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The Reed Group

The Reed Group encompasses 11 companies all created with the purpose of ‘improving lives through work’, to help work, work better for everyone.


Since we were founded in 1960 by Sir Alec Reed, we’ve committed to continuously looking for better ways to help people and businesses on their journey through the world of work, whatever that may be.

The Reed Group has a unique perspective, gathered from all our specialist businesses across the globe in different areas of the talent economy.

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Our companies:

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The largest family-run recruitment company in the world, and a pioneer of specialist recruitment services. We work with more than 30,000 organisations in the UK to fill their temporary, permanent and interim positions for 20 sectors.

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REED CO UK LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Reed.co.uk is one of the UK’s leading career marketplaces, connecting people to a world of career opportunities online. As well as jobs, Reed.co.uk offers courses and career advice. For recruiters and employers, it provides job advertising, a CV database with over 12 million candidates, plus recruiter advice and news.

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REED TALENT SOLUTIONS LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Reed Talent Solutions helps you navigate a complex workforce environment by working with you to design and deliver recruitment solutions at scale to help your business grow. Our digital solutions provide measurable benefits, so you can ultimately save time, money and above all, ensure you’re hiring the best talent for your organisation.

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REED SCREENING LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

When it comes to employee screening, we take care of your employment background checks. Reed Screening combines extensive experience with a comprehensive list of checks. The service is available 24 hours, seven days a week and, with a fast-track service, Reed Screening can produce results in hours, not days - so you can make the right hiring choices fast.

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REED COURSES LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Reed Courses is an online platform dedicated to helping you upskill and develop personally or professionally through the right learning opportunity. It is one of the UK’s fastest-growing course marketplaces, with 40,000 courses to choose from and covering over 726 different subjects, from higher education courses, CPD points to professional certifications.

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REED LEARNING LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Reed Learning is dedicated to delivering high-quality training and professional development. It specialises in inspiring and developing HR professionals through CIPD qualifications and apprenticeships via Watson Martin - a CIPD approved centre. Through a unique blend of delivery methods, on and offline, we can support you or your employees at every step of the journey to becoming CIPD qualified.

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REED BUSINESS SCHOOL LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Established in 1972, the Reed Business School is a UK centre of excellence for professional qualification tuition and boasts pass rates far above the national average. We specialise in finance and accountancy qualifications and focus on helping to equip our students with not only the skills and knowledge to achieve their professional qualifications, but create a unique and comfortable learning environment.

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REED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

At Reed Professional Services we specialise in developing partnerships with clients to provide clear solutions and specialist technical expertise with the help of our management consultancy and technology services providers. We assist both private and public sector organisations in saving millions of pounds and ultimately deliver big and small projects on time and on budget.

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Reed in Partnership’s mission is to positively transform people and their communities. We provide a range of public services that help people to change their lives for the better, including support with employment, health, skills, justice, assessments and youth development.

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REED WELLBEING LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

Reed Wellbeing's objective is to help businesses create healthy workplaces and support employee and community wellbeing. With the knowledge and data delivered by our products, we can aid your company in getting a clearer insight into health trends and risks and provide important guidance on how you can successfully address these, so you can have healthier and happier employees.

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REED FRANCHISE PARTNERSHIPS LANDSCAPE POS BLUE RGB

In 2021 we introduced Reed Franchise Partnerships, an exciting opportunity to bring international franchisees into our Reed family. After many years of establishing ourselves as an international community of recruitment experts, we want to help others use the Reed name to build their own business, with the help of our infrastructure, tools, and resources that can help them accelerate to success.

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The Reed Foundation is a charity set up by the founder of Reed, Sir Alec Reed in 1972. Over the past 10 years, the foundation has donated over £9.5 million to a wide variety of charities from a multitude of sectors, including environment and social mobility organisations here in the UK. Its purpose is to give back to the communities we work in and inspire a tradition of charitable giving as a company and with our co-members.

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