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WHAT EXACTLY DOES BPS DO?

As specialists in the people business, we deliver effective recruitment and retention programmes. We listen and we troubleshoot, providing whatever your business requirements dictate.

Experience and expertise channelled into bespoke personnel solutions – big or small - with action-plans for business achievement.
Working with you to create best practise in recruitment and retention, we’ll design and implement a clearly defined interview structure and process.
We provide simple ways to predict, track, trace and measure annual recruitment spend.
We help significantly reduce the time your key personnel spend on resourcing.
We refine and manage the assessment of potential talent and the processes which identify the right people.
We work alongside you throughout the process, working as an extension of your own management team.
We provide assessment centres, e-HR, personal profile analysis and testing for skills training.
Management, reviews and assessment of approved supplier contracts, enabling accurate evaluation of value and service throughout.
Training programmes developed for your staff to ensure consistently excellent hiring results.
We work to tight deadlines to fulfil immediate project requirements.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BPS AND A RECRUITMENT AGENCY?

Recruitment agencies are limited to supplying candidates simply to fill vacancies. At BPS we offer a comprehensive range of services and management solutions that address all your recruitment, resource and staff retention issues, working with you to create clear, concise strategies.
Recruitment and people-resource is a complex area. BPS specialises in guiding you from problem-diagnosis to a satisfactory result – and we’ll provide the expertise and resource to meet your most demanding objectives.
We can evaluate your current preferred suppliers’ performance and value, reviewing present recruitment agency processes and reporting. We’ll also encourage PS competition to gain speedy access to best talent.
BPS has forged strong relationships with carefully selected agencies, which can then offer you excellent services upon request .
We can also work with your own preferred suppliers.

WHY WOULD I HIRE AN EXTERNAL COMPANY?

Tight deadlines require additional resource, often at very short notice. BPS can quickly supply, implement and manage recruitment programmes from start to finish.
If your capability to hire technical or other specialist staff is limited, our in-house programme supports such projects by providing managers and departments with a formula guaranteeing parity and results.
If your recruitment and resourcing costs have escalated, we’ll provide measurement tools which allow you to regain control. We are highly skilled at predicting recruitment and associated spend, then working within those budgets to ensure economy and excellence throughout.
Employment Legislation is a minefield. We simplify the process and guide you through it, watching closely for changes that could affect your business whilst ensuring duty-of-care to your employees.
Redundancies require exit management strategies, which demonstrate duty-of-care to your employees. Our outplacement help is simple and invaluable.
In an ever-changing business environment, success relies on flexibility. An external partner such as BPS will complement your existing resources when you need them. Operating alongside your own people, working towards a clearly defined, common objective.

MY INDUSTRY OR COMPANY HAS UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS – HOW CAN YOU CLAIM YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THESE?

We don’t! But our record of working within unique environments with specialist needs, often to exceptionally tight deadlines, is unblemished. Our diagnostic strategy is set up to determine what corrective action is needed irrespective of sector.
BPS expertise covers demonstrably specialist fields. We have on our team carefully selected people from many sectors, allowing us to offer in-depth industry experience and knowledge in Technical, Sales, Media, IT, Engineering, Construction and Energy.

WHAT WILL THIS COST ME?

As a bespoke service, we’ll tailor a solution to your specific needs - large or small. For this reason it’s impossible at this stage to quote figures. However, we’re always happy to arrange a complimentary one hour meeting determine corrective recommendations and associated costs.

IS BPS FULLY COMPLIANT AND TRAINED?

Yes. We are ISO 9001:2000 approved and compliant.

HOW CAN I MANAGE A RECRUITMENT AD CAMPAIGN IN-HOUSE IF I DON’T HAVE THE RESOURCES?

You can’t. The high cost of advertising means it is vital that the return on spend is measured and maximised. Working with BPS, you have the resource to ensure best possible return and clear management information in order to exceed objectives.

HOW CAN I IMPROVE MANAGERS’ RECRUITMENT DECISION MAKING SKILLS AND PARITY OF FEEDBACK?

BPS offers effective interview coaching and interactive workshops. We design interview selection criteria specifically to be fair, non-emotional, professional and consistent throughout the recruitment process.
We offer many ways to identify specific skills and ensure feedback is timely, accurate and constructive.

I NEED ADHERENCE TO COMPLEX AND UNIQUE PROCESSES THROUGHOUT MY BUSINESS, INCLUDING STRINGENT SECURITY CHECKS. HOW DO I GAIN AND MONITOR UNIVERSAL COMPLIANCE?

By managing your whole recruitment programme, we ensure all processes are trained, tracked and compliant.