Early Careers Adviser (FTC)

ENGINEERINGUK; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated Early Careers Adviser - Recruitment Specialist to enhance their recruitment processes. This role involves managing the entire early careers recruitment lifecycle, collaborating with partners, and ensuring a stellar candidate experience. The company offers a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and extensive benefits, including private medical coverage and generous family leave policies. If you're passionate about nurturing talent and want to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary & profit share

Flexible working arrangements

Travel coverage to any of our sites

Private Medical

Pension (8% employer contribution)

Health and Wellness programmes

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Professional development opportunities

Industry-leading family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing high-volume assessment centres.
• Strong understanding of the early careers landscape.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the full early careers recruitment lifecycle.
• Collaborate with external partners for Trainee campaigns.
• Manage high-volume remote assessment centres.

Skills

End-to-end Early Careers recruitment

Graduate recruitment

Talent Acquisition

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication skills

Job description

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The Vacancy

Early Careers Adviser - Recruitment Specialist (FTC)

Our Talent and Development team are looking for an Early Careers Advisor - Recruitment Specialist to develop and deliver key aspects of our Early Careers attraction, selection, recruitment, and onboarding journey, as well as overseeing elements of the development programmes to provide a first-class experience for trainees and apprentices.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Deliver the full early careers recruitment lifecycle in line with business needs and strategy, including Graduate, Undergraduate, Year in Industry placements, and Higher Apprenticeship programmes.
• Collaborate with external recruitment partners to develop and implement processes for our annual Trainee campaign, focusing on attraction, sourcing, assessment, diversity, and social mobility.
• Design attractive advertising and social media campaigns with our internal brand manager, promoting our programmes through diverse channels and supporting diversity and emerging talent initiatives.
• Manage high-volume remote assessment centres, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience.
• Build stakeholder relationships and support assessors with hiring decisions throughout the recruitment process.
• Deliver onboarding networking events and Trainee Inductions (face-to-face).
• Represent the Wates Trainee landscape with internal and external stakeholders.

To succeed, you should be highly motivated with a proven track record in end-to-end Early Careers recruitment, experience in graduate recruitment, or Talent Acquisition, and a strong understanding of the early careers landscape. Extensive experience managing high-volume assessment centres, influencing stakeholders, and excellent communication skills are essential. You should be comfortable with supplier engagement, managing deadlines, and working in a fast-paced environment. Willingness to travel nationally, including to our head office in Leatherhead, is required.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share
• Flexible working arrangements
• Travel coverage to any of our sites (subject to HMRC rates)
• Extensive benefits including Private Medical, Pension (8% employer contribution), Health and Wellness programmes, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, and more
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• Industry-leading family leave benefits, including 26 weeks paid maternity leave and 8 weeks paid paternity leave

This position requires a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we do not discriminate based on criminal record. Some roles may require additional pre-employment checks. For more information, see the National Security Vetting link.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building, and property maintenance companies, with over 125 years of history. Our purpose is 'reimagining places for people to thrive,' guided by our promises of thriving places, thriving planet, and thriving people.

We are proud to be recognized as a Gold Investors in People and a Disability Confident employer, committed to fair and inclusive recruitment processes.

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