BAE Systems Hiring for Recruitment Specialist Early Careers at Preston Full Time

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As part of the Head Office team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

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Recruitment Specialist Early Careers

Would you like to support the delivery of all Early Careers recruitment activities across all UK business areas? We currently have a vacancy for a Recruitment Specialist Early Careers at our site in Preston.

As a Recruitment Specialist Early Careers, you will be supporting 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.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work as part of the Early Careers & Contingent teams within the Recruitment Operations function to deliver a best in class recruitment service

Your main responsibilities as a Recruitment Specialist Early Careers will involve:

Conduct relevant assessment centre preparation

Develop strong understanding of processes and deliverables within the team

Demonstrate an integral involvement in delivering graduate/ undergraduate and apprentice recruitment activities

Manage the hiring manager relationship from initial vacancy consultation until first day readiness

Use the applicant tracking system (ATS) to screen and progress applications

Support the sourcing team to build and maintain an effective and live talent pool

Demonstrate a high level of candidate care, managing expectations by providing an honest and transparent service

Your skills and qualifications:
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 working within agreed HR policies and processes and provide ad hoc recruitment advice

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

Ability to challenge and influence at all levels internally and externally

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

What we are looking for in you:
Knowledge of recruitment processes is essential with knowledge of Early Careers recruitment highly desirable.

Location: Preston

Salary: £28,000 – £30,000 dependant on experience

Benefits:
Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

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/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

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Primary LocationGB-ENG-LAN-Preston

Closing Date 01/Jul/22, 5:59:00 PM