Met Police wins Innovation in Recruitment and Retention Award at 2006 PT Awards
Hays Human Resources sponsors the Award for Innovation in Recruitment and Retention at the Personnel Today Awards, which was won in 2006 by the HR Directorate Team at the Metropolitan Police Service.
The Award recognizes effective approaches to selection, recruitment and retention of employees. The judges look for successful examples of developing and motivating staff and for innovative ways of attracting the right applicants.
Relevant to this category were new methods of recruiting, measuring and assessing capability and performance, career management, succession planning and competency testing. The judges also look for evidence of the organisation gaining competitive advantage from the strategies.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) - Winner in 2006
The Met’s HR Directorate looks after the interests of 48,626 employees and is itself 932 individuals strong.
“It means a lot to us as we have gone out to the heart of the community and not just waited for people to come to us. We are interacting with the community in more ways than one.
"Now we want to focus more and more on the areas where we are getting a good response. There is so much more we can do," said Sangita Katyal of the Met Police.
Some of the areas addressed included:
- Using innovative recruitment methods in its recruitment strategy
- Targeting under-represented parts of the community with recruitment bus
- Visited over 20 diverse communities, cultural and religious events
Judge Jane Burt commended the bus initiative, “The bus takes recruitment into the heart of the community, raising the profile of police vacancies and challenging perceptions by offering an informal way to engage with potential recruits”.
Click here for the full list of prize winners for 2006.
