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.

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.

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.

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.