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When you want to grow your business, recruiting the right people for the job is essential. However, it’s rarely an easy process. You need to identify people with the right skills, expertise, qualifications and mindset to join your business to make sure you recruit the highest calibre of candidate. Get the right person, and they’ll deliver organisational objectives and contribute to the performance, development and profitability of your company.
Our team of HR experts provides step-by-step recruitment and selection support to hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. They know what to look for in a job application, the questions to ask at an interview and how to find that perfect person who will fit like a glove.
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Support with the Recruitment Process
Howarths provides hands-on recruitment support to help you build a brilliant team.
We can help at every stage, from creating bespoke recruitment and selection procedures and assessing the suitability of CVs, to attending and carrying out interviews on your behalf or with a member of your team.
We’ll consult with you throughout the process, sharing our honest feedback on the suitability of candidates. Then, when you’ve found the person you need, we can support you with creating job offer letters and staff induction packs, before working with our employment law team to create contracts of employment.
Recruiting the wrong candidate can be costly and leave you back where you started. Work with our expert team and you’ll always be one step ahead.
Candidate Interview Support
We hold job interviews for SMEs that don’t have the expertise needed or time required to conduct a thorough interview process.
Working with you, we’ll arrange a candidate interview schedule and then attend each interview to ensure the right questions are asked to get you the right person for the role. Some of our clients like to sit in the interviews with a member of our team, while some like to hand the entire process over to us before we present them with our recommendations.
We can provide interview support at your place of work, over the phone or remotely via video call, making the interview process as flexible and efficient as possible, both for you and your interviewee.
Our team of specialists are ready to help your business today
Arrange a free consultation nowSupport with Equal opportunities and Discrimination
It’s crucial employers follow a fair and effective recruitment and selection process based purely on a candidate’s ability to perform the role and their potential for development within the organisation.
Howarths can support you to ensure this is the case. We’ll create and implement structured and in-depth recruitment procedures for your business and provide comprehensive recruitment and selection training to ensure any colleagues in charge of recruiting have the relevant training and experience to conduct interviews with confidence.
We can help you fully understand equal opportunities legislation and provide awareness training on how discrimination can occur both directly and indirectly in the recruitment process.
A word from our clients...
“With over 40 retail stores across the UK and employing over 200 staff, it is extremely important that we are supported by a professional and competent team. Moda In Pelle have been working with Howarths for over 9 years now and their pragmatic, commercially focused legal support has been crucial in adding value to our business operations.”
Moda In Pelle
“The team at Howarths are always available to talk to and offer clear advice and have supported us through some tough periods of change. I would recommend Howarths for all of your employment law, HR and H&S needs.”
Goodlife Foods
“At Howarths we get exactly what we need - a personal service, tailored to our needs. All the team at Howarths are great and we know that when we do have a query that we will get the most appropriate advice, in a timely manner that is easy to understand. We would not hesitate in recommending Howarths.”
Sheards Accountants
``The knowledge base, commitment and attention to detail are second to none; it's refreshing to partner such a forward thinking, competent HR provider who delivers real value to our organisation.”
Vickers Laboratories
``Howarths' knowledge and skill can always be relied upon. Just as importantly, their friendly and personal touch instills confidence at all times.”
Kirklees Stadium Development Limited
``We have found the support and advice from Howarths invaluable. I would highly recommend the Howarths team to any company. You never know when you may need them.”
The Pink Link
“Howarths provide an invaluable service and provide a level of reassurance that professional advice is always on hand at a time when the business needs it.”
Oustmart Agency
“The team at Howarths offer you professional advice, support and comfort in your HR needs when you need it and you know that the advice will be accurate and above all within the current guidelines due to their excellent background in Employment Law. They are also a great source of training in all aspects of HR and it's all delivered in an easy to understand manner for myself and my team”.
Keystone Europe
“A competent, honest and highly professional company. The staff are passionate about their jobs, welcoming and supportive. The advice they give both verbally and in writing is always promptly delivered and instils me with confidence, even in the most difficult of situations”.
Wakefield Independent School
“We have used Howarths for several years now and to know that we have such a reliable, professional and knowledgeable organisation at the end of the telephone who can advise and guide us in all aspects of HR is worth its weight in gold”.
Robert Watts Estate Agents
“We know that should an issue arise, we can rely on them for step-by-step advice on how to deal with it. In our dealings with Howarths we have found that issues are dealt with promptly and with utmost professionalism”.
R&L Enterprises Ltd
“Howarths has become an invaluable asset to the essential smooth running of our business and in safeguarding our employee relationships; the friendly, professional service has become a cost-effective “can’t do without” business tool”.
Universal AV
“Howarths have been supporting Children’s Place’s employment practice for the past 7 years. We have always been impressed by how positive and professional all members of the team are. The support we receive is invaluable, as it is always effective and dealt with in an efficient timely manner. With a staff team of around 200, Howarths really do support our employment practice in all aspects of delivery”.
Children’s Place Ltd
“Aztek International has been a happy client of the Howarth Partnership for over ten years. On the rare occasion where you need their service, they react immediately, and it is good to have someone who is on your side. They will always guide you down the right track and make sure you do not make any impulsive mistakes. It is great to have someone you can have an open conversation with, and get great advice back”.
Aztek International
“Having been successfully supported by the team at Howarths for nearly five years now, we can confidently say that the highly tailored advice, guidance, documentation and most importantly, practical solutions offered to us by all its team members has always been of the highest standard and extremely responsive. A relationship with Howarths is therefore a must-have for all businesses in this day and age!”
DIP
“Howarths have been supporting us and our clients for many years. We have always received expert practical advice. No problem or quick question is too small or too much trouble”.
GL Barker Accountants
Although our current providers drastically reduced their rates I knew that from the moment Tracey arrived, and had then gone through what they could offer, Howarths seemed the right kind of people for us”
Triton Security
``As we have grown over the past couple of years, our relationship with Howarths has become a key part of the business. They are both pro-active and re-active to events happening in the world and our business, and have become a key member of the group”.
Approved Food
“We had been using the services of Howarths for several years on an ad-hoc basis until Gavin advised we would be better off using their yearly contract package. We now sign up every year safe in the knowledge that Gavin and his team will be there when we need them for all of our employment related questions. Excellent service and advice always given.”
Feather Diesel
“I would not hesitate in using / recommending Howarths – a dedicated, reliable and honest company across the board”.
John Alderson & Son
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