Gillespie People Solutions Ltd.

Staffing the recruitment industry from Scotland

Recruiters hiring other recruiters is a niche, and this Scottish consultancy works only in it. It describes itself as a leading specialist in recruitment to recruitment, known as rec-to-rec, and in-house talent acquisition, and the claim to lead is its own. It places staff with recruitment businesses and with internal talent acquisition teams, and it also advises candidates on their careers in the sector. Its work covers Scotland, the rest of the UK and overseas, and its site says it holds more rec-to-rec roles than any other agency.

Rec-to-rec vacancies across Scotland

The posts it handles are typical of a recruitment firm's staffing ladder: trainee and graduate recruitment consultants, recruitment consultants, senior consultants, resourcers, business development executives and business managers. The older vacancy listings were centred on Glasgow and Edinburgh, with others in Fife and South Lanarkshire.

Routes in for graduates

For recent graduates with some relevant commercial experience, the firm promotes recruitment as a career where the knowledge gained in study can be used. It runs a section about why people work in recruitment, and positions graduate and trainee consultant roles as the way in.

Support roles inside recruitment businesses

A recruitment organisation needs more than recruiters, the firm points out. No business can run without a support team managing finance, HR, IT, administration and facilities management, and the consultancy handles vacancies across all of those functions.

Oil and gas recruitment

Another strand is recruitment in the oil and gas sector, which has its own page on the site alongside the main recruitment-industry work.

How it works with clients and candidates

The firm says it brings years of recruitment experience, insight, integrity and passion for the industry, and that it succeeds by building relationships and trying to understand what makes each client or candidate different. It takes on one-off projects or the development and implementation of longer-term recruitment strategies, and it says everything begins with a conversation.

Gillespie People Solutions Ltd. is a recruitment-to-recruitment consultancy based in Scotland. It finds staff for recruitment agencies and in-house talent acquisition teams, and it advises people who want to start or build a career in recruitment.

What Gillespie People Solutions Ltd. does

• Rec-to-rec placements: recruitment consultants, senior consultants, resourcers and business managers for agencies.
• In-house talent acquisition: hiring for internal recruitment and talent teams.
• Graduate and trainee roles: routes into recruitment for recent graduates with some commercial experience.
• Support functions: finance, HR, IT, administration and facilities roles within recruitment businesses.
• Recruitment strategy: one-off projects or longer-term hiring plans for clients.

Clients

The firm fills roles across Scotland, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and South Lanarkshire, as well as elsewhere in the UK and overseas, and it has a strand of work in oil and gas recruitment.

Key facts

• Based in: Scotland, United Kingdom
• Specialism: recruitment-to-recruitment and in-house talent acquisition