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Cognita

Global education partnership yields enhanced KPIs and key senior appointments

Cognita

This is our story

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.