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Productive relationships between HR and recruitment agencies

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The aim of this guide is to identify and illustrate productive relationships between HR and recruitment agencies. It demonstrates how HR and agencies in different sectors can work together collaboratively and explore where value can be best added in the future. For some, good practice is defined by a level of achievement, for others in how far they have progressed on a journey to reaching their goal.

The aim of this guide is to identify and illustrate productive relationships between HR and recruitment agencies. It demonstrates how HR and agencies in different sectors can work together collaboratively and explore where value can be best added in the future. For some, good practice is defined by a level of achievement, for others in how far they have progressed on a journey to reaching their goal.

According to the CIPD’s 2008 Recruitment, Retention and Turnover survey, 78% of employers in 2007 used recruitment agencies to attract and recruit employees. But historically relationships between employers and recruitment agencies have been marred by a range of pressures and degrees of mistrust from both sides. At the same time, the employer–agency relationship has traditionally been one based on best value and low cost, with contractual decisions made predominantly on this basis.

Please download the full report here. We recommend page 32 (our case study) for an overview of how we do business and some examples of how relationships can be strengthened with HR departments.