Recruitment Assistant Reading, England
Job description
Main Purpose
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Reading Buses Academy that will be primarily focused on providing effective talent attraction, recruitment, and selection solutions in accordance with the needs of an evolving and diverse business. The role will support our locally focused companies in Reading, Bracknell, Slough and Newbury.
Principal Accountabilities
Successful applicants will therefore need to demonstrate a positive, proactive and adaptable approach to their work, possess the ability to manage and prioritise potentially competing stakeholder interests and have a passion for delivering service excellence to internal and external customers. You must be a good networker, team player and have the ability to build and maintain rapport throughout the customer experience.
The role will encompass large scale vacancy and applicant management. Such as assisting in the running of talent attraction events, conducting candidate short listing and assessment centres, assisting others with interview processes across different aspects of our business and ensuring that effective candidate feedback is provided.
As a strong influential communicator you will also be required to respond to enquiries of varying complexity concerning terms and conditions of employment, generate all correspondence regarding offer and contractual paperwork, assist with any special projects and support the Recruitment team as necessary.
Shift Pattern
Average of 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday office hours. Please note this is a fixed term contract opportunity until 31 March 2024, with potential to extend subject to successful outcomes.
Minimum Requirements
- A proven experience of working in a fast paced and challenging environment.
- Possess a flexible approach in ensuring business needs are met.
- Demonstrate excellent time management, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Driven to provide service excellence to all our customers.
- Conscientious and attention to detail particularly in relation to producing formal documentation such as contracts of employment.
- Strong planning and time management skills with a proven ability to prioritise workload and meet targets.
- Strong teamwork skills essential but also having the ability to work on own and use initiative.
- Highly confident in appropriate IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Familiarity with talent management systems or HR databases would be desirable but not essential.
- Previous experience of working in a recruitment environment is desirable but not essential.
- Qualified training in candidate recruitment, assessment or selection techniques would be an advantage (Level A).
- Candidates must demonstrate a willingness to learn new systems, skills and behaviours and to acquire job related formal qualifications as and when required.
In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits including free travel on our services for employee, spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependant), a range of retail benefits and a pension scheme.
At Reading Buses we believe our people are our greatest asset.
Our vision is to be the best local transport of choice by constantly refreshing our services, skills and technology. We want to recruit and retain the best talent from most diverse pool of candidates.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract, Temp to perm
Contract length: 8 months
Salary: Up to £30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Store discount
- Transport links
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Reading, Berkshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- recruitment (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 10/07/2023
