Business & Professional Success Stories

We enhance your core functions and help you drive customer success. These stories outline the challenges we've solved.

Business & professional

Success stories

Our Focus

Providing the people who design and build tomorrow’s world

Industry experts

Business and Professional Services is at the crossroads of industry transformation. This change has the potential to unlock tremendous job creation and fundamentally shift the way we all do business.

However, this vast segment includes multiple sectors and functions – Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Customer Service etc - each moving at their own pace.

Therefore, ensuring you have the right people and capability required to drive widespread transformation and enable customer success is crucial.

This is where we come in.

We spend time getting to know you, your business, its structure and its culture. This way we can develop a deep understanding of your corporate landscape and the different roles each department and employee has to play.

By linking all of this together we are then able to deliver the talent required to boost productivity and delight your customers.

Business & professional

Powering professional services

Business and Professional Services is at the crossroads of industry transformation. This change has the potential to unlock tremendous job creation and fundamentally shift the way we all do business.

However, this vast segment includes multiple sectors and functions – Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Customer Service etc - each moving at their own pace.

Therefore, ensuring you have the right people and capability required to drive widespread transformation and enable customer success is crucial.

What do we do?

Anticipating demands and embracing change is not always a straightforward process. To us, it’s in our DNA and what we love to do.

We spend time getting to know you. And we develop a deep understanding of the different roles each employee has to play.

This enables us to deliver the talent required to boost productivity and delight your customers.

Cognita

Global education partnership yields enhanced KPIs and key senior appointments

Key Achievements

Our global reach has enabled us to deliver essential hires and secure leadership talent across Cognita's network of schools and headquarter functions.

Reduced time to hire across the schools network.

Successfully placed strategic personnel at global and regional level.

Skilful management of complex counter-offer processes.

BPS has made me ‘say wow’ for a number of reasons. They are responsive and always contactable and their skilful management of stakeholders at all levels and sound knowledge of marketplace activity have been invaluable. BPS' commitment to safeguarding is outstanding, ensuring our schools feel as if they are entrusting their recruitment to a ‘safe pair of hands’.

Claire Hinson
European Recruitment Partner and SCR Champion
Cognita.

The Problem.

BPS partnered with Cognita in July 2018, with a clear but challenging brief:

To streamline recruitment processes and provide a cost-effective solution.
Ensure a consistent approach and provide support via a dedicated account team.
Increase and enhance brand awareness.

Cognita is a global education provider, with 77+ schools, 7,500 teaching and support staff and 50,000+ students.

Schools form part of largely autonomous pods, meaning they are responsible for their own hiring requirements.

This can lead to inconsistencies within the hiring process. And hamper each school's ability to access the talent it needs to fuel growth.

The Solution.

Our tailored approach has delivered multiple hires at reduced cost, strengthened Cognita's position within a competitive marketplace, and ensured the business has met its safeguarding commitments.

We have successfully met hiring targets and achieved a 4.2/5 overall satisfaction score from hiring managers.
Appointment of key hires at a critical time of ambitious growth.
All BPS recruiters have been Safer Recruiting certified, as part of an established process.
We provide weekly dashboard reporting to offer full visibility of key metrics.
Key relationships have been formed across the UK, Europe, LATAM and Asia, with regional support provided by our global teams.

An initial UK remit has since expanded to cover sites across Europe and Asia, with plans to further boost Cognita's internal hiring function through training and development programmes.

The Results

Santa Fe

Relocation services provider implements RPO solution in three regions

Key Achievements

We've demonstrated the value we can add across
the board.

Successful implementation
of RPO solution across the
UK and EMEA. Now rolled
out to APAC.

Centralisation of recruitment function to save time, money and improve quality.

Introduction of graduate programme to locate talent likely to become more engaged with the brand and
in turn reduce attrition.

"Working with Santa Fe is a true partnership. We’re extremely proud of the quality of candidate and results we’ve delivered while the introduction of the Accelerate Graduate Programme has really helped to enhance the Santa Fe employer brand."

Tim Ward. BPS Account Director
Santa Fe.

The Problem.

In the summer of 2016 Santa Fe were about to undertake rapid global expansion and they required a partner capable of working smarter and faster to hire the volume of people required.

To do so, there was an initial requirement to reduce inefficiencies and inconsistencies across locally managed recruitment functions spanning 47 countries.

Our consultative approach uncovered other areas in need of addressing. Our aim was to reduce agency spend and create a robust recruitment framework that included fit and proper audit trails and approval processes. We were also challenged with sourcing fresh talent into the business.

The Solution

The successful implementation of our fully integrated RPO solution has delivered the desired volume of candidates and placements. Commencing in the UK, our managed service has since been rolled out across EMEA and into APAC.

Part of this process has involved redesigning and redefining Santa Fe’s recruitment processes. The introduction of a centralised and embedded account team has provided clear audit trails and quality assurance.

We’ve also developed an approved supply chain of recruitment agencies to eliminate inconsistencies and better manage spend.

Our suite of products has also provided Santa Fe with enhanced management reporting tools, including a Business Intelligence dashboard that gives full visibility of the hiring process. Finally, the creation and roll-out of the Accelerate Graduate Programme has brought the leaders of tomorrow onboard. We’ve worked in conjunction with Santa Fe
to manage the whole process, from initial CV screening to organising the final
assessment days.

The Results

Who we are

We provide HR leaders with a competitive advantage in the ability to attract, recruit and retain the right people. Our unique approach creates cost and time efficiencies at scale.

During the last 20 years, we’ve grown exponentially. In more ways than you’d imagine. We’ve been the catalyst for hundreds of thousands of unique and life-changing recruitment experiences across the globe.

Something we’re extremely proud of.

What guides us is our founding purpose – ‘people can be more’.

We want the best for all of the candidates we serve and customers we partner with.

And as the representative of its people, we believe your HR team wants the same.

Sharing in this goal enables us to move at pace and forge new ground with the people that matter most to us – our clients, candidates and colleagues.

BPS World combines the best parts of these agencies to deliver a tailored talent solution for your business.

Talent on a global scale

• UK – South
• UK – North
• Republic of Ireland
• United States
• Germany
• Serbia
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Singapore
• Philippines
• China

Our stories

It’s safe to say we’ve had our fair share of experiences.

The success of a business can often be distilled down to a handful of moments. These become the catalyst for great change and cement the very foundations of who you are and why you do what you do.

These are some of the moments that have shaped our lives.

True Partners

We're proud to say that we've been solving problems for our clients for many years.
But we don't really see them as clients, they're true partners in every sense of the word.

How we deliver

Our collaborative workshops are tailored to your organisation. Identify recruitment problems, explore creative ideas and forge the future.

We partner with marketing and HR teams to attract more candidates, increase their quality and raise engagement levels.

We’ve designed, built
and delivered talent and compliance functions across the world. So we know how to find the right people, keep projects on track and protect businesses from risk.

Sourcing, engaging and hiring executive talent is
a service. Going the extra mile to assess the market and imagine the future is
a true partnership.

We Get You...

We’re naturally curious. We probe, we analyse, we collaborate. Labs offer up-front value and act as the perfect starting point for us to really get to know you and your business.
Attraction “I don’t know how we’re going to attract the great candidates this company needs.”
Resourcing “We’re missing out on opportunities and consistently struggling to fill vacancies.”
Compliance “Visible and silent compliance risks are keeping me awake at night.”
Strategy “I fear for the company's long-term success if we don't have the right people in the right seats.”

A creative studio specialising in employer brand and candidate experience. Attract more candidates, increase quality and raise engagement levels.
Career Sites “We need an online destination that truly represents us as an employer of choice.”
Employer Brand “We need to get into the very fabric of the organisation and create an employer value proposition that represents our people.”
Collateral “Our competitors have better job specs, use video and line their candidate experience with engaging content. Where do we start?”
Campaigns “We need the best people but the job boards aren’t delivering.”

No two projects are alike to us. We believe in creating long-term strategic partnerships where we blend our services around unique objectives.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing “We need to break the cycle of using high-cost, unaccountable agencies. And find a partner that’s truly aligned with our long-term plans.”
Project Recruitment “We can’t afford to miss our mark. It’s essential we work at pace and hire the right people so we can meet tight deadlines.”
Contractor Compliance “We need to know who we’re employing, where they are and whether they have the Right to Work in their location.”
Global Payroll “Our organisation is expanding but we’re not sure how to correctly pay our people in unknown territories.”

We started life as an Executive Search firm so we understand the language of business leaders. How they think, how they feel and what they want. It’s second nature to us.
Executive Search “It’s crucial we hire the right person for such an important position. But we’re not sure how we’re going to find the ideal candidate.”
Market Mapping “It’s been a while since we’ve had to dip our toes into the market to see what we’re up against and examine how we can beat the competition.”
Talent Pipelining “Lack of a clear succession plan is a real concern. We need to feel confident that we’re developing the future leaders of our organisation.”
Compensation and Evaluation “Keeping investors happy is key so we need to know we have the right balance between executive pay and performance.”