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REC Audited - Delivering excellence

Audited LogoRecruitment is a competitive market. Every agency talks about how they can ‘add value’, but actually being able to demonstrate that you are different to competitors is a different matter entirely.

Your clients want to know about how you are committed to adding value through the highest possible professional standards. Show them through REC Audited.

What is REC Audited?

REC Audited is a robust audit package that validates compliance with the Employment Agencies Act and Conduct Regulations 2003 and REC Code of Professional Practice. The REC team of professional auditors conducts a thorough audit of your business, going through such areas of compliance like:

  • Equal Opportunities
  • Data Protection
  • Training and Induction
  • Complaints Procedure
  • Work Seeker Registration
  • Work seeking services
  • Overseas workers
  • Temporary and permanent workers
  • Payments to and from the work seeker
  • Dealing with Clients
  • Contracts with clients and work seekers

Why should you become an REC Audited holder?

  1. REC AuditedREC Audited looks in greater detail at your processes than an REC Inspection, such as ensuring that appropriate checks are taken to ensure workers are not paid below the national minimum wage.
  2. You are in a better position to win tenders with clients that have strict policies on ensuring their suppliers have established robust and ethical procedures – important in heavily regulated industry sectors.
  3. REC Audited is a way of showing your clients that the trade body of the recruitment industry has vetted you for best practice and the highest professional standards.
  4. You get an accreditation that is recognised by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) as a key external audit of recruitment agency processes.
  5. You get access to a suite of client focused support tools and services available just for REC Audited holders only (Coming soon).
  6. You become part of an elite group of recruitment agencies across the UK that holds the REC Audited standard.
  7. Show prospective and existing employees that your brand is one that they will want to work for.

How do you find out more?

To find out more about REC Audited or other REC products and services please call your Account Manager today on 020 7009 2188.

Not ready yet? For more information on support in getting your business ready for Audited status please contact REC Business Services.

For further information contact the REC's Professional Standards Team:

Nikki Cooper - nikki.cooper@rec.uk.com or call 020 7009 2136 
Marie Connolly - marie.connolly@rec.uk.com or call 020 7009 2186.


    Related Documents

    1. REC Audited Brochure PDF file - 366K
    2. REC Audited v REC Inspections PDF file - 56K
    3. Guidance for REC Audited Applicants PDF file - 59K

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