When knew that I was catching up with Emma from Sky last week I had this idea of talking with her about recruitment stats. I wanted to get a feel for how much recruitment is done in house and how much by agencies/search firms. Interestingly it turns out that this is something Emma has just recently been looking at.
These figures are only for recruitment coordinated through HR (which is of course where Emma would like all recruitment to take place!) and we had to do a bit of a re-jig to get them to tally up in the context I was asking the question (so if you work for Sky don’t be too surprised if they aren’t exactly the same as what you are seeing!).
- 15% of hires are contingency placements from agencies
- 5% of hires are from retained recruitment agencies (mostly headhunt assignments)
- 60% of hires are direct placements (using press advertising, job boards, “working” internal employees’ networks, LinkedIn, etc)
- 20% internal recruitment
A lot of the 60% is lower level recruitment, such as the call centre vacancies. It’s more senior level and niche vacancies that are being put out to vacancies. 
Sky have a superb in-house recruitment function, and yet, with a couple of thousand roles filled last year that’s still a fair chunk of revenue coming the way of agencies. This attitude (and Sky aren’t looking to change the figures by the way) has got to be a great boost for the industry. As Emma said “we’ll always need agencies”.
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