Talent Acquisition Advisor

Workman; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Study support

Discretionary annual bonus

Healthcare

Life insurance

Wellness programme

Long service holidays

Birthday day off

Between-Christmas break

Gym membership

Cycle to work

Holiday buy/sell

Social events

Referral bonus

Job summary

Workman in Guildford is seeking a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our HR team as we support growth across commercial property and real estate sectors. You will partner with hiring managers to deliver end-to-end recruitment solutions for roles spanning property management, building consultancy, property finance, and central support functions.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage the full lifecycle, develop sourcing strategies, and coordinate interviews to ensure an excellent candidate experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in a recruitment, talent acquisition, or resourcing role.
• Experience recruiting within property, real estate, facilities management, surveying, construction, or professional services environments would be beneficial.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously.
• Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), ideally Workable.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from vacancy briefing through to offer and onboarding.
• Develop effective sourcing strategies and recruitment plans tailored to business requirements.
• Manage vacancies through the Applicant Tracking System (Workable), ensuring a smooth and compliant recruitment process.
• Complete initial CV screen activities
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring an excellent experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Conduct interviews and assist with candidate assessment and selection.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external recruitment partners and support management of the Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
• Assist with graduate, apprenticeship and early careers recruitment initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Recruitment strategy

End-to-end recruitment

Candidate experience

Tools

Workable

Job description

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our HR team in Guildford. This role will support a period of business growth and recruitment activity across a diverse range of functions within the commercial property and real estate sector.

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will partner with hiring managers to deliver end-to-end recruitment solutions, helping attract and secure exceptional talent across property management, building consultancy, property finance, and central support functions.

This is a fast-paced and highly collaborative role, ideal for someone who enjoys managing multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously and is passionate about delivering a high-quality recruitment service.

Day to day, you’ll

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from vacancy briefing through to offer and onboarding.
• Develop effective sourcing strategies and recruitment plans tailored to business requirements.
• Manage vacancies through the Applicant Tracking System (Workable), ensuring a smooth and compliant recruitment process.
• Complete initial CV screen activities
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring an excellent experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Conduct interviews and assist with candidate assessment and selection.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external recruitment partners and support management of the Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
• Assist with graduate, apprenticeship and early careers recruitment initiatives.

What matters most in this role

Your ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders is essential in this role.

You will need to be organised and have the ability to juggle multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously. We expect you to go the extra mile to understand trends and candidate expectations within our markets, delivering accurate information and advice to hiring managers.

You will be the first point of contact for candidates and be motivated to deliver the best possible service and candidate journey. This is a fast-paced environment so your ability to adapt to moving priorities and deadlines is essential.

What we expect of you

• Experience in a recruitment, talent acquisition, or resourcing role.
• Previous experience recruiting within property, real estate, facilities management, surveying, construction, or professional services environments would be beneficial.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns simultaneously.
• Commercial awareness and a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), ideally Workable.

Why Workman?

• Hybrid working to offer you a great work life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office.
• Core working hours to allow for added flexibility and helps ease your commute to the office.
• Study support (where applicable)
• Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews.
• Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme.
• Long service additional holidays, your birthday off and an extra day between Christmas and New Year.
• Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few.
• Social events throughout the year including a firm wide Christmas party!
• Generous referral bonus.

Our core belief

Great Workmanship starts with getting the fundamentals right.

Even though we're in the property business, we're all about the people.

Everything we do is built on collaboration, empowerment, autonomy, and integrity - not just words, but how we actually work.