Employer FAQs

You and your business deserve the very best recruitment solution with a service that can help transform your business by providing you with the right employees to meet and exceed your business objectives, goals and expectations. HR Transformations is an online recruitment agency dedicated to excellence that focuses on getting to the very heart of what you need so you can confidently hire for the long term.

HR Transformations, part of the Harbron Group, is a well-established four generation family run construction industry recruitment business based in the South West of England that progresses from strength to strength in its specialist field of construction recruitment related services. Having established a quality brand, solid core business and infrastructure over twenty five year years it confidently branched out and expanded with HR Transformations as an online recruitment brand into other sectors and industries. Utilising its extensive recruitment knowledge, professionally skill based employees, methods and systems and ability to deliver high quality candidates through its rigorous selection process, it continues to provide an exceptional quality service contributing to the success of its client’s business aims and objectives.

Yes. “Our aim is to offer a genuine, honest service focusing on quality rather that quantity. We understand that every client is individual and operates in a different way which is why we offer a tailor-made, flexible service. We believe that taking the time to get to know our clients and fully understand their needs and the way their business operates enables us to offer a tailor-made service to each and every client.”

We believe in a transparent and open pricing policy based on the service required, therefore one pricing structure does not fit all circumstances. Different vacancies / roles require different strategies, applications, efforts and energies and therefore pricing is only determined when a full assessment of the role and its requirements have been made. As an illustration, consider the fitment of a new bathroom, can a ‘one price fits all’ scenario be applied? Of course not! There are many factors that determine the overall cost, e.g. size of room, type and quality of fittings, estimated time to complete and the skill of the tradesman all play a part. This is where a bespoke service priced under our ‘Ethical Pricing Policy’ ensures the recruitment service fee reflects fairly on the degree and complexity of the work required to complete the vacancy. Easier to fill roles can be a real financial advantage for our clients and even more complex roles can also work out extremely favourably depending on the circumstances.

As soon as you’ve contacted us by submitting an enquiry or vacancy through our website or by calling us directly on 01626 333105, we establish the essential key information about your vacancy and the role criteria, obtaining a job specification if one is readily available. At this point we will carry out an initial assessment to determine the amount of service required to successfully complete the task. This involves such actions as checking candidate availability by location through internal and external resources and matching candidate skills and qualifications against the job specification. At this stage we contact you with a fee proposal. Once terms and conditions have been agreed we get down to the nitty-gritty of the role to determine the subjective ‘candidate fit’ qualities (if required) that will align with you and your business.

As a dynamic and responsive online recruitment agency we really get to work for you; appraising any existing job specification, updating it or writing it from scratch. Exploring our extensive database resources, advertising the role (when necessary), carrying out a rigorous search and selection process and in-depth analysis, screening and pre-interviewing of available candidates along with full administration processes, all with the ultimate objective to recruit for you the ‘perfect’ employee for your business. Only the best and most suitable candidates are presented to you for your final assessment leading to selection.

Thankfully, there are some Recruitment Agencies like HR Transformations that do offer a fantastic recruiting service with many benefits and who will go that extra mile for their clients. We know however that fees can be pretty much non-negotiable, regardless of the extent of service required to complete the vacancy. We believe that HR Transformations’ ‘Ethical Pricing Policy’ is the difference. As explained in the question ‘What is the ‘Ethical Pricing Policy’ and how will I benefit from it?’, we feel it establishes a fair and equitable means of pricing for a recruitment service that is for our client’s benefit. HR Transformations is simply fantastic news for employers who are looking to obtain a first class recruitment service with realistic pricing.

As we already run a successful construction industry recruitment business that caters for temporary and permanent placements we welcome enquiries from construction companies who are looking to recruit or hire builders, plasters, brick layers, steel fabricators, telehandlers

If we initially are unable to rapidly source candidates from our internal database of 30,000 candidates or locate them from the leading job boards and CV search engines where we have access to over 10 Million registered CVs, then we will immediately engage in job board and social media advertising. This is the reason why our ‘Ethical Pricing Policy’ principle is so effective, it’s because we have already done sufficient provisional work in assessing and searching and can therefore can make a reasoned decision on the best course of action to take from the outset.

Yes, we can and have managed a wide range of vacancies with great success and welcome enquiries from all employment sectors. However, once we have carried out our initial evaluation we may at times choose not to accept a vacancy. ‘Why not you ask?’ Well, the honest answer to that question is that we need to be absolutely fair and honest with our prospective clients from the outset and therefore at times, for example, we could consider the job criteria so narrow and specialised that it requires a very specific & specialist agency to handle it. At HR Transformations it is a case of working to our strengths so you receive a high quality of service and great candidates. “We’d rather not give you anyone than give you someone who we feel is second best!” You can rest assured however that the majority of vacancies can be filled very successfully!

One of our specialist consultants will be your assigned to your vacancy to meet your specific needs. Click Here to see some of our advisors. If you would like a friendly chat to find out more we are always available on 01626 333105; or you can email John Turner at john@hrtransformations.co.uk, or send any general queries to our Customer Support Team at support@HRtransformations.co.uk.

Invoice payment is due 30 days from the first day that the candidate(s) begins their employment with you. Our terms and conditions along with the agreed fee will be sent to you for approval and acceptance prior to the majority of the recruitment work being carried out by us. Our initial search and investigation is without charge. Under some circumstances we may request a small engagement fee before work can begin, however this will be deducted from the final invoice when a successful placement has been made. If we are unable to fill your vacancy, no payment will be due and any engagement fee paid will be refunded in line with our terms and conditions accepted by you.

HR Transformations as part of the Harbron Group values its brand and reputation extremely seriously. We adhere strictly to the Recruitment professional bodies and as such we are a Corporate Member of the professional body for the recruitment industry, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) , which means that we adhere to the strict REC Code Of Professional Practice. We are also accredited to CHAS (Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme) , SMAS (worksafe contractor) and CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) . HR Transformations also operates under its own Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and conducts its business under the framework of laws and regulations set out by Government as follows:

• The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (as amended in 2007)
• The Employment Agencies Act 1973
• The Advertising Standards Authority - Committee of Advertising Practise
• Web Accessibility and the Disability Discrimination Act (1995 & 2005)
• The Data Protect Act 1998. HR Transformations and hrtransformations.co.uk are trading names of Harbron Recruit Limited, which is a registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a Data Controller Number Z2772079.

Yes, we welcome the opportunity to support and promote other businesses who we feel can promote our services because we believe this reciprocal business plays an important role to the business development of the company that is mutually beneficial. As a national online recruitment agency we strive to be branded as a leading recruitment agency offering a fantastic service at a competitive price. Getting our marketing brand established to UK businesses so they can benefit from our recruitment service and in turn advertising, promoting and helping them too is a successful formula that is very rewarding.

Our website developer Richard Davey at ‘Two Superior’ did an amazing job. The results speak for themselves! http://www.twosuperior.co.uk/

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