Recruitment Support Assistant

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Job Title: Recruitment Support Assistant

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £30,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Use the applicant tracking system (ATS) to screen and progress applications. Ensure the ATS is used to provide a valid indication of application progress to date for your allocated programmes and is subsequently accurate within the dashboard


• Progress applicants in a timely manner through the appropriate stages, providing the highest level of candidate care to all applicants (successful and unsuccessful) from application submission through to start date achieved


• Understand the candidate marketplace and continue to support the sourcing team to innovate and develop a range of strategies to attract the highest quality of candidates


• Support the Employer Branding team to drive and deliver on diversity and inclusion initiatives for recruitment


• Coordination of the selection and assessment process with a high level of expertise, using your ability to build strong rapport with candidates and hiring managers to match high quality individuals to early careers roles and manage any associated risks


• Conduct relevant assessment centre preparation including issuing candidate invites and working with the business to ensure assessors in attendance have the appropriate skills and training to participate and make the required hiring decisions on behalf of their business


• Take part in the onboarding process to ensure the offer process is initiated, candidates are updated and supported throughout the onboarding process for a smooth transition into the company


• Support any expansion and integration of the team into wider recruitment activity/campaigns beyond early careers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge of recruitment processes is essential with knowledge of Early Careers recruitment highly desirable


• Excellent IT skills, in particular applicant tracking systems


• Ability to understand and champion the importance of data integrity, timely and accurate reporting and uses this information to run efficient processes


• Experience of recruiting volume campaigns as well as unique roles and the variances in between


• Experience of delivering to and working with service level agreements and service definitions


• Proven ability of challenging and improving customer perception through delivery of contractual measures and excellent service

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Early Careers Team:

As a Recruitment Support Specialist this role will work as part of the Early Careers & Contingent teams within the Recruitment Operations function to deliver a best-in-class recruitment service.

Reporting to the Early Careers Future Talent Team Manager, the role will work collaboratively with functional and operational teams across BAE Systems Plc to support the future Early Careers recruitment needs of the business by attracting and progressing high performing individuals to join one of BAE Systems Early Careers programmes.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 6th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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