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About Reed
Reed, the UK's leading specialist recruitment and HR services provider, has been providing recruitment solutions to employers and jobseekers for over 46 years.
Backed up by an unrivalled recruitment heritage, we are able to offer our clients a high level of service, along with access to the UK's largest database of candidates.
Recruitment heritage
Reed began as a company in May 1960, when Alec Reed opened his first branch in Hounslow, West London. From these early beginnings, Reed has grown organically into a business with over 300 offices and over 3,000 employees.
Reed now offers HR and recruitment services to businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to large blue chip organisations. And with over 46 years of recruitment experience, Reed will continue to grow and offer solutions tailored to the needs of its clients.
Specialist recruitment
Reed was the first recruitment company to offer specialist recruitment services, beginning with the creation of Reed Accountancy in the early 1960s.
Since then, Reed has continued to tailor its recruitment services, with 24 individual business specialisms offering recruitment solutions in distinct industry sectors.
Find out more about Reed’s business specialisms
Market-leading website
reed.co.uk is the UK’s leading recruitment website. Since its launch in1995 it has grown to become the logical destination for jobseekers from all industry sectors and locations.
Strategic marketing and word-of-mouth combine to ensure that the number of jobseekers registered with reed.co.uk grows by more than 2,500 every day. This ensures Reed Consultants always have access to the widest possible choice of candidates to fill your vacancies.
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Candidate screening and assessments
Reed’s qualified consultants rigourously screen and assess all candidates before submitting their details to a client. All candidates undergo a pre-interview with a Reed consultant, as well as in many cases being tested for the role they are applying for.
In addition, all candidates will be referenced prior to the commencement of a temporary assignment with a client, with special reference checking being offered for temporary workers placed in banks and financial organisations.
Online products and services
Reed offers clients a portfolio of innovative technical solutions to ensure that the recruitment process is as effective and cost efficient as possible. As standard, we offer all clients our online timesheet authorisation and submission service, Ontime ®.
Larger clients can also benefit from more extensive cost-saving solutions such as Managed Agency software, electronic billing solutions and online MI services.
Learn more about our online products & services
Corporate social responsibility
Reed's aim is to be the 'First Choice for People' and as such we take our responsibilities as a 'Corporate Citizen' seriously.
Reed’s socially responsible activities include employment initiatives, such as placing the long-term unemployed into work via Reed in Partnership’s Welfare to Work programs, and environmental concerns, with Reed being the first national recruitment company to become Carbon Neutral ®.
We have also founded several charities, one of which, Ethiopiaid UK, donated over £2m to projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2005.
