2024 has been a challenging year for the recruitment sector and our members have shown great resilience through tough market conditions. We look forward to welcoming new opportunities in 2025 and continuing to support your growth.
In our 25th year, we have launched a brand-new website to enhance your experience as well as adding new member services, including our Advanced Media Service to support members. Here are our highlights of 2024 and how we plan to support members in 2025.
Saving Costs and Increasing Productivity
- Advanced Media Service - Our Advanced Media Service helps members to optimise job board ad spend and cut advertising costs, whilst maintaining strategic impact. 2024 has seen an average saving of 18% on media contracts for recruitment businesses by using this service to date.
- Training and Development - Members receive an exclusive 25% discount on our Training and Development programmes to make training more accessible and allow members to upskill teams and boost performance without breaking the budget.
- A new supplier discount initiative is coming in 2025 to provide even more cost savings for members. The new programme will enable members to access exclusive discounts on valuable services provided by our best-in-class Trusted Partners. This includes offers on marketing, accounting, finance, legal and HR services.
- Legal Helpdesk - In the last year, we have completed an impressive 3,000+ queries with an average response time of 3 hours. This valuable service is free to members.
- Understanding the market - Our extensive market research and reports help members to understand current market conditions and create a strategy for where to go next. In 2024, we created 35 reports supporting sector knowledge, regional focus and international expansion.
Realising Your Ambition
- International Growth - APSCo membership supports you to unlock international opportunities. The APSCo team offers a suite of services to empower your journey towards expansion, including International Trade Delegations, Helpdesks, market research and the US Contract Service (strengthening support for US expansion).
- Events - We have held 114 events in 2024 (including 61 face-to-face events and 53 webinars) and we already have 81 events planned for the first half of 2025. We cover a diverse range of hot topics within the sector and offer valuable networking opportunities for members. In 2025, we will increase executive dining opportunities for all members and enhanced the value of all events with more interactive formats. View our events here.
- APSCo Disrupt - Our Disrupt thought-leadership events have been a popular addition to the events calendar as we seek to shape the future of the recruitment market in the coming years. This year, 135 APSCo members have enjoyed attending Disrupt, and 4000 of you have benefitted from our APSCo Disrupt reports.
Without being part of the APSCo Trade Delegation, it would have taken us at least 6 months to obtain this level of information.
Nick Bradley, Owner/Director, Adepto Technical Recruitment
- AI Conference - Our one-day virtual conference, AI Decoded, unpicked the intricacies of AI implementation and its transformative potential for recruitment businesses. Sessions from experts including Microsoft, PageGroup, LinkedIn and Accenture informed over 300 attendees on this workplace revolution.
- Framework Success - Our 60 Days to Framework Success programme is specifically designed to support members in every aspect of making your framework successful. Whether you work in healthcare, education or the wider public sector, this programme gives you the tools you need to transform the way you work with Frameworks.
- Awards for Excellence - APSCo’s Annual Awards for Excellence showcases the work of brilliant recruitment firms throughout the UK. The awards are a fantastic opportunity for our members to prove their commitment to delivering best-in-class services and provide a fantastic opportunity to promote their brand and win new business.
Representing Your Business
- At APSCo, we’re dedicated to helping you to protect your organisation and have your voice heard when it comes to new legislation, through our government lobbying and extensive work in Public Policy.
- Expert legal advice and support via our helpdesk, contract documentation and Inside Series.
- Our Research helps members to discover valuable data insights and guidance around hot topics in the recruitment market.
- 2025 brings significant legislative changes, with new regulations rolling out through 2026. Our Public Policy hub equips you to stay ahead of these changes.
- Regarding skills, we will make sure member recommendations are heard by Skills England and the Government in their design of the Growth and Skills Levy.
- In 2025, we also plan to build deeper relationships with regional mayoral authorities involving local member businesses.
- We will continue to support you through the legislative mind field which we are expecting in 2025 following the Budget announcement and the Employment Rights Bill.
Everyone at APSCo looks forward to working with you next year and supporting your business ambitions.