HR Recruit

HR Recruit: a UK-wide agency dedicated to human resources recruitment

HR Recruit is a recruitment agency that works exclusively on human resources roles. Its activity is organised around two audiences: employers seeking HR staff and HR professionals looking for a new position. The agency describes itself as a leading UK-wide HR recruitment specialist and states that HR recruitment is all it does.

Its model combines a national network of HR professionals with a regional structure. The company lists eight regional offices and a wider set of covered locations, presenting itself as offering local recruiters backed by a nationwide knowledge base.

Permanent, interim and part-time placements

The agency divides its employer services into three main recruitment formats:

• Full-time HR recruitment: permanent hiring of HR professionals.
• Interim HR recruitment: temporary and interim resources drawn from its database of HR professionals.
• Part-time HR recruitment: support for a number of days per week or per month, using its network of part-time HR professionals.

Elsewhere on the site, the agency also refers to executive and fractional HR talent among the profiles it can source for employers.

Roles and specialisms covered

The job search on the site classifies vacancies by function and level. The categories shown include HR, internal recruitment, learning and development, reward and senior HR. The resources section lists salary guides and job descriptions for positions such as HR Director, Head of HR, HR Manager, HR Officer, HR Advisor, HR Assistant, L&D Manager, HR Administrator, HR Business Partner and Head of Reward.

Geographically, the job search filters vacancies by region and county, with options including East Midlands, North East, North West, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands and Yorkshire.

Regional offices and covered locations

The agency identifies eight regional offices: Birmingham (Midlands), Bristol (Wales & South West), Cambridge (East of England), Edinburgh (Scotland), Leeds (Yorkshire), London (South East), Manchester & North West and Newcastle (North East).

Beyond those offices, the site lists a long set of locations covered, including London, Crawley, Cambridge, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, St Albans, Sheffield, Maidstone, Wokingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Ipswich, Chelmsford, Swindon, Cheltenham, York, Exeter, Southampton, Bournemouth, Oxford, Derby, Hull, Leicester and Warrington. The agency states that it recruits HR professionals throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

Services for candidates and employers

For job seekers, the agency offers registration so that candidates can be notified of suitable opportunities. It also publishes career content, including CV writing tips for HR professionals, interview tips for HR candidates and resignation tips, as well as a blog and a video library.

For employers, it provides a vacancy registration channel, case studies, salary surveys, job descriptions and interview questions. It also runs events and networking for senior HR professionals, described as opportunities to share knowledge with peers and gain insights from industry experts, alongside an HR Forum and an HR Network with its own registration.

Recruitment approach

The agency presents its consultants as trained and experienced HR recruiters with knowledge of the HR market and its pressure points across key business sectors. It describes its regional network as combining a local focus with nationwide reach, and states that it manages the recruitment process from beginning to end.

Its published material also includes editorial content on HR topics, such as comparisons between the HR Business Partner and HR Manager roles, the role of HR in developing environmental, social and governance goals, and retirement support for HR teams.

Corporate headquarters

The corporate headquarters is listed as Exec Recruit Group Ltd, Suite 8, Unit A Cobham House, Wilkinson Way, Blackburn, BB1 2EE. The agency states that most enquiries are reviewed within one business day.