HR News: New immigration and HPA requirements about hiring polo staff in the UK

When hiring staff this season make sure that your polo staff meet the legal requirements

The HPA are taking a strict view on players and grooms working within the UK without the correct legal requirements, permits and visas. Make sure that you understand the new rules and processes now involved in hiring staff from overseas.

Under the new immigration rules, employers (sponsors) must obtain a sponsors permit to legally hire employees as well as securing an HPA endorsement for each migrant polo player or groom they want to hire. Without this HPA endorsement, the player or groom will not be given HPA membership and therefore cannot play at any affiliated club or in any chukkas or game run by an affiliated club of the HPA.

The Border Agency dictates that only those who hold a handicap of two-goals or above may be granted a work permit as a player. It is important to note that those with a handicap of below two-goals are not allowed to earn money playing polo, but can come to the UK in another capacity, such as a groom or rider. This means that they would only be allowed to play chukkas.

For further information about these new rules, please read the full article on the HPA website here. 

The Polera can help you with recruiting staff for this season and can provide advice and contacts about the legal requirements and how to arrange for sponsors permits and visas. Please email our team now if you need help with arranging sponsors permits and work visas for your staff.

The Polera offer bespoke polo HR services

Are you looking to recruit new staff for your polo club for next season? Did you know that The Polera offer bespoke HR solutions to help you find suitable staff quickly and easily?

Our HR recruitment services operate in two ways: through job posting and advertising service through our social media networks, website, blog, facebook and twitter; and secondly through a more bespoke headhunting service conducted by us for you whereby we personally contact suitable candidates in our database and through our contacts and make a suitable selection for your review.

Our HR services rates are as follows:

Standard job posting/advertising package: £50 per ad per month the ad is run (posting on our website as well as on our blog, facebook, twitter and linkedin accounts). The ad can ask them to email their CV direct to us at thepolera@gmail.com (we will then forward these on to you) or to yourself.

Headhunting service: £POA* per employee introduction through our headhunting service. Once we have received applications for the position through our network we then review these and send you our recommendations with the CVs/resumes of the candidates but without their contact details. Should you then wish to contact the applicants for interview  we charge £POA* per applicant for the introduction and contact details. There are then no further charges after this for these applicants. 

*POA (Price on application) - we have different headhunting rates available depending on the type of position; polo manager, pro player, rider, groom etc and numbers of applicants you are looking for. If you have multiple positions you wish to fill through our headhunting service we are happy to negotiate a discount.

Email our team today at thepolera@gmail.com for more information.

Wanted: Polo grooms, farriers, riders and horse breakers!!

Calling all polo grooms, farriers, riders and horse breakers!! Are you looking for work? 


Then email us your CV today. We need polo grooms, farriers, riders and horse breakers urgently for positions we have on our books in the UK and overseas. 


Email the team your CV now to thepolera@gmail.com and we will help you find your next position.

Welcome to The Polera!

We are excited to introduce you to The Polera a bespoke service offering expert HR and marketing solutions for the polo network and equine community.

About us:

We are a human resources company exclusively for polo, providing recruitment services for polo players, patrons and polo clubs. We also provide promotional marketing, PR, website advice (from writing, editing, help with content management, design and translation) and promotional film services to the wider polo community including polo clubs.

The Polera is passionate about polo and we are made up of a team of experts from the polo pitch, marketing and film production industries. Together we offer you everything you need to market and promote your business under one roof. Whether you need help finding staff for the next season, advice on marketing your events, design tips and content ideas for your website or looking to film your matches and events, we can help you.

Recruitment:

If you are a polo player looking for work this season, a patron looking for players or a polo club looking for staff, then we can help you. Simply email us with some details about what you are looking for and we will actively help you with all your recruitment needs.

Sponsorship/Partnership opportunities with The Polera

We are launching The Polera ready in time for the 2011 British Polo Season and would like to welcome you to join us and discuss ways we could work together through a potential sponsorship, partnership or advertising opportunities. We would promote our sponsors and partners on our website, in our email newsletters, on our twitter and facebook site and in any other correspondence with polo clubs and polo players. We are planning on having trade stalls at all of the big polo tournaments this season and would be happy to promote your brand in conjunction with ours at these events. We also have a range of advertising opportunities available for your company.

We have a comprehensive database of contacts from polo players, to patrons and polo fans from all over the World that we can connect you with.

If you are interested and would like to find out more about sponsorship or advertising packages we have on offer, or would like more information about us please do not hesitate to contact us. We would be very keen to discuss the exciting possibilities of working together over the next season.

We look forward to working with you this season.

The Polera team

www.thepolera.co.uk