Freedom of Information Request about Recruitment

Your request was about the following information:

Please can we request the following information under Freedom of Information regulations:

Q1. How many new permanent hires joined your organisation in 2022?

Q2. How many new permanent hires came through external providers in 2022?

Q3. How many team members work in your Recruitment Team?

Q4. What is your time to hire from adverting to onboarding?

Q5. What was your attrition rate in 2022?

Q6. What is your average cost per hire (including attraction and screening) in 2022?

Q7. How much did you spend with external providers of permanent recruitment in 2022?

Q8. How many unique agency contractors/temps/interims did you use in 2022?

Q9. How much did you spend on agency contractors/temps/interims in 2022?

Q10. Are you meeting your diversity targets? (yes or no)

Q11. How many candidates applied for roles in 2022? What is your candidate drop-out rate?

Q12. Which systems do you use for your permanent recruitment process?

We then asked you for some further information in order to identify and locate the information that you have asked for. In particular, we asked you to clarify if your request was about the financial year 2022/23 or the calendar year 2022.

You replied confirming that your FOI request was about the calendar year 2022.

Q1. 19 permanent hires joined Food Standards Scotland (FSS) in 2022.

Q2. None of the permanent hires came through external providers in FSS in 2022.

Q3. In FSS recruitment is outsourced to Scottish Government (SG) Resourcing.

Q4. In FSS recruitment is outsourced to SG Resourcing.

Q5. FSS attrition rate is not one of the Human Resources (HR) Metrics, it is provided by SG HR MI team.

Q6. In FSS we don’t have this figure as recruitment is outsourced to SG Resourcing.

Q7. In FSS we spent nothing with external providers of permanent recruitment in 2022.

Q8. In FSS we used a total of 32 unique agency contractors/temps/interims in 2022. Please see below a detailed breakdown:

Agency contractors 4

Agency temps 3

Agency interims 25

Assignments for agency temps and interims ranged from a couple of months to a year, depending on whether appointments were coming to an end or at the start of a new one. Requirement for agency contractors is on daily/weekly basis. Provided the approximate full time equivalent number of staff that worked over the year.

Q9. In FSS we spent £648k on agency contractors/temps/interims in 2022. Please see below a detailed breakdown:

Agency contractors £168k

Agency temps £45k

Agency interims £435k

Q10. In FSS we are unable to comment yes or no as we do not have recruitment targets.

Q11. In FSS we do not have access to this information as recruitment is outsourced to Scottish Government Resourcing.

Q12. In FSS we use iCMS for our permanent recruitment process.