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The Recruitment Practice Standard is launched

Posted: Feb 13, 2011

Focusing on the promotion of excellence throughout the professional staffing industry, the Recruitment Practice Standard (RPS) is a unique web-based assessment hub and examination centre for professional recruiters.

Developed in partnership between APSCo (the Association of Professional Staffing Companies) and Innergy, as well as a team of experts from within the professional staffing industry, each examination has been developed to be thorough, challenging and a benchmark for industry excellence, creating the highest possible standards of trading practice

Professional staffing organisations use the Recruitment Practice Standard (RPS) logo to demonstrate both their commitment to their employees’ development as well as proof of their organisation’s levels of quality and expertise.

Recruiters use the Recruitment Practice Standard (RPS) letters of qualification after their names to display their levels of knowledge and proficiency.

The RPS has three levels of assessment based on how long an employee has been working in recruitment, such as (0-1 years, 1-3 years, 3-5 years etc) with each assessment comprehensively covering the key areas of knowledge expected at that level.

Each assessment has approximately 120 questions, split into six modular categories, and are randomly picked by the system from a library of questions to ensure that no two examinations are the same.

As an example, the six modular categories for Level 1 (0-1 years) cover the following areas:

Level 1      0 -1 years

1. Resourcing Part 1
2. New Business Sales or Resourcing Part 2
3. Taking a Brief
4. Managing the Recruitment Process
5. Candidate Selection / Matching
6. Legal Compliance

As you will note in this instance, module two has two options a user can elect to do, depending on whether they are tasked with new business development activities as part of their role, or are purely candidate focused.

To make each of the assessments more rigid, there is a predetermined time limit to complete each one, as you would do if sitting an A-level or GCSE examination.

Click here to visit the Recruitment Practice Standard website.