Hire the way you want
With Brook Street
We’re the people that employers turn to when they want a local recruitment partner, but don’t want to compromise on transparency, quality or efficiency. We’re in towns and cities up and down the country, so we truly understand the challenges and opportunities that face employers. This means we take a completely tailored approach to hiring the people your business needs. It also means we’re the first port of call for local people looking for a new job - giving us an extensive talent pool of pre-qualified talent that are ready and raring to go.
Our on-the-ground experience is underpinned by a national infrastructure and state-of-the-art technology. This gives us the ability to seamlessly deliver end-to-end, responsive, analytics-led recruitment services that align to real-time business needs. It doesn’t matter if you’re recruiting on a one-off basis, or need longer-term support. It doesn’t even matter if you need to recruit one person or thousands. At Brook Street, we have all the experience needed to get your team up to full capacity and running at full speed. That’s why we’ve been the go-to recruiter for local employers for over 75 years.
What We Do
Our services and solutions
It doesn’t matter if you’re recruiting on a one-off basis, or need longer-term support to scale up your workforce. It doesn’t even matter if you need to recruit one person, or a whole team. At Brook Street, we have all the experience needed to get your team up to full capacity and running at full speed. That’s why we’ve been the go-to recruiter for local employers for over 75 years. Our recruitment services include:
Temporary & Permanent Recruitment
Thousands of employers turn to Brook Street every year, for temporary and permanent recruitment services that set their business apart. They choose us because we offer proven attraction tactics, rigorous screening and checking, value for money and swift results, no matter how last minute the request. Most of all, we offer a personal service. From offering 24/7 support, to enhanced compliance checks, and more – our tailored approach means we’ll find the perfect people to join your business.
Managed Services
For large scale hiring, our Managed Services allow you to completely outsource your company’s internal recruitment function to Brook Street. With the support of our dedicated onsite team, your HR team will be able to focus on core planning and management responsibilities, while we take care of the entire hiring process. From supplier screening to employer branding, and more - your organisation will benefit from enhanced quality, reduced risks, cost efficiencies and, most of all, peace of mind.
Preferred and Sole Supplier
You may not plan on recruiting in great volumes – but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some of the benefits of a more formal recruitment arrangement. Appoint us to your Preferred Supplier List (PSL), and when you’re ready to recruit, we’ll be able to start work immediately, significantly reducing your time-to-hire. Alternatively, you could make us your Sole Supplier. As your only recruitment partner, we’ll be able to simplify, refine and streamline every step of your hiring process, further reducing your time-to-hire and allowing for additional cost savings.
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How Brook Street Works
Delivering the best service to our clients
Our nationwide footprint and local expertise is underpinned by a national infrastructure and state-of-the-art technology. This means we can seamlessly deliver end-to-end, responsive recruitment services that align to local business requirements, no matter how many people you want to hire.
Our Branch Network
With over 50 branches up and down the country, we have on-the-ground understanding of local jobs markets. We’re firm believers that nothing beats the personal touch. We love to get out and about to meet local employers face-to-face. It means we can get to know the challenges and opportunities they face inside-out, and can create the perfect recruitment strategy for their needs. We can even offer 24/7 recruitment support if needed, so you can be assured that we’re never far away. Visit our branch locator if you’d like to have a chat with your local team.
Digital Platforms
We harness a suite of innovative technologies to ensure a seamless experience throughout the hiring process. This includes achieveIT – our unique online recruitment dashboard, which puts you in control of your workforce. No matter the time of day, achieveIT allows you to book temporary workers; arrange interviews; approve timesheets; review contracts; manage invoices; and more. Most importantly, it gives you complete oversight of the status of all your job vacancies, in real-time - with instant access to the analytics required maximise the potential of your workforce.
What Our Clients Think
Here is what some of our trusted clients are saying about us
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Since we awarded the contract to Brook Street, we’ve seen an increase in recruitment activity and they’ve successfully filled all the vacancies we’ve given them by going out to market with a fresh brand, which I think has been really important. We’ve seen a significant increase in the service that’s been provided by the outsourced relationship with Brook Street.
Adam Templeman
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This relationship will result in a dramatic improvement in service and will also give Thomson Reuters access to truly world-class capabilities.
Mark Sandham
Global HR Director
Specialist Expertise
Knowledge and understanding of your industry
One size never fits all. That’s why we have specialist recruitment consultants that are dedicated to supporting specific industries. They know your sector inside-out, so will completely appreciate the challenges and opportunities facing your business. This allows us to design and implement bespoke recruitment solutions that guarantee the results you need when hiring for both temporary and permanent staff.
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Accountancy and Finance
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Admin & Secretarial
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Contact Centre
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Human Resources
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Public Sector
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Retail
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Social Care
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From accounting support staff and part-qualified accountants, through to fully ACCA or FCCA qualified accountants and senior finance professionals - companies large and small turn to Brook Street for the best permanent and temporary finance talent. Because we make a point of understanding not just our clients’ business and workplace culture but also the markets in which they operate, we’re able to approach each hiring exercise with added perspective.
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When we first opened our doors in 1946, we focused on recruiting secretaries, administrators and management professionals. It’s continued to be our focus ever since. We’re renowned for placing great quality candidates, because we take the time to understand our clients’ exact and because we also fully assess every candidate who registers with us. This means we really can match the perfect person to your vacancies, taking into account their skills, knowledge, team fit, and more.
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We’ve created and delivered a range of high-volume, multi-location contact centre recruitment solutions for in-house and external operations alike, whilst also being entrusted to manage critical senior individual appointments. Our clients know we share their commitment to customer service excellence – giving them confidence in our ability to ensure we’ll always put the best people in place for them.
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With technology transforming how organisations operate, the role of HR has never been more important. From Learning and Development, to Recruitment and more – HR has shed its former image as a welfare and administrative function, and is now recognised as having a key role in influencing the direction of the wider organisational strategy. We’re proud to recruit and retain the workers our clients need to drive their business forward.
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We’re the UK’s largest supplier of temporary administrative and clerical workers to central government and the wider public sector. We currently recruit for over 300 individual government departments, NHS clients, agencies and public bodies. Accredited on six managed frameworks, we’ll work with you to find the most appropriate solution to your recruitment needs, ensuring that, whilst budgets remain high on the agenda, your future recruitment strategy doesn’t have to suffer.
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Our rigorous resourcing and selection procedures go much further than simply establishing our candidates' credentials, work history and competencies. Many of our dedicated retail recruitment consultants have worked in high profile retail roles themselves. So you can rest assured that we’ll recruit right people to take charge of your retail store and outlets, exactly when and where you need them. We can even manage specialist head office roles, too.
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