Welwyn Hatfield council appoints Manpower and Tribal resourcing

Manpower, the leading recruitment agency and Tribal Resourcing, a specialist Public Sector recruitment advertising company, have been appointed to deliver temporary and permanent recruitment services to Welwyn Hatfield Council in a six-year contract starting on 1st August 2004.

The partnership will deliver staffing solutions to meet the Council’s growing recruitment needs, providing a cost effective recruitment advertising as well as a high quality temporary and permanent recruitment, training and career development service. The Council, a large employer in the area with over 800 staff, delivers high quality services to around 100,000 residents. Manpower and Tribal Resourcing will provide staffing solutions to ten Council service areas including: Planning and Environmental Health, Community Services, Environmental Services, Housing and Waste Services.

Michel Saminaden, Chief Executive for Welwyn Hatfield Council says: This approach is a much more efficient and cost effective use of Council resources. It also will provide us with clear performance monitoring and management information which means that our recruitment process will provide better value for money.

Both private sector partners have worked together since 2002 delivering innovative and practical staffing solutions to neighbouring, award winning Hertfordshire County Council. The contract will help Welwyn Hatfield Council make savings with improved efficiencies such as a reduction in administration, savings on advertising spend and improved job-matching capabilities.

Paula Mayes, Account Development Manager Public Sector at Manpower says, We are delighted with the new contract and look forward to working once again with our partners in providing staffing services over the next six years. We have a proven track record of working with public sector organisations both at local and national level.

Julie Towers, Chief Executive of Tribal Resourcing said: It is encouraging that local authorities are now seeing the benefits of entering into strategic partnerships on recruitment solutions rather than contractor/supplier relationships. We will be ensuring that Welwyn Hatfield Council reduces the number of unfilled vacancies, make efficiencies and develop a longer term strategy to help them recruit and retain the very best staff.

Julie Towers continues: We have worked with Manpower for two years in Hertfordshire and we find them excellent partners. In Welwyn Hatfield their temporary recruitment services and managing agent approach combined with our interim and executive resourcing and advertising services, will help us deliver a holistic service for Welwyn Hatfield Council.

Staff working for Manpower enjoy industry-leading benefits including a competitive salary, paid sick leave, paid annual holiday, paid paternity leave, access to stakeholder pension, and free life assurance. All staff and candidates registered with Manpower can also access Manpower’s free online learning tool offering over 1,000 courses allowing them to brush up or learn new skills such as leadership, customer service or presentation skills.

Manpower has significant expertise in working with public sector clients and works with over 120 councils nationwide tailoring the staffing solution to each client requirement. The company is also a shareholder in Working Links, a public private partnership organization helping the hardest to help groups back to work by breaking down the barriers they often face. Since its creation in 2000, Working Links has helped over 45,000 long term unemployed people get back into work and stay in work making it one of the most successful deliverers of the Government’s ’back to work’ initiative.