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About Hays UK: Working for your tomorrow
What sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding, and ability to innovate for our customers. By providing advice, insights, and expertise on today's issues in the fast-paced world of work, you can rely on us to deliver today and help you prepare for tomorrow.
"People are at the heart of what we do. We partner with organisations across the UK to understand their unique business opportunities, providing bespoke talent and workforce solutions that leverage our local understanding and global scale."
Since Hays was founded in 1968, we’ve placed people at the heart of everything we do - building lasting partnerships with businesses and professionals across the UK. Our success is built on decades of experience and a deep understanding of regional job markets. We began with core specialisms in accountancy, finance, and construction, and have since grown our expertise to cover technology, engineering, life sciences, HR, procurement, business support, legal and marketing. With offices in key cities including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, and Edinburgh, we combine nationwide coverage with local market knowledge to deliver tailored recruitment solutions.
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It’s our values that ensure we’re always doing right by our customers, colleagues and society at large. We simply wouldn’t be where we are today without them – they guide our decisions, define our culture, and inspire us to keep improving.
Partnerships power what we can achieve. We take the time to listen and understand people’s needs and aspirations so that we can meet them. Collaboration and inclusivity are at the heart of our approach, creating solutions together, learning from each other and sharing our knowledge and experience. That’s what supports strong relationships and enables shared success.
Our knowledge and ambition are what drive us forward. We challenge ourselves and our customers by bringing open, inquisitive minds that consider every angle and never settle for the status quo. We see the big picture today while we build a long-term perspective of tomorrow that anticipates change and enables us to be confident and agile with our advice. That’s what makes us experts.
We always act in the best interests of our candidates, our clients, our communities and each other. There is always more than one solution, and we want to find the right one every time, because every person and situation is different. We stand by our commitments, we keep our promises, and we treat everyone with the respect they deserve. That’s what earns trust.
We've generated over £1m in social value!
Download our annual Social Impact Report for a full overview of our social and environmental impact in the UK and Ireland.
Explore how we can power your growth
We know that finding the right role at the right time takes careful consideration. As lifelong career partners, we're with you every step of the way, offering our expertise, up-to-date career advice, connections, and training to help you achieve your goals.
Whether you're seeking a job for now, a career change, or aiming to climb the career ladder, we provide an unmatched wealth of opportunities across various industries and professions. With our insights, market-leading salary checker, and strong employer relationships, we bring you roles that challenge and excite you.
Whether you need people to evolve your company or leaders to drive transformation, we offer specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, including permanent, temporary, and contract hiring, executive search, interim appointments, and outsourced solutions like RPO, MSP, and Total Workforce Solutions.
We partner with organisations and individuals to provide the knowledge, expertise, and innovation needed for a holistic workforce strategy. Your success is at the heart of our business.
Driving climate action and ambition for Net Zero
Hays PLC is committed to reduction targets (across scope 1, 2 and 3) and has launched multiple initiatives to deliver on this commitment.
You can find out more about our carbon reduction plan and our commitment to net zero on our Hays PLC site:
Hays is a proud winner of the Silver award for 'Support Services (People and Places)' as part of Britain's Most Admired Companies 2024.
Hays ranked as the only specialist recruiter in the top three and beating our Bronze award from last year.
Britain's Most Admired Companies study is the longest-running annual survey of corporate reputation in the UK with data across the FTSE 100 and 250 going back 33 years.
We were delighted to win the ‘Creating Capability’ award category at the Social Value Awards 2024, recognising the exciting work we’ve been doing as part of Project Flourish, created in collaboration with EveryYouth – helping to overcome barriers to work for young people facing homelessness.
The award acknowledges our work in building skills and capacity to deliver social impact by broadening the knowledge of our internal teams, and by collaborating with, supporting and upskilling charitable organisations, potential employers and wider partner organisations.
Hays have partnered with JobsAware and are committed to fairness and transparency in the labour market. For free help and advice please visit the JobsAware website.
Be part of our team
At Hays, we believe in being long-term partners to our people as well as our customers. Hear stories from our team to learn more about a career at Hays. Create your tomorrow.
