Hays, the world’s leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
The business began its life in 1968, based in a small office in London with just a handful of employees. The company is now a FTSE 250 business, operating out of 250 offices, across 33 countries and with over 10,000 employees.
Alistair Cox, Hays CEO, commented, “This is such a proud moment for our business and it provides us the opportunity to reflect on our history and how much the business has changed in that time. From our beginnings as a small UK-based business, to the world’s largest specialist recruiter today, it’s quite an extraordinary journey. It’s also a real testament to the hard work of thousands of people over the years. This anniversary also gives us the chance to look forward to the future and use the lessons we have learnt over the years to ensure we’re best placed to make the most of the many opportunities that lie ahead.”
On average, Hays conducts 45,000 face-to-face interviews every month and fills 1,000 jobs around the world every working day. To build such scale, the company has invested heavily in its workforce, as well as embracing evolving technologies and digital platforms, including partnerships with Google, SEEK, Xing and LinkedIn - with over 2 million followers on the social networking site. Hays is also the Official Recruitment Partner of Manchester City FC and Manchester City’s Women’s FC.
Alistair added, “It is a huge endorsement to our company that we have so many long serving employees. The heart of a business is its people and our dedicated staff have played a big part in what has made us so successful over the past 50 years. We look forward to not only celebrating this huge occasion with our employees, but with clients and candidates too.”
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Contact job title: Group Senior Communications Executive
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Contact telephone number: 020 7383 2266
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2017 the Group employed 10,000 staff operating from 250 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2017:
– the Group reported net fees of £954.6 million and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £211.5 million;
– the Group placed around 70,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 240,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 24% of Group net fees were generated in Asia Pacific, 49% in Continental Europe & RoW (CERoW) and 27% in the United Kingdom & Ireland;
– the temporary placement business represented 59% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 41% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA