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I highly recommend working with Geri and Laura at HR Dept Recruitment Services. They are highly proactive, open, friendly, empathetic and refreshingly cost effective. This has led to great recruitment success.

30 October 2025

Taking on our first team member was made so much easier with full support from Sarah at the HR Dept. Great guidance, advice and tips. We have everything we need to look after our team now and in the future. Thanks so much Sarah.

Boo! Marketing, 30 October 2025

Amazing service and spot on advise and knowledge. Great job done re-writing staff contracts and handbook.

Richard, 30 October 2025

David has been a huge support to me and my business. He developed our contracts and provided us with the relevant policies when we made our first hire. Since then he's always been on hand and ready to talk when I have ad-hoc queries providing clear and easy to understand advice. I highly recommend the HR Dept Clapham!

Bryony, 30 October 2025

This is the recruitment service to run with

Recruiting the right people for your company can take up a significant amount of time. It’s a lot of work for an already busy business.

Outsourcing your recruitment to us can not only take the task off your hands but will also make sure that your processes are legally compliant.

It might surprise you to learn that employment law applies even before hiring an employee. From the moment, you begin recruiting, you are bound by laws on discrimination and data protection.

Our expert HR professionals can help, and will keep your recruitment on the right side of employment law.

At The HR Dept we offer a personal recruitment service that gets to know you and your business. We’re not a call centre a million miles away. We’re locally based in and can even pop in and chat face-to-face to find out your recruitment needs.

The rewards of getting recruitment right can be immense, as can the cost of getting it wrong.

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Tailoring your recruitment needs

As with all of our recruitment services, we will work closely with you to provide the level of support that is right for you.

This could be the presence of an HR Dept professional at your interviews, or us conducting your whole recruitment process from from start to finish.

The type of recruitment service that we can provide you with will depend on your business needs.

Our broad recruitment offering includes:

Job descriptions and person specifications
Advertising the position in the most effective media for your business
Psychometric testing for recruitment
CV screening and shortlisting candidates
Conducting telephone interviews
Designing competency-based interview questions
Conducting face-to-face interviews

If you’re preparing to hire and want to see how we can help you find the ideal candidate, just call or email us to discuss our recruitment services.

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Recruitment Services FAQ

What recruitment services do The HR Dept offer?

The HR Dept offers a wide range of services to suit all types of businesses. The type of service we provide you with will depend on your needs, which we’ll get to understand once you’ve been in contact.

As a broad offering, our services include job descriptions and personal specifications, advertising, psychometric testing, CV screening and shortlisting, telephone interviews, creating interview questions and conducting face-to-face interviews on your business’s behalf.

If you need help with any of the above, drop us an email or give us a call — we’d love to help you in your search for new talent.

What are the types of recruitment?

There are two types of recruitment:

Internal Recruitment — is the recruitment that happens within the organisation. There are two primary sources of internal recruitment, and they are transfers, from another department or promotions. This type of recruitment can lead to a spike in productivity as the employee’s motivation increases. Because internal recruitment only considers existing employees, a potential downside is that not all the requirements can be met — meaning you might have to make sacrifices. Many companies insist that all opportunities are externally advertised.
External Recruitment — is the recruitment that happens outside your organisation. The advantage being that you can attract a wider pool of candidates and build a more diverse workforce.

How does The HR Dept recruitment service work?

We will sit down with you to discuss your needs and assess which of our recruitment services might be suitable.

From the initial discovery meeting, we can manage the process right through to interviews and offers, or simply be a helping hand to sense-check your processes when needed.

Is there any need to use an HR professional for a start-up?

All types of businesses benefit from using an HR professional, but none more so than start-ups and SMEs. It’s not uncommon for start-up founders to be less experienced when it comes to hiring, so an HR professional will keep everything in check and ensure you recruit the best possible candidate.

As well as helping hire employees through creating inclusive job roles, conducting structured job interviews and protecting businesses from lawsuits, HR professionals help start-ups and SMEs develop and retain employees by fairly compensating workers, creating training programmes and more.

Ask us about our dedicated HR package for start-ups – Flying Start.

Why use a recruitment service?

Using a recruitment service like ours helps to identify and attract talent, whilst reducing the amount of time and money you spend on recruitment. Outsourcing to professionals also makes sure that your processes identify the best candidates whilst remaining compliant with employment law, protecting you and your business.