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From high volume
recruitment & assessment
campaigns, including on-line, involving
thousands of applicants for hundreds of posts, to searches for a
single elusive executive or interim
manager, we have the experience, scale and expertise to get
the job done.
Recruiters can also use our Pre-Appointment
Enquiries and Qualifications
Helpline for full character referencing, health checks, credit
checks and to verify qualifications from anywhere in the world.
We work across both public and private sectors.
We have been awarded prime contractor status to provide HR services
(category 10) to public sector organisations and privatised utilities
through the S-Cat procurement catalogue.
In 2004 we managed over 1000 online & offline
recruitment campaigns, over 2000 job advertisements, over 5000 assessment
events and our response handling team handled over 500,000 candidate
enquiries.
Capita Resourcing is itself part of the Capita
Group Plc, a FTSE 100 listed company and one of the fastest
growing professional support service organisations in the UK. You
might also be interested to read about our history, which goes back
to 1855!
Our history
The 19th Century reform movement criticised the
then current system of patronage, purchase and favour, under which
either the Minister of the department or the Patronage Secretary
of the Treasury nominated candidates for appointment to posts in
the Civil Service. In 1854 the Northcote-Trevelyan Report on the
organisation of the permanent Civil Service identified patronage
as one of the main reasons for the Service's endemic inefficiency
and public disrepute. It recommended open competitive examination
to test merit. In the following year the first Civil Service Commissioners
were appointed to run the examinations and to give approval for
the appointment of those duly qualified. The Commissioners quickly
set up an office - the Civil Service Commission - and recruited
the necessary staff. The years 1870 to 1920 saw the steady extension
of the Commissioners' powers to cover virtually all appointments.
Until the 1939-45 War, selection was mainly by specially prepared
written examinations. Thereafter methods such as interview of those
possessing appropriate academic qualifications, psychometric testing,
and assessment centres were introduced to supplement or replace
the traditional examination. The Civil Service Commission retaine
its independent existence as a government department until 1968
when, on the recommendation of the Fulton Committee Report on the
Civil Service, it was merged with the personnel management divisions
of the Treasury to form the Civil Service Department. In 1982 the
Civil Service Order in Council was changed so as to divide responsibility
for selection between the Civil Service Commissioners on one hand
and Ministers on the other. The Commissioners retained responsibility
for the selection of middle and senior level staff - about 15% of
the Civil Service. On behalf of their Ministers, departments assumed
full responsibility for selection at junior levels, constituting
the majority of recruitment, subject to central regulation by the
Minister for the Civil Service in support of the policy of selection
on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.
In 1991 two new Orders in Council were made (one
for the Home Civil Service and one for the Diplomatic Service with
parallel provisions as appropriate). These extended departments'
and agencies' area of responsibility to over 95% of recruitment
to the Service, subject to observance of the Minister's rules on
selection made on the advice of the Commissioners. At the same time
the Civil Service Commission was replaced by two discrete organisations:
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an Office of the Civil Service Commissioners
to support the Commissioners, which for resource purposes now
forms part of the Cabinet Office; and
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Recruitment and Assessment Services (RAS),
an Agency independent of the Commissioners set up under the
Next Steps initiative to provide recruitment, consultancy and
related services to departments and agencies and other public
sector bodies on a full repayment basis. RAS became a private
sector organisation under Capita Group plc on 1 October 1996.
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