It’s all about Compliance! Adrian Marlowe, Director, SiR - Standards in Recruitment

1. Tel:
0845 4504415
29 June 2015
HR 24th September 2015
Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and
Life Sciences

2. Adrian Marlowe
MD –
Chairman –
Director –
Independent accreditation for recruitment
businesses and its relevance to HR

3. We need your help!

4. Proposition
• Identifying quality businesses
• A standard you can trust
• Validation is real, not perceived

5. HR Governance
• “…HR governance requires….risk management and
performance measurement practices”….. “There is a
need to respond to very dynamic and complex regulatory
and compliance changes…”needed where people and
knowledge are the competitive difference” Deloitte 2011
• Background checks etc
• Entitled to have assurance from agencies
Rationale

6. How do you select?
Existing source?
Large company?
Trade association member?
Experience and capacity?
Why?
HR governance = compliance and results
Subjective?
Rationale - historical
Limiting?
Lack of impartiality?
3/8ths excluded?
Credentials

8. Legal compliance + ? Core values, what are they?
Expectations put together with stakeholders, e.g.
Honesty and transparency
Expertise exists
Representations are correct
Confidentiality
No tax risk, minimal employment risk
Consistency establishes reliability and trust
And more…..

9. Vision -
A genuine recruitment specific standard
that everyone recognises as
• independent
• impartial
• trustworthy
• helping hirers, candidates and agencies
alike
 Great risk management tool
 Improving HR governance

10. Vision - benefits
• Reduces risk
poor selection
poor service
liability and loss
potential reputational damage
• Increases quality and
improves standards
• Easily identifiable logo
 Risk management tool – HR governance

11. How it works
• Standards and principles set by stakeholders
• 3 stage process
 gap analysis
 legal audit
 onsite audit testing outcomes
• 2 year accreditation, one year repeat onsite
audit
Evidence based, independent, no membership
Real verification
 Risk management tool – HR governance

12. “….comprehensive and consistent
standards… SIR answers a longstanding
need for quality assurance within the
recruitment industry…”
Jonathan Land – senior HR partner Marshall ADG

13. What you can do
 Get involved!
 Review the standards and feed back
 Discuss with your recruitment agencies
 Add to your HR governance strategy as long
term policy
 Help improve standards within recruitment
Work with us!
www.standardsinrecruitment.com
0845 450 4415