Society Events
Productive partnerships - building and maintaining relationships with recruitment agencies
Date: Fri, Jan 9th, 2009 1:00:01 pm | Location: Meeting Room 8.1, Local Government House, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HZ | Speaker: Steve Huxham: Karen Wisdom, Ipsos Mori: Kevin Green, Chair, REC: Toni Williams, Serco Group: Michele White, Gilead Sciences
Despite the wide choice of recruitment attraction methods available to employers today, there still remains a big demand for recruitment agencies to help employers attract and recruit key staff to their organisation. The CIPD's Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey 2008 revealed that 78% of employers used recruitment agencies in 2007 to fill vacancies.
But historically relationships between HR professionals and recruitment consultants have not always been good - with potential for mistrust on both sides. So what steps can HR professionals take to improve their relationships with agencies? And what business benefits can employers gain from working in partnership with agencies?
For recruitment agencies to successfully meet HR's recruitment requirements the quality of the relationship between HR and recruitment agencies needs to be high. In fact, research from the CIPD's 2007 recruitment survey shows that where HR and recruitment agencies are committed to developing and maintaining closer relationships the outcomes for both parties are more positive. And from a strategic perspective, it's the formation of these stronger partnerships that brings added value and mutual business benefits.
All delegates will receive a free copy of the CIPD and REC's latest guide - The relationship between HR and recruitment agencies - a guide to productive partnerships.
Objectives
This event will:
share with you key messages and insights from the CIPD's latest research on the relationship between HR and recruitment agencies offer you the recruiters viewpoint on the benefits to your organisation of working with recruitment agencies provide you with some practical examples and learning on different aspects of how employers are working collaboratively with recruitment agencies give you the opportunity to take part in a debate and network with our expert speakers and fellow HR professionals
Programme
13 00 Registration and lunch 13 30 Chair's introduction Steve Huxham, Chair, Recruitment Society 13 40 Speaker: Karen Wisdom, Associate Director, Ipsos Mori
Building and developing effective HR-Recruitment relationships
Highlights from the CIPD's and REC's Guide on the relationship between HR and recruitment agencies - a good practice guide to productive partnerships
14 10 Speaker: Kevin Green, CEO, The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
How recruitment agencies can add value to HR strategies
The role of intermediaries - going forward How a service can help solve talent and skills shortages How agencies can help reach tough to access labour markets 14 40 Q&A Session 15 00 Coffee break and networking 15 15 Speaker: Toni Williams, Resourcing Manager, Serco Group
Making the most of recruitment relationships
Managing internal relationships Managing external suppliers Effective use of technology Living our values Moving forward
15 45 Speaker: Michele White, HR Manager, Gilead Sciences
HR and agency partnership
The benefits of working in close collaboration with recruitment agencies and investing time on 'the brief' upfront Why and how we assess external recruitment partners to best suit/reflect the pharmaceutical industry & Gilead's company culture and values Implementing performance measures and fees for external recruitment agencies in order to motivate and drive achievement Moving to a PSL - why and what is involved Current recruitment challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry and Gilead in particular 16 15 Q&A session 16 30 Close of event
Please download the booking form, complete and return with payment - details on the form. Bookings should be made directly with CIPD Recruitment Forum. A VAT receipt will be given to delegates on registration with their delegate pack.
Contact: 0208 612 6386
Email: forums@cipd.co.uk
Member price: £60
Non member price: £60
