Featured Reports

New insights available: Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends Guide 2025

This year’s Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends guide deep dives into the workplace challenges and opportunities impacting both employers and employees.

Access our digital guide to discover the findings from our research of almost 11,000 professionals, including what employees really want from their employer, how to attract and retain talent and what trends are most likely to impact your workplace.

We’ve also recently added our Employment Trends – 2025 Spring Update, to provide you with up-to-date insights about the current employment market.

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RPO Playbook: Realise your potential for smarter, more efficient hiring

Facing recruitment challenges? Whether it's ongoing issues, high-volume hiring, or project-based needs, our guide provides the essential insights to help you make informed decisions about Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).

In the guide, we'll explore:

• What RPO involves and how it works
• Who RPO benefits and how
• The different RPO models available
• How to select the right RPO provider

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Managed Service Programmes (MSP) Guide: Optimise your contingent workforce

Our in-depth MSP guide, tailored around a unique core value framework, provides flexible solutions for maximising the potential of your contingent workforce while mitigating risk.

Explore challenges such as:

• Poor integration with existing systems
• Inability to source the necessary skills
• Clouded workforce visibility
• Complex regulations and contingent labour laws
• Consolidating and analysing data from disparate sources

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Beyond MSP: Moving towards a Total Workforce Model

Discover how leading organisations are breaking down barriers between permanent and contingent workers to create a unified, efficient workforce.

Our comprehensive guide provides strategic insights for workforce and project planning and best practices for optimising your technology stack.

Our Beyond MSP Guide includes:

• Workforce and project planning insights
• Tips for harmonising a wider set of sourcing methods
• Overview of Services Procurement and SOW agreements
• How to integrate resources quickly and compliantly

• Download now to evolve your MSP

The Workforce of the Future: Navigating the skills disruption

Our new Workforce of the Future report is available now, and contains the insights you need to bridge the skills gap effectively.

Download it now to discover the following:

• The availability of skills for different industries
• Locations with the most promising talent pipelines
• Emerging talent networks to watch out for in the future
• Actionable advice for leveraging our insights

• Address your skills gaps

How strategic spending can make public sector budgets work harder

Discover a more strategic approach to public sector workforce management by downloading our whitepaper today.

Download today to discover:

• A rundown of the roadblocks the sector faces when it comes to workforce management
• Exclusive data insights from over 3,000 public sector professionals
• Strategic recommendations for making your recruitment budgets work harder and go further
   

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Unlock your guide to securing diverse talent

61% of professionals say they actively look for an organisation’s DE&I policy when researching a potential employer – are organisations doing enough to promote their diversity efforts? 

The answers to this and more can be found in Hays’ 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report, now available for you to access. 

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What Workers Want 2024:

What Workers Want When Applying for Jobs report

Our highly anticipated 2024 What Workers Want report is now available for you to access. Discover what almost 11,900 professionals have to say about what makes them more likely to apply for a job as well as what deters them.

You’ll also find out what matters most to different age groups when applying for jobs, the impact of AI on recruitment and how to gather more diversity data during the application process to further your DE&I initiatives. 

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