CIPD - Productive partnerships – building and maintaining relationships with recruitment agencies

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Recruitment Forum network seminar

MEETING POSTPONED TO JANUARY- NEW DATE WILL BE CIRCULATED SOON

Venue: Meeting Room 8.1, Local Government House, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HZ

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

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Booking

Please download the booking form, complete and return with payment - details on the form. A VAT receipt will be given to delegates on registration with their delegate pack.