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FOI - Recruitment information 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2022 [Aug 2022]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA200722-5473

Date of response:

Summary of request

Your request

Please could you advise for the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022:

How many external hires were made at the GLA over this period for all vacancies?

What was your total recruitment spend for this period for all vacancies?

How much of this budget was spent on external agencies for all vacancies?

Who are these agencies and what was their total cost per agency?

Who is the senior responsible officer in relation to this budget?

Do you have a centralised recruitment team or are your recruitment budgets and responsibility managed by your service leads?

Who are these recruitment and service leads?

What is the organisational structure within your recruitment and HR teams?

Our response

In the reporting period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, the GLA made a total of 222 external appointments.

For further information see the Workforce Report covering the year ending 31 March 2022.

The GLA’s total recruitment spend in the reporting period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 was £729,979.61. This includes all external advertising spend and use of external recruitment agencies.

The total spend on external recruitment agencies was £177,888.00. External recruitment agencies used in the reporting period and the total spend with each agency are listed below:

Gatenby Sanderson Limited = £86,598.00
Capita Resourcing Limited (Veredus) = £91,290.00

The Senior Responsible Officer for this budget is Shakira Keddo, Assistant Director HR and Organisational Development.

There is a centralised Recruitment Team at GLA. Please see below the organisational structure within the Recruitment and HR Teams.

If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact me, quoting reference MGLA200722-5473.

Organisational structure within the Recruitment and HR Teams

                                       Reward and Operations Manager
                                                Resourcing Manager
     Resourcing Operations Adviser              Resourcing Operations Adviser            
      Resourcing Assistant        Resourcing Assistant        Resourcing Assistant

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