WELWYN HATFIELD COUNCIL APPOINTS MANPOWER AND TRIBAL RESOURCING
TO MEET RECRUITMENT NEEDS
Manpower, the leading recruitment agency and Tribal Resourcing, a specialist Public Sector recruitment advertising company, have been appointed to deliver temporary and permanent recruitment services to Welwyn Hatfield Council in a six-year contract starting on 1st August 2004.
The partnership will deliver staffing solutions to meet the Council’s growing recruitment needs, providing a cost effective recruitment advertising as well as a high quality temporary and permanent recruitment, training and career development service. The Council, a large employer in the area with over 800 staff, delivers high quality services to around 100,000 residents. Manpower and Tribal Resourcing will provide staffing solutions to ten Council service areas including: Planning and Environmental Health, Community Services, Environmental Services, Housing and Waste Services.
Michel Saminaden, Chief Executive for Welwyn Hatfield Council says:
“This approach is a much more efficient and cost effective use of Council resources. It also will provide us with clear performance monitoring and management information which means that our recruitment process will provide better value for money."
Both private sector partners have worked together since 2002 delivering innovative and practical staffing solutions to neighbouring, award winning Hertfordshire County Council. The contract will help Welwyn Hatfield Council make savings with improved efficiencies such as a reduction in administration, savings on advertising spend and improved job-matching capabilities.
Paula Mayes, Account Development Manager Public Sector at Manpower says, “We are delighted with the new contract and look forward to working once again with our partners in providing staffing services over the next six years. We have a proven track record of working with public sector organisations both at local and national level.”
Julie Towers, Chief Executive of Tribal Resourcing said: “It is encouraging that local authorities are now seeing the benefits of entering into strategic partnerships on recruitment solutions rather than contractor/supplier relationships. We will be ensuring that Welwyn Hatfield Council reduces the number of unfilled vacancies, make efficiencies and develop a longer term strategy to help them recruit and retain the very best staff."
Julie Towers continues: “We have worked with Manpower for two years in Hertfordshire and we find them excellent partners. In Welwyn Hatfield their temporary recruitment services and managing agent approach combined with our interim and executive resourcing and advertising services, will help us deliver a holistic service for Welwyn Hatfield Council".
Staff working for Manpower enjoy industry-leading benefits including a competitive salary, paid sick leave, paid annual holiday, paid paternity leave, access to stakeholder pension, and free life assurance. All staff and candidates registered with Manpower can also access Manpower’s free online learning tool offering over 1,000 courses allowing them to brush up or learn new skills such as leadership, customer service or presentation skills.
Manpower has significant expertise in working with public sector clients and works with over 120 councils nationwide tailoring the staffing solution to each client requirement. The company is also a shareholder in Working Links, a public private partnership organization helping the hardest to help groups back to work by breaking down the barriers they often face. Since its creation in 2000, Working Links has helped over 45,000 long term unemployed people get back into work and stay in work making it one of the most successful deliverers of the Government’s ‘back to work’ initiative.
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About Manpower
Manpower is the UK’s leading workforce management company, specialising in temporary and permanent recruitment, HR services, managed services, outsourcing and HR consultancy.
Manpower has been established in the UK since 1956 and today works with organisations in both the public and private sector. Manpower’s UK-wide network of 300 offices allows the company to meet the needs of local and national customers. This includes numerous small and medium sized enterprises, as well as larger organisations such as BMW, BT, Heinz, Hertford shire County Council, IBM, National Health Service, New Deal South Wales, Royal Mail and Xerox.
The focus of Manpower’s work is on raising productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost-reduction, enabling customers to concentrate on their core business.
Manpower has a highly skilled workforce of 100,000 temporary employees who stay loyal to the company (and its customers) thanks to best in class employment benefits. These include a contract of employment and free online training at all sites nationwide. Manpower also works together with its staff to help bridge the gap to permanent employment. Manpower’s e-learning tool offers staff over 1,000 courses in a diverse range of subjects, keeping Manpower’s workforce up to date with today’s ever-changing working environment.
Tribal Resourcing (formerly GWT) was established in 1998 as an independent recruitment company and the company’s goal was to provide high quality integrated consulting, advertising and HR strategy. In May 2001, after four successive years of phenomenal growth, the business merged into The Tribal Group plc, a leading provider of professional support services for the public sector in the UK. The group offers a comprehensive portfolio of consultancy and managed services in the UK outsourcing market.
Tribal Executive Resourcing now operates out of eight centres: Birmingham, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, Bristol and Bury St Edmunds. This national coverage enables us to offer the best of both worlds – local service to our clients and national reach to access the very best candidates, best value processes, and extensive knowledge of the sector. We have recruited over 100 Chief Executives and 1,000 senior managers.
Our Advertising service aims to provide maximum impact for a recruitment message at minimum cost, to build on a client’s positive image as an employer locally and nationally and promote key employment policies such as equal opportunities.
The significant experience and expertise of Tribal Executive Resourcing is enhanced by the quality of our consultants. Our people strongly identify with the aims and objective so the public services we help deliver.
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