Hays highlights tech specialists contributing to Manchester City’s success

Hays, the world's leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, has launched a new integrated campaign focusing on the tech specialists working behind the scenes and contributing towards Manchester City's success on the pitch.

Hays Technology, the Official Recruitment Partner of Manchester City, has created a four-part video series as part of its "Game Changers" campaign, each video features a different tech specialist helping to keep Manchester City at the cutting edge of football. The roles highlighted within the series includeAI Scientist, Digital Developer, Infrastructure Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer, each explaining their pivotal role in the Club's success.

James Milligan, Global Head of Hays Technology, commented on the videos; "Manchester City are one of the world's most successful and forward-thinking football clubs, and we're excited to be able to highlight just some of the Game Changers who contribute towards the Club's success throughout the season. The series highlights their importance, and it shows that the success of a Club is more than the 11 players on the pitch.

"Almost every business has a team of Game Changers, who are tech enabled professional's integral to organisations and their operations. In an increasingly interconnected world, where almost every role is impacted by technology, the importance of and demand for tech professionals will continue to grow. Many businesses around the globe are now building their own communities of Game Changers to help drive their businesses forward."

Hays Technology helps the Club and thousands of other organisations to build and maintain their digital ecosystems and communities by recruiting Game Changers into technology roles. As a trusted partner to thousands of tech professionals and tech enabled organisations around the world, Hays Technology shapes the tech world by reducing skill gaps and supporting the evolution of new roles through deep rooted expertise and approach to innovation, providing candidates, clients and Hays employees with the platform to create a more progressive world of work.

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Jonathan Beasley
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About Hays

Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Australia and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe, Latin America and Asia. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2021 the Group employed c.10,800 staff operating from 256 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2021:

- the Group reported net fees of £918.1 million and operating profit of £95.1 million;

- the Group placed around 60,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 220,000 people into temporary roles;

- 17% of Group net fees were generated in Australia & New Zealand, 27% in Germany, 22% in United Kingdom & Ireland and 34% in Rest of World (RoW);

- the temporary placement business represented 61% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 39% of net fees;

- Technology is the Group's largest specialism, with 26% of net fees, while Accountancy & Finance (14%) and Construction & Property (12%), are the next largest

- Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA