Recruitment Advisor
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Date: 3 days ago
City: Edinburgh
Contract type: Full time
We are currently seeking a Recruitment Advisor to join our Nationwide Recruitment Team, responsible for covering both our Scotland and North West regions. This unique role will offer a hybrid working arrangement, with a base at select local depots three days a week in either Glasgow or Edinburgh and the expectation of making regular depot visits across both regions. This is a permanent role where you will identify the best talent in the market for our core depot roles across your business areas. As our Recruitment Advisor, you will be the primary point of contact for all recruitment needs within our Scotland and North West regions and will provide a personalised and tailored service, addressing the specific challenges and needs of each Depot Manager. You will also be proactive in developing creative approaches to meet current and future recruitment needs, which involves the creation of talent pools to ensure the ongoing success of both our existing and new depots. To be successful in this role you will have proven high-volume recruitment experience and will enjoy collaboration and partnering with others. You'll also have the ability to adapt to changing business needs in a fast-paced environment. What you will be doing as a Recruitment Advisor
Grade 6 role
- Collaborating with Depot and Area Managers to ensure that recruitment needs are met within agreed time frames
- Sourcing candidates for Depot Managers, offering agency style support
- Attending recruitment events, careers fairs and working with local schools and colleges.
- Offering ideas and solutions for hard-to-fill vacancies, particularly in remote locations
- Providing your Business Partner with weekly updates on the status of all live vacancies
- Supporting Depot Managers with candidate feedback when necessary
- You will measure time to hire, candidate response rate and identify trends in your areas
- Ensuring that recruitment best practices are being met
- Ensuring that all candidate information is being processed within GDPR guidelines
- Experience of working on both specialist and volume recruitment campaigns is essential.
- Experience of supporting at candidate Assessment days and Careers Fairs.
- Demonstrable examples of managing a variety of stakeholders with complex challenges and priorities.
- Knowledge of identifying, and securing passive candidates via various channels - LinkedIn, Networking, industry events etc and expert at using and developing Applicant Tracking Systems and other HR systems.
- Sound knowledge of employment law, market trends and experience of managing employer branding initiatives and full cycle recruiting.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build relationships at all levels within an organisation.
- An excellent communicator who can express ideas in an articulate and confident manner.
- Strong time management skills with the ability to coordinate, prioritise and manage own workload within a high paced environment.
- Attention to detail, resourcefulness, and creativity.
Grade 6 role
- Quarterly bonus scheme (up to 10%)
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Staff Discount
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional Reward and Recognition events, There is a strong entrepreneurial ethos and the opportunity to develop within a fast-paced and commercial environment. That, along with a competitive salary, development opportunities, and exciting rewards, are among the reasons why our people enjoy working for Howdens - and why we have been named one of the 10 Best Big Companies to Work For.
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