The HR and Employee Relations advice service provided by The Curve Group to our Leaders and Line Manager community has successfully freed up our internal HR Business Partners. They can now focus on strategic HR projects, safe in the knowledge that HR issues are being resolved efficiently and effectively by Managers with support from HR subject matter experts. The Curve Group have also proactively designed and delivered bespoke training sessions to upskill our employees which in my view demonstrates a true business partnership approach, their commitment to enhancing the service they provide and increasing the value they add.

I am delighted to have found an experienced, dedicated, customer-centric outsource partner in The Curve Group. We continue to have strong growth plans at Gatehouse Bank and know how essential our people are to achieving our ambitious objectives. Therefore, it was really important when selecting a recruitment outsource partner that they not only shared our commercial ambitions and focus on ethics, but that they also possessed demonstrable capabilities to ensure we attract and develop a motivated and empowered workforce. Working in partnership with The Curve Group has substantially reduced my concerns around recruitment.

The Curve Group were recommended to us during a pivotal time in our business when we were looking closely at our internal people infrastructure. We initially engaged them to support us with a number of HR consultancy projects and it quickly became clear how much they were willing to invest in learning about our business, understanding our values and culture and how committed they were to meeting and exceeding our needs. Following a successful 12 months of working together on a consultancy basis, the natural step was to outsource recruitment to The Curve Group in order to further leverage their expertise and proven methodologies, ensuring an enhanced recruitment experience.

We chose The Curve Group as our recruitment outsource partner because we needed to resource a brand-new, multi-skilled team to commence delivery of a new employability programme at speed and they have a proven track record of successfully hiring at volume and pace across multiple locations. Our businesses also share the same mission of transforming lives, fostering an instant synergy. Knowing that The Curve Group could deliver the entire, end to end recruitment process on our behalf, working under our own brand, adopting our existing processes, and managing the candidate experience all the way through to onboarding, was a real selling point.

Our partnership with The Curve Group has provided the resilience, capacity and capabilities required to underpin our HR function whilst also reducing our fixed costs overheads. We chose to outsource to The Curve Group because of their proven capabilities of providing HR and recruitment solutions at scale, their experience in our industry and their commitment to delivering a high touch, quality service for our employees whilst embedding best practice, technology led processes. As a client, we benefit from access to a comprehensive range of expertise and solutions spanning the entire employee lifecycle and have been able to evolve and scale our service to meet our needs.

Since we started working with The Curve Group, Propel has undergone a significant business transformation, including a full rebranding, opening new office premises, increasing customer offerings and super scaling of our team. The Curve Group have been an instrumental partner during this time – providing a blend of invaluable support across recruitment, developing and rolling out large-scale internal induction and external Partnership training programmes. They are an absolute pleasure to partner with and as our business model continues to progress, I know they’ll be looking at how they flex, evolve and adapt so that the service remains aligned to our needs.

We have been working with The Curve Group since 2014. They work seamlessly alongside our internal HR team and Hiring Managers to deliver an exceptional, high touch, fast paced, end-to-end recruitment process. This is so important in a candidate led market, where a quality hiring experience is critical in order to secure the very best talent. As we continue with IESA’s ambitious growth plans and acquisition of new global contracts, The Curve Group have expanded the scope of our partnership to cater for international hiring. Since the start of our partnership in 2014, we have saved a staggering £1 million+ in recruitment costs - this is a great result for the business.

Working with The Curve Group has been a breath of fresh air. Their professional and credible approach with us as a client put us at ease from the start, knowing that this company was essentially representing us to high level candidates. They took the time to understand our role, they helped us to really understand what we wanted and needed. They delivered exactly what we asked for, but also introduced a candidate that was a bit of a “Curve” ball but thought we should have a look. We looked, we liked and we hired. Our new hire also shared with us that she had had a great experience as a candidate with Curve too. I would highly recommend The Curve Group.

The decision to outsource to The Curve Group has already had a remarkable impact on our team’s workloads, meaning we can now all focus our attention on the important work of the charity. As a business, we know that our HR operations – both the practical, day to day HR administration plus the more tactical provision of expert support and guidance – is in safe hands. Our employees feel more supported and our leadership cohort is confident that our HR operations are compliant, efficient and successful. We also benefit from being able to access The Curve Group’s wider HR expertise to support additional projects - we're now working with them to enhance our focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.