About Hays
Hays is a global leader in specialist recruitment, placing professional candidates in permanent, temporary and interim positions. With over 8,900 staff in 391 offices across 27 countries, last year we placed 68,000 people in permanent jobs, and each week paid 46,000 temporary workers.
The UK’s largest listed recruitment group
Hays is the largest publicly listed recruitment group in the UK, and is a FTSE 250 support services listed company. The table below illustrates the key financial results.
About Hays
| Year ended 30 June |
2007 |
2006 |
Growth |
| Net Fees |
£633.6m |
£538.2m |
+18% |
| Profit from Continuing Activities |
£216.1m |
£193.0m |
+12% |
| Group Profit before Tax |
£211.7m |
£192.5m |
+10% |
| Dividend per share (pence) |
5.00p |
4.35p |
+15% |
| Basic Earnings per share (pence) |
10.19p |
8.69p |
+17% |
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How we do it
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.
How we communicate with our customers
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
Which sectors we serve
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:
- Hays Accountancy & Finance
- Hays Banking
- Hays Financial Services
- Hays Insurance
- Hays Risk & Compliance
- Hays Senior Finance
- Hays Taxation
We also specialise in professional sectors through:
- Hays Contact Centres
- Hays Company Secretarial
- Hays Creative & Agency
- Hays Education
- Hays Executive
- Hays Healthcare
- Hays Human Resources
- Hays Information Technology
- Hays Legal
- Hays Marketing
- Hays Office Support
- Hays Purchasing & Supply
- Hays Retail
- Hays Sales
- Hays Secretarial
- Hays Social Care
- Hays Telecoms
Technical disciplines are covered by business units:
- Hays Architecture
- Hays Building Services
- Hays Construction
- Hays Construction & Property
- Hays Consulting Engineering
- Hays Engineering
- Hays Facilities Management
- Hays Property & Surveying
- Hays Trades & Labour
Within many of the above sectors, we also have teams dedicated to recruitment in Public Services, Executive, International and Voluntary & Not-for-Profit recruitment.
Where we are
Our largest market is that of the United Kingdom and Ireland. This market accounts for 70% of the net fees for the Group. We have over 230 offices in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Our business in Continental Europe and Canada has been growing rapidly. We now operate in 14 countries in the region and have recently opened a new operation in Italy.
We are also in Dubai and within the past year acquired a specialist recruitment business in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong, with offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
The growth of our business in Australia and New Zealand has been phenomenal and we now operate from 28 offices and 145 business units throughout the region.
Our environment responsibility
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.
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