ROBERT WALTERS PLC (LON:RWA)

Robert Walters PLC is a UK-based global professional recruitment consultancy group. It is engaged in offering outsourcing services for recruitment process and specialist professional recruitment services. It was founded in the year 1985 and its headquarters are situated in London, UK. The company is listed and traded on the London Stock Exchange publicly. It has a substantial global footprint across 31 countries in six continents, covering the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific region, the United States, Brazil, South Africa, and Middle East. It has many subsidiaries, which include Robert Walters Switzerland Ag, Robert Walters (Hong Kong) Limited, Robert Walters Recruitment (Thailand) Ltd, Robert Walters Associates Inc. (USA), Shanghai Talent Spotter Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Robert Walters Limited (Ireland), Robert Walters Holdings Sas etc. The recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed services are provides by the Resource Solutions business of the company.

The ultimate goal of the company is to become the leading recruitment company in the world. It gives key priority to quality of recruitment and focuses on building long-term relationships with its candidates, clients like startups, SMEs, and large multinational enterprises. It provides consultancy, staffing, RPO, and managed services worldwide, with the recruitment expertise of its highly skilled and qualified workforce. Robert Walters PLC offers interim, contract, as well as permanent recruitment to people under its services for specialist professional recruitment. It is committed to matching people to jobs in accordance with their skills and abilities.

These recruitments are done across a wide range of professional disciplines, which include information technology, accounting and banking, legal and financial services, sales, and marketing, secretarial and support, Human resource, engineering, and supply chain and procurement. The growth strategy of the company focuses on global expansion and increasing its geographical footprint, and also on diversification of professional disciplines.

Robert Walters PLC follows high standards of corporate governance and aligns itself with the UK Corporate Governance Code. It has an ethical code of conduct for running its business activities. It promotes a culture of accountability, trust, and transparency. The company fulfils all its corporate responsibilities, but in addition to that it also fulfils its environmental and social responsibilities as well. It aims to maximize the returns and create long term value for all stakeholders, including clients, candidates, colleagues, and the wider community.

The company has been working with Global Angels Foundation since 2017 to find sustainable business solutions to help the disadvantaged communities, like providing them with healthcare, education etc. It even raises money for charities like Gustave Roussy (France), Vivekanand Charitable Trust (India) etc. Since 2015, all operations of the company have been fully Carbon Balanced across the globe. It strictly follows a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, and offsets its carbon emissions through the World Land Trust’s Carbon Balanced programme. It aims at generating high financial returns for the business while safeguarding the environment and creating meaningful social value for all.