HR Insights

Our experience within the recruitment industry, as a neutral vendor, provides us with in depth insights into trends, forecasts and labour movement within the UK.  Recent research highlighted the difficulties facing HR in the current economic environment.  Now more than ever, HR professionals need to demonstrate their strategic role in improving organisational efficiencies and performance.  As the number one procurer of temporary agency labour in the UK and a neutral vendor partnering with leading recruitment agencies, our network and negotiation power is unrivalled within the industry.

de Poel is the UK's leading cost reduction consultancy and only truly neutral vendor of temporary agency labour,  specialising in the procurement of agency labour and management of recruitment agencies. As the largest purchaser of labour within the UK (excluding the Government) our primary objective is to reduce costs, improve the quality of agency staff and service, mitigate risk of litigation and gain full visibility and control over our client's agency spend.

Our approach ensures that agency spend is manageable and visible across the business. Impor tantly, we do not ask clients to outsource their entire recruitment process, nor do we ask clients to outsource their relationships with agencies, which may limit communication and possibly restrict understanding of company culture. Providing a neutral vendor recruitment service allows all agencies to be measured on service rather than cost.

Our web-based systems are used to ensure that communication with agencies is efficient, audit able and provides accurate, real-time management information. Our solution ensures that agen cies compete on the quality of candidates interviewed as well as service delivery.

The system which is used by de Poel's clients significantly improves efficiency and reduces the burden of administration allowing staff to focus on their core competencies and deliver high levels of customer service.

As the recruitment industry evolves new models and solution emerge to accommodate the ever changing needs of both large and small organisations.

The neutral vendor recruitment model has experienced unprecedented popularity over the last 12 months.

In this model, an intermediary (neutral vendor provider) sits between the employer and the supplier agencies.  The employing organisation agrees terms for all supply which includes consolidated invoicing. All vacancies are placed with these agencies through the neutral vendor recruitment provider.

• Access to consolidated management and reporting information is available via the neutral vendor recruitment provider
• The neutral vendor recruitment provider can establish a preferred agency panel reflective of the clients needs
• All agencies are placed on a level playing field as the neutral vendor provider puts in place service agreements which includes standarised rates and margins.
• The selection process of the neutral vendor recruitment provider allows agencies that have been used in the past by hiring managers may be retained on the list
• Indirect cost savings are immediately obtained as overall administration is massively reduced.
• The neutral vendor recruitment model reduces the direct costs of pay rates and agency margins which are standardised