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This is a list of militaries that recruit foreign applicants. This includes any individuals who are aliens of the polity whose armed forces they are being recruited to join by professional recruiters. The foreigners do not need to be legal residents of that nation, but may gain legal residence status by joining the armed forces.
Hays is a specialist recruitment group with operations in the UK and Ireland, Continental Europe (in Germany pronounced Hei(s), as health=Hei(l)), the Americas and Asia Pacific regions. [10] It has a fairly equal balance of work in temporary and permanent recruitment, which contributes to financial stability through business cycles. [11]
Six of the countries with a fixed UK military presence are featured on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's list of 30 "Human Rights Priority Countries": Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. [3] A number of British military operations have relied heavily on the strategic island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands.
The first known private employment agency Robinson, Gabbitas & Thring, was founded in 1873 by John Gabbitas who recruited schoolmasters for public schools in England. [3] In the United States, the first private employment agency was opened by Fred Winslow who started an Engineering Agency in 1893.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office employs approximately 13,200 staff in the UK and in more than 260 Posts overseas. Approximately one-third of these employees are UK-based civil servants (including members of HM Diplomatic Service) and two-thirds are employed locally by Posts overseas. [8]
Reed is an employment agency based in the United Kingdom. [2] The company was founded in 1960 by Sir Alec Reed CBE. Reed's son, James Reed CBE, is the current chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). [3] The company's website, reed.co.uk, established in 1995, was the UK's first employment website. In 2014, Alexa ranked reed.co.uk as the UK's ...
The following British Overseas Territories maintain representative offices in London. [3] Anguilla (Representative Office) Bermuda (Representative Office) British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands (Representative Office) Gibraltar (Representative Office) Montserrat (Representative Office) Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
The company acquired Olsten Staffing in late 1999, and became the largest recruitment company in the U.S., with a combined revenue of €11.6 billion. [15] UK recruitment company Spring Group was acquired in 2009, [16] and a year later in 2010, Jacksonville, Florida-based staffing firm MPS Group was acquired for an estimated 1.3 billion. [17]