IT Contractors Award Hays Best Recruitment Agency for Second Year Running

Hays Information Technology, the leading recruiting expert, has been awarded the title of Best Recruitment Agency by readers of IT contractor website Contractor UK for the second consecutive year.

The winners are chosen by the IT contractors and have been running for eight years, offering a guide to the best service providers to freelance IT professionals, including categories for best accountant, client and job board.

Lee Chant, Managing Director of Hays IT, comments:
"To be named Best Recruitment Agency by Contractor UK readers for the second consecutive year is tremendous. We are grateful to all the readers who voted for us to win this award and this is testament to the hard work of our UK team and our commitment to providing an expert service to IT contractors."

For more information about Hays IT please visit: www.hays.co.uk/IT

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About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2014 the Group employed 8,237 staff operating from 237 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2014:

– the Group reported net fees of £724.9 million and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £140.3 million;
– the Group placed around 57,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 212,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 24% of Group net fees were generated in Asia Pacific, 42% in Continental Europe & RoW (CERoW) and 34% in the United Kingdom & Ireland;
– the temporary placement business represented 59% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 41% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA

For further press information please contact:
Eleanor Pead
Hays
T. 020 7200 3760
E. eleanor.pead@hays.com