1. HUDSON
HOME COUNTIES

2. hudson: an overview
Hudson is one of the world’s leading
providers of permanent recruitment, contract
professionals, outsourced solutions and
talent management services. With nearly
2,500 employees in over 20 countries, we
help our clients achieve greater organisa-
tional performance by assessing, recruiting,
developing and engaging the best and
brightest people for their businesses.
Getting the best from talented people
begins with a well-crafted recruiting strategy
to attract individuals with the capacity for
success. It takes reliable, accurate assess-
ment and selection methodologies. It also
requires effective solutions to engage,
develop and retain people, underscored
by a commitment to building a diverse and
inclusive workforce.
From single placements to outsourced
solutions, we translate human capital strate-
gies into practical actions and measurable
results. Beyond placing candidates into
contract, interim and permanent roles, we
help clients implement effective long-term
recruiting and retention strategies. Our
underlying goal is to improve performance
at every level, so that the whole becomes
greater than the sum of each individual’s
expertise.
Currently, Hudson UK & Ireland operates
across ten offices in the region, all providing
localised specialist services to each market.
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3. HUDSON
IN THE HOME COUNTIES
Based in Milton Keynes and Reading,
Hudson has been serving the Home Coun-
ties region for more than 20 years. Whilst
Hudson is a global recruitment business,
within the Home Counties we have a highly
‘localised’ approach and understand that our
clients and candidates want to partner with
a consultancy that can offer local knowledge
and expertise.
The key to our success is our ability to
understand our clients’ needs. We are
passionate and take time to realise the
challenges that might be faced in both
attracting and retaining key talent. We strive
to be recognised as an extension to the
recruitment process by our clients, through
offering a credible and value added service.
Our consultants have on average a decade
of experience within their specialised local
and functional markets. Drawing on this
experience, we are able to develop a deep
understanding of our clients’ challenges and
needs. Our track record ensures we have an
established network of contacts and talent
to draw from.
Our client approach is something we are
proud of; we are honest, open and focused
on delivering the end goal. This often results
in our clients becoming candidates, and
candidates becoming clients.
Across the region, we specialise in the
following specialist functional areas:
|| Executive Appointments
|| Accounting & Finance
|| HR
|| IT
|| Telecommunications
|| Marketing & Communications
|| Legal
|| Sales
|| Supply Chain & Procurement
|| Public Sector
Our client list is varied, ranging from
privately owned businesses and SMEs
through to FTSE 100’s and household Blue
Chip companies. Our services include the
following:
Recruitment
From traditional search, advertising and
database selection approaches to innovative,
web-based attraction and recruitment
solutions for both permanent and contract
professionals.
Talent Management
A suite of high quality solutions around
talent selection, development and effective-
ness, provided by our specialist team
of business psychologists and HR profes-
sionals.
Outsourced Solutions
Hudson has proven capability to provide a
range of solutions for clients and has core
competencies in all areas of Recruitment
Process Outsourcing and Volume Recruit-
ment.

4. SPECIALIST CAPABILITIES
Hudson is widely recognised as a UK &
Ireland market leader in the provision of fi-
nance professionals and can demonstrate
a significant track record of success.
With consultants recruiting across
Commerce & Industry, Financial Services,
Practice and the Public Sector from
part-qualified level through to Finance
Directors and Executive Appointments,
this team is a mix of accountants, gradu-
ates and experienced recruiters.
Positions covered, on a permanent,
contract and interim basis, include
Management Accounting, Financial
Accounting, Commercial / Business /
Financial Analysis, Financial Manager /
Controller, Internal Audit and Systems
Accounting, in addition to more specialist
project roles.
In the HR market, change is constant and
rapid, and finding future talent is becom-
ing a real challenge. Partnering with
clients and candidates, our consultants
use their in-depth market knowledge to
build close, advisory relationships and
source HR professionals that will fit with
your organisation.
Working across the Financial and
Professional Services, Commerce &
Industry and Public Sectors, we recruit
for a complete range of organisations,
from new ventures to many of the world’s
best-known companies, helping mid to
senior executive professionals find their
ideal roles. With the increased demand for
interim professionals in the HR arena, we
also have dedicated consultants providing
flexible resourcing for short, medium and
long-term assignments.
Established, well-networked and market
aware, Hudson IT brings mid to senior
executive IT professionals and businesses
together. We do not supply everyone, only
like-minded businesses that are looking
for true value for money from a business
partner willing to listen.
With over 25 years’ experience in provid-
ing permanent and contract IT recruitment
solutions, an extensive global office
network with UK and Ireland locations,
we have the resources and IT expertise
to enable an organisation to recruit, retain
and develop staff locally and globally.
We work with both business facing and
technical specialist IT professionals across
a range of sectors, including extensive
coverage of the Public Sector. Our
outstanding level of service is evident in
the many organisations we have member-
ship with or are accredited by – these
include APSCo, SFIA, IBEC REC and
Investors in People.

5. Hudson Legal is a leading provider of
professionals to the legal industry within
the Home Counties. The majority of our
consultants are qualified lawyers and have
extensive knowledge of the legal recruit-
ment market.
Our Private Practice Team sources
high calibre candidates across all levels
of experience, from partners and senior
associates through to paralegals and
newly qualified solicitors.
Our In-house Team is the UK’s leading
in-house recruitment practice, providing
professional recruitment services to
corporations and public sector bodies.
We source qualified lawyers, general
counsel, company secretaries, patent and
trademark attorneys, commercial and
contract managers, paralegals and legal
executives.
Hudson Legal recruits on a retained,
contingent, temporary or contract basis
offering flexibility to recruitment solutions.
PUBLIC
SECTOR
Businesses today demand that Marketing
& Communications professionals possess
traditional marketing skills alongside an
ability to turn their hand to digital and viral
marketing techniques. Hudson Marketing
& Communications are well placed to
secure a professional who understands
and meets today’s requirements for your
organisation. Each campaign we under-
take is tailored specifically for our clients’
requirements and we employ a range of
online and talent management expertise
to source the best available talent.
The team handles mid to senior level
marketing and communications roles
within their own specific vertical market
sector. We transact permanent, interim
and executive recruitment appointments,
a significant number of which are retained
search and selection projects. Sectors
include Commerce & Industry, Financial &
Professional Services, Public Sector and
Not - for -Profit.
Hudson’s 20 years experience in the Pub-
lic Sector encompasses the recruitment of
mid to executive level professionals across
all areas of the sector, including central
and local government, the NHS, education
and not-for-profit organisations.
At Hudson we have a thorough
understanding of the complexities of the
public sector, particularly around issues
of diversity and inclusion. We understand
public sector processes and the need for
complementary recruitment practices that
are timely and efficient.
We deliver a responsive, professional
and high quality service. Whether your
department or agency is small or large,
whether you’re looking for a permanent or
temporary employee, whether it’s one role
or many – we can help you.

6. PUBLIC
SECTOR
Hudson Sales in the Home Counties deliv-
ers specialist recruitment services across
B2B service sectors, telecommunications
and technology, providing permanent
and interim sales recruitment solutions
from mid level to executive appointments.
This specialist division delivers recruit-
ment assignments for a wide range of
companies, from SMEs through to major
blue chip organisations. With an extensive
suite of innovative recruitment tools, our
team source candidates from database,
advertised selection, targeted search or
specialist internet search campaigns –
quickly and cost effectively.
PUBLIC
SECTOR
PUBLIC
SECTOR
Hudson Supply Chain & Procurement is
one of Europe’s largest and most effective
industry specialist recruitment teams.
Our client portfolio, spanning SMEs to
listed and multi-national companies, is
impressive and ever growing. We pride
ourselves on the broad range of clients
who actively seek to partner with us to
recruit for professionals from mid to senior
executive level.
Without question, people are the key to
our success. Our team is enthusiastic,
dedicated, knowledgeable, focused and
passionate, and, combined with strong
communicative ability, collaborative style
and creative thinking, we are uniquely
equipped to respond to our clients’ diverse
requirements. We also strive to provide
high value candidates that can leverage
profit and process, deliver significant
returns on investment and reduce risk and
costs.
In an industry that’s all about connecting
people, Hudson Telecoms brings mid to
senior level Telecoms professionals and
businesses together within fixed or mobile
telecoms.
We work with an extensive client base,
from the main Telecoms companies
to niche specialists, and within broad
technical markets including, but not limited
to, OSS, project/programme management,
radio design, IP design and convergence;
RAN; business analysts and VOIP.
Operating within specific technical
markets and technologies enables us
to provide a high level of expertise to
our clients, within a real-time delivery
timescale. We provide a full range of
recruitment services, from executive
recruitment to retained and project-based
assignments, on both a permanent and a
contract basis.
A clear focus on team performance and
an impressive track record of delivery
means that repeat and exclusive business
is achieved with the majority of our clients..

7. an integrated approach
to recruitment
Making the right hire, whether on a
permanent or contract basis, is no longer
purely a case of matching someone with a
technical specification and job description.
It is increasingly leaning towards finding
someone with the same cultural aspirations,
the same approach to work as the organisa-
tion and someone who can add value, not
only to a job, but also to the development of
a company’s personality.
For employers, the cost of making the
wrong hire can be between 3 and 5 times
an employee’s annual salary according to
the Harvard Business School. While for
specialist functions the cost can be up to 10
times their annual salary, meaning the wrong
hire can be costly!
The key to limiting this risk is using a
thorough and robust recruitment process
that combines the traditional methods of
interviewing and assessment with tools
focused on getting “under the skin” of the
candidate.
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step 1: advisory
It goes without saying that we will use our expertise and
experience to offer advice and guidance on the best
approach appropriate to your needs. However, we offer a
formalised advisory process that enables you to establish
highly specific requirements at the onset…
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step 2: attraction
Hudson offers modular candidate attraction solutions
and elements of the offering are combined to produce
the optimum, tailor-made strategy for each individual
client.
Our R&D facility in Belgium has produced a series of
innovative online attraction tools that give you full visibility
of your recruitment campaigns.

8. RECOMMENDATION
& SELECTION
CLIENT
INTERVIEW
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BOARDS
HUDSON CAN
SHORTLIST
BUSINESS
ATTITUDE
QUESTIONNAIRE
COMPETENCY
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F2F INTERVIEW
CANDIDATE
PRE-SCREEN
step 3: ASSESSMENT & SELECTION
The right choice can not be made on “gut feel” alone and
whilst informal interviews have their place, Hudson ensures
a robust interview and assessment process that put the
science behind your decision. We include competency
based face-to-face interviews and psychometric profiling
as standard elements of the recruitment process.
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REVIEW
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step 4: PLACEMENT & FOLLOW UP
Hudson manages the referencing, contract and offer
process, and ensures that both the client and candidate’s
expectations are realised on commencement of the role
and beyond.

9. what makes us
different?
We believe there are a number of differentia-
tors that provide us, and our clients, with
significant competitive advantage.
Practice Group
Specialisation
Structuring our practices around specific
functional disciplines promotes recruitment
expertise and faster service delivery. Our
recruiters and account managers focus
exclusively within a particular position and/or
niche, creating insider insight into the market
for talent.
Integrated Recruitment
Solutions
Hudson can integrate recruitment and
staffing services with in-house talent
management solutions that not only help
clients attract and objectively select the
most talented candidates, but also help them
fully engage and develop their employees.
These integrated assessment and consulting
services provide our clients with a “one-stop”
recruitment and talent management partner.
Local Expertise with
Global Reach
With nearly 2,500 employees in more than
20 countries and more than $1 billion in
revenue, Hudson is one of the largest pro-
fessional staffing and services firms in the
world. Combined with local market knowl-
edge and expertise, we create customised
programmes that take into account factors
of cost, culture, and geographic reach.
Brand and National
Coverage
With 10 offices across the UK and Ireland
we hold a competitive advantage in being
able to co-ordinate national recruitment
drives. With our strong brand and presence
in national publications, we attract and
maintain relationships with the best talent in
the market.
Technology & Innovation
In a world where technology is rapidly
changing and progressing, recruitment
companies must meet the needs of the
dynamic nature of both candidate and client
behaviour. Uniquely, we have partnered with
Google, and use this search technology
on our extensive database. This allows us
to search specific CV content rather than
remain within parameters of traditional
search terms.
Additionally, our Research & Development
facility in Belgium have developed a number
of innovative and leading-edge tools for the
attraction and management of your talent
pool.

10. the way we work
Our standards
Hudson is a values-led organisation. As
a publicly owned global business, we are
committed to acting ethically in the interests
of our stakeholders within the regulatory
and financial frameworks of the societies in
which we operate.
Our corporate values represent the ethos of
our business, and each of our consultants
and all staff members are committed to
ensuring they work according to them.
Hudson’s values are:
|| Respect
|| Collaboration
|| Empowerment
|| Integrity
|| Responsibility
But how do we measure this? And how
does Hudson help its staff to reach such
high standards? We have created a set
of Operating Guideline Principles which
act as a constant reminder that we have a
responsibility to each other and to the clients
and candidates that we engage with.
Finally, we have developed and established a
set of formal rules and processes that allow
our people to ensure that their day to day
actions are constantly serving the needs and
best interests of our clients and candidates.
DIVERSITY, INCLUSION
& CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
At Hudson, we have seen our diverse work-
force encourage creativity and innovation.
This is why it is a critical step in our recruit-
ment process and why we have established
a global diversity mission statement:
“Valuing the differences among our
employees and candidates allows us to
better serve the needs of clients worldwide.
We actively recruit candidates from many
different perspectives and backgrounds and
promote a culture that allows all employees
and candidates to contribute to their fullest
potential.”
We take our responsibility to the wider com-
munity very seriously and have developed a
Corporate Social Responsibility framework
that covers the following:
1. Ethical Business Conduct
2. Policies Specific to Employees
3. Community Commitment
4. Environmental Policy
For further information on any of the above,
please visit our website or contact us at your
nearest office.

11. what our clients have
to say about us
Below are some examples of what clients in the Home Counties have said of their
experiences working with Hudson:
My consultant is clearly passionate
about what she does. She took the
time to understand the business - we
met once and immediately she knew
what I was looking for and found them
(candidates). Would have absolute faith
in her ability to support me in the future
(and she’s fun to work with too!).
Healthcare Multinational
My Hudson consultant’s excellent communication, work
ethic and professionalism shone throughout the process,
and she spent time understanding our business and the
needs for each role specifically. Her desire to provide me
with appropriate CVs based on experience and appropri-
ate fit for our company’s culture proves her dedication to
the service that she provides. I would highly recommend
Hudson for any recruitment opportunity in the future.
Software House
I was very impressed
with my consultant
and the questions
she asked to obtain a
good understanding
of the role and the
culture of the team.
International
Airline
Hudson has an
excellent grasp of
our requirements
and of course
this was born out
in a successful
placement.
Global Energy
Group
My consultant is not your
typical consultant! She’s
always very nice and hon-
est. She has good technical
knowledge of roles that we
have worked on together
and she is leading the way
compared to the others I
have dealt with.
Retail Banking
Great personal ser-
vice from Hudson.
They worked very
hard on keeping
me informed on
progress.
Hudson has an excellent
understanding of our needs and
provides excellent service.
UK Financial Services
& Property Group
European
FMCG Company

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