Recruitment firm ForceSelect, winner of the 2011 Recruiter Awards for Excellence’s Best Newcomer Agency category, is creating a working group to focus on how to help the UK’s service leavers to find jobs.

Last week, ForceSelect’s charitable foundation launched a report at the House of Commons, ‘Joining Forces’, on how to improve service leavers’ resettlement. The Ministry of Defence currently partners with outplacement firm Right Management to offer an intended single point of contact, Career Transition Partnership or CTP, for employers who wish to recruit exservice members.

However, more service leavers could be hired if there was more clarity about who employers and recruitment businesses should contact to find candidates, according to Stewart Taylor, director of client relations at City recruiter McGregor Boyall Associates.

Taylor said the problem wasn’t placing service leavers, but that as a recruiter: “I wouldn’t know where to start if I wanted to get people. The MoD is such a huge beast, with so many different bodies involved. Where do you find them? It’s almost they [must] come to us.

Commander John Warden, Navy head of resettlement, acknowledged that if staffing firms such as McGregor Boyall didn’t know who to contact that was an issue. He said CTP, a partnership between the MoD and Manpowerowned Right Management, had good relationships with many employers, such as BAE Systems.