that of the United Kingdom & Ireland. This market accounts for 50% of the net fees for the Group. We have 255 offices in the United Kingdom & Ireland.
Our business in Continental Europe & Rest of World has been growing rapidly – it now accounts for 27% of net fees. We now operate in 19 countries in the region and have recently opened a new operation in India.
We continue to grow in Asia Pacific (which now accounts for 23% of net fees) and we now operate from 53 offices throughout the region and hold a market leading position in Australia.
Hays has a low adverse impact on the environment. We recognise the need to minimise the impact as much as possible and we have implemented various initiatives to achieve this aim. All Hays offices have recycle bins for waste paper.
Toner and printer cartridges are recycled with the proceeds being donated to the Lighthouse Club, one of the Company's chosen charities. The recycling of old mobile phones also benefits this charity.
To reduce the number of company vehicles, offices have pool cars for consultants to visit clients. Hays also encourages company car owners to choose fuel efficient vehicles to reduce emissions.
Throughout the business most staff operate from open plan offices, this reduces the square footage of offices, reducing the energy needed. Our layouts are designed to make operations efficient and encourage strong team development We believe that these and other initiatives make good commercial sense as well as being environmentally sound.
We are aware of the initiative to make companies Carbon Neutral, and we are working with Future Forests on our E Shareholder project. A tree will be planted for every shareholder who signs up, via www.shareview.co.uk, to receive all their future communications from Hays electronically. This includes future annual report and accounts and notice of meetings. This reduces the environmental impact and reduces the Company's costs.
Hays is keen to improve its operational efficiency and enhance customer service whilst introducing processes that are environmentally friendly.
We have recently introduced digital scanning of timesheets along with web based time sheet entry. We digitally store candidate records for use across the whole business and are investigating electronic billing of clients where possible.
For information about Hays' charity partner, click here.