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The Recruitment & Employment Confederation - The Voice of the Recruitment Industry

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Hiring staff can be a risky proposition. Recruitment agencies exist to take mitigate those risks through expertise. Here at the REC our role is to help recruitment agencies and professionals to help you - by pushing for higher standards, best practices and enhanced professionalism.

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Jobseeker

Looking for work? If you're using a recruitment agency to help you in your search, you should think about how to develop a good relationship with your agency and understand the agency's rights and obligations in relation to you. Here at the REC, we can't help you find a job directly. But we CAN point you to one of the thousands of our members who will.

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Recruitment

If you work as a recruitment professional or for a recruitment business, then the REC is your organisation. Joining us earns you access to our unparalleled legal advice service, a voice in our powerful lobbying activity, and specialist business support and information created just for recruiters.

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I am in the media

The REC work closely with the recruitment trade press and associated websites and produce a wealth of press releases and articles that detail the latest breaking recruitment news and topical REC activities. REC also publishes a high-level quarterly magazine ? Recruitment Matters - that offers a broad range of articles on recruitment as a career, issues affecting the industry and insights on the wider business community and environment.

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Our Campaigns

HELP Beat the Recession

The accelerating decline in the economy has taken many by surprise, but, the REC is delighted to launch a comprehensive suite of products and services aimed at helping members beat the recession, under our brand new HELP programme.

Agency Workers Directive

Equal treatment for temporary workers is on its way to the UK. The REC are working with Government and stakeholders to ensure equal treatment is workable and does not lead to a reduction in the number of temporary work opportunities.

Recruitment 2020 - Working with Employers

The future of recruitment is vital to everyone. It’s key to the REC as our industry supports access to employment for millions every year. It is our duty to reflect the hard work and ethical stance of REC recruiters to their clients, and in turn to help clients navigate their journey to “best practice” recruitment partnerships.

Pensions for agency workers

From 2012, recruitment agencies will be obliged to automatically enrol agency workers onto a pensions scheme which could pose problems for the industry.

Welfare Reform & Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus and the recruitment industry share the common goal of wanting to get people into work. To this end the REC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Jobcentre Plus in November 2008. As unemployment rises the two organisations are working ever closer together to get people into work.

Professionalising the Recruitment Industry

The REC is at the forefront of a sustained campaign to work alongside its members to professionalise the recruitment industry. The benefits of this are apparent to all and include higher standards, highly skilled recruiters and a higher profile with Government.

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