Vedior is an international recruitment company that helps jobseekers achieve their ambitions and match work demands to their lifestyle requirements. We have a global network of offices spanning Europe, North America, Australasia, Asia, South America and Africa. We operate a diversified portfolio of brands targeting a broad range of industry sectors, designed to attract skilled job seekers and offer employers a comprehensive range of services to enhance their management of human resources and satisfy their staffing requirements.
We believe that recruitment is very much a people business. In fact, it is the ULTIMATE people business. Our reputation stands or falls on our ability to match the right people to the requirements of our clients. We also rely on the commitment and talent of our own consultants as they are the ones who guarantee the quality and continuity of our services.
War for Talent
Ask any chief executive what they regard as being their company’s biggest asset and they’ll usually respond “people”. They understand that it’s the ability to efficiently find and retain talented staff that will define the successful businesses of the future. Vedior has a unique profile and strategy that enables us to efficiently source rare talent and sets us apart from other recruitment companies. Our sectoral diversity, combined with an extensive geographic coverage, makes us an attractive partner for all types of business, from large multi-nationals to small local employers.
Demographic forecasts suggest a future with a sharp decline in the working-age population in many countries and increasingly severe skills shortages. Vedior is at the centre of this ‘war for talent’, operating in a valuable and dynamic industry. As skill shortages become more acute, more employers seek our assistance in recruiting personnel and managing their human resource needs.
Our Services
The common elements that define a Vedior company are quality of service and specialisation.
Client and candidate characteristics differ markedly across the different sectors in which we operate. Jobseekers like to deal with a recruitment company that fully understands their profession, its trends, qualifications and terminology. Specialists like to deal with specialists. We believe that the delivery of a credible quality service within each of our market sectors can best be effected through separate offices, separate personnel, separate recruitment and sales strategies and, logically, separate brands.
Given a future with impending and extreme skills shortages, the main strength of Vedior’s brands is in their ability to attract candidates, particularly those with increasingly rare and highly valued skills.
Vedior is very well placed to provide services to employers requiring staff in multiple markets across a broad range of disciplines. Through our value-added services, we can help employers simplify, streamline or consolidate recruitment of permanent and temporary staff on a local, regional, national or international basis. We provide tools to better select, optimise, measure and manage the client’s workforce. These services include workforce audit, evaluation, deployment, quality control and reporting.
Dealing with multiple recruitment vendors can be a drain on business resources and efficiency. Our Vedior1 programme manages and co-ordinates all staffing services on behalf of our clients through a nominated shortlist of vendors. Our tailored solutions provide employers with a single point of contact and a dedicated team of specialists to help them better co-ordinate and manage their staffing supply chain. Vedior1 allows employers to outsource employment-related activities without losing control and increase their business efficiency. We also have a specialised and dedicated team to enhance the service we provide to our multinational clients.
Temporary Work
The distinction between temporary work and permanent employment has narrowed in recent years. Temporaries today often receive many of the same benefits as full-time workers as well as comparable salaries.
Flexible working arrangements provided through temporary and contract assignments are playing an increasingly important role in economic success. They allow business to compete more effectively and benefit from enhanced efficiency, better productivity and higher quality. Our services benefit both employers and employees. We help employers to cope with demand during busy periods, manage their costs more effectively and improve productivity. But, importantly, temporary recruitment is increasingly used as a resource to fill skills gaps with specialised talent.
Working on a temporary or contract basis requires a special type of aptitude. The ideal temporary is someone who values variety, who can rise to a challenge, a self-starter who can learn and adapt quickly. Someone who can be relied upon to understand a task and get results.
Finding people with these special skills is Vedior’s core competence.
For job-seekers, in addition to allowing people to better manage their work-life balance, temporary work can be an effective bridge to full-time work. For those entering the labour market for the first time such as newly qualified students, women returning to work after raising a family, and disadvantaged minorities, temporary work can provide an important step up the career ladder. Many people use their experience gained working as a temporary to update and improve their skills thus improving their career prospects and salary potential.
We also provide a valuable service to governments by contributing to general economic well-being. The recruitment industry helps to keep the world working, improving labour market efficiency, creating new jobs and reducing unemployment.
Our People
As a service company, the calibre of our own personnel is integral to the success of our business. We take great care in engaging and training skilled recruitment consultants, who not only have expertise in general employment and staffing issues, but also have particular knowledge of the sector in which they operate. Many of our staffing consultants are, themselves, qualified within the sector in which they specialise, be it, for example, engineering, information technology, or teaching. They understand the business drivers, trends, skills, qualifications and speak the same business language. This industry focus helps us provide the right employees to our clients and find the right jobs for jobseekers.
Process and professional standards are crucial in accurately matching candidates to jobs, but equally important are the experience and ‘soft skills’ of our consultants in guaranteeing that the right match is made. Skills can be measured and qualifications and references checked but aptitude, character and reliability are less tangible, more complex attributes to assess. For employers who get it wrong, the cost of a bad match goes well beyond the immediate cost of hiring. In a “people” business, being able to understand the specific requirements and personality of the candidate as well as the culture of the prospective employer is what makes a good recruitment consultant.
The quality of our services depends upon our ability to efficiently and accurately match the requirements of both parties in the recruitment process: employers and jobseekers. As well as sustaining good client relationships it is also important we treat candidates with the same degree of professionalism.