About Hays
Hays is a global leader in specialist recruitment, placing professional candidates in permanent, temporary and interim positions. With over 7,753 staff in 376 offices across 25 countries, last year we placed over 40,000 people in permanent jobs, and each week we place almost the same number in temporary assignments.
Hays is the largest publicly listed recruitment group in the UK, and is a FTSE 250 support services listed company.
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.
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
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.
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.