About membership
Jobs transform lives, which is why we’re building the best recruitment market in the world.
Recruitment plays a crucial role in shaping and growing the UK labour market, ensuring businesses find the right talent and people find the right jobs.
Being a member of the REC means being among the best. The REC represents more than 3,000 recruitment businesses and more than 9,000 individual recruiters through its Institute of Recruitment Professionals. Only REC membership offers the tools needed to build a compliant and productive recruitment business.
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Read moreProfessional standards
Maintaining and improving industry standards is a pivotal part of the work we do at the REC, which means that all members’ sign up to the Code of Professional Practice and complaints and disciplinary process.
In addition, all members’ must pass the REC’s mandatory Compliance test. Which ensures all REC members conduct themselves ethically and adhere to best practice.
This is just one way you can differentiate yourself from your competitors, our binding Code of Professional Practice ensures all REC Members conduct themselves ethically and adhere to best practice.
Member Case Studies
It's great to have as a network and resource to keep tabs on what’s happening in the industry. It helps legitimise an often maligned industry and it shows the industry has being proactive in terms of self-regulation.
Sarah Ronan , Managing Consultant
We have seen at first- hand the excellent work that the REC does behind the scenes on behalf of its members and would definitely encourage other members to get more involved and share their skills and experience.
Jan Stevens , corporate Services Director
