Resourcing Advisor

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Resourcing Advisor to enhance the candidate journey and support recruitment efforts. This role is crucial in attracting top talent and engaging with stakeholders to ensure effective hiring practices. The successful candidate will utilize their expertise in recruitment strategies, market intelligence, and diversity initiatives to create a positive experience for applicants. With a focus on collaboration and understanding project needs, this position offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you are passionate about recruitment and eager to contribute to a forward-thinking company, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Degree or formal qualification in HR or recruitment is essential.
• Experience in recruitment practices and candidate management is required.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment activities and advise on resourcing requirements.
• Screen candidates and provide an excellent onboarding experience.

Skills

Recruitment practices

Candidate management

Boolean search techniques

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Market intelligence

Education

Degree in HR or recruitment

Hands-on experience in recruitment

Tools

eArcu

Invenias

PageUp

Application tracking system

Job description

Fixed term contract - 1 year

Start date - April 2025

A Resourcing Advisor supports the candidate journey and works with smaller stakeholder groups to support recruitment activities. The position will be based out of Dartford with travel to sites and offices when required. The position is to cover EPL for a period of 12 months.

Responsibilities:

The role will focus more on the candidate attraction, market intel and onboarding process with additional duties for stakeholder engagement. The position will work on pre-planning for projects, reactive recruitment and attraction methods.

• Advise on resourcing requirements, working with resource managers and hiring managers to identify and engage candidates.
• Utilise the existing database and job boards to proactively source candidates in a skills short market.
• Support resource managers on strategy, talent pooling, reactive resourcing and hiring campaigns, including taking hiring.
• Be an advocate for LOR D&I initiatives to enable opportunities for diverse candidates and transferable skills.
• Capture data on recruitment trends such as salary alignment, market intelligence, skills shortages, transferable skill sets and other useable data.
• Utilise the application tracking system to organise talent pools and select suitable applicants for positions.
• Understand the importance of diversity and inclusion and the company's goals and actively be involved in D&I agendas.
• Screen candidates against job description criteria, carry out initial phone screening and ensure the best match candidates are selected.
• Positively promote Laing O'Rourke and the employer brand.
• Spend time on projects and with hiring teams to fully understand requirements and expand your knowledge.
• Work closely with teams to reduce/mitigate contractor populations.
• Provide an excellent onboarding experience with communication and candidate relationship.
• Identify recruitment trends and report on market intel.
• Create effective advertising from hiring briefs and project knowledge.
• Keep up to date administration on notes, tracking of project resource plans.
• Support with internal movements when required.
• Advise hiring teams on the recruitment.
• Support the Resourcing operations team with tasks when required such as role approvals, support and systems changes.

Education/Previous Experience/Skills:

• A Degree / formal qualification in HR or recruitment or hands-on experience obtained by on-the-job experience.
• Understanding of recruitment practices and candidate management.
• Understanding of recruitment challenges.
• Knowledge of Boolean or other search techniques.
• Exposure to CRM, Candidate Attraction or similar recruitment systems such as eArcu, Invenias, PageUp.
• Able to work under pressure with a variety of tasks.
• Be part of a one team approach same goal approach.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.