Hays Energy

We are leading global experts in qualified, professional and skilled recruitment. Last year our experts placed around 57,000 people into permanent jobs and around 212,000 people into temporary assignments.

We employ 8,237 staff in 237 offices across 33 countries and 20 specialisms.

Every day we help clients simultaneously dealing with talent shortages in certain markets, while having to reshape workforces in others. The nature of employment is also changing fast, with technological advances driving evolutions in the way people work. We understand these complexities and are uniquely positioned across our markets to solve them.

We aim to build the world’s pre-eminent specialist recruitment business and to deliver well-diversified and profitable fee growth.

Our four Strategic Pillars underpin everything we do in order to deliver on these long-term aims. Additionally, our areas of Operational Focus describe how we manage the business on a day-to-day basis in response to changes in each market as and when they occur.

In an industry which has clear structural growth opportunities but is also characterised by cyclicality, this twin-track approach is critical to achieving our long-term aims whilst maximising the short-term performance of the Group.

Hays' Specialist Recruitment business was founded as the Career Care Group in 1969 by former CEO Denis Waxman. This business was acquired by Hays plc in 1986, the Specialist Recruitment business forming part of the diversified larger Hays group.

In March 2003, Hays announced that, following a strategic review, it intended to reposition itself as a pure-play specialist recruitment business and that the company would dispose of all non-core business, including its Commercial and Logistics operations.

In November 2004 Hays demergered its mail business, DX Services plc, which represented the final significant step in the transformation of Hays into a pure-play specialist recruitment business and Hays has now been trading as a specialist recruitment group since this period.

In November 2007 Denis Waxman retired after nearly 40 years with the specialist recruitment business of Hays. Denis was succeeded by Alistair Cox who became Chief Executive of Hays plc in November 2007.