Senior Recruitment Advisor/ Recruitment Lead
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- Bangalore
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It’s an exciting time for the Atkins Resourcing Centre of Expertise as we’re expanding our brand-new team and looking for several Senior Recruitment Advisor/ Recruitment Leads to support the UK Early Careers delivery. Working within the in-house Recruitment Team you’ll be instrumental in the delivery of a high-volume campaign delivered for the UK businesses. This covers the recruitment of graduates, apprentices and student placements, the team recruited c1100 people this year and the plan for growth is likely to remain.
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is a leading global consultancy with over 80 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world. Atkins, ranked as one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join.
It’s an exciting and challenging time to be in early careers recruitment as the candidate needs are continually changing and post-pandemic, we’re taking the best from our virtual world and blending it with new innovative ways to bring in and engage face to face. Candidate experience has never mattered more, brand strength is vital, and the student market has never been more competitive. These roles in our new team will give you the opportunity to work with an experienced team who are shaping the way we engage, attract, assess and select young people using a blend of technology, automation and human touch at the right times in the candidate journey.
We use a bespoke applicant tracking system to help us build the campaigns each year and manage c25,000 applications each cycle, helping to offer the best possible experience to candidates and provide the team with the best technology possible to manage both roles and candidate journey. Once our candidates complete the recruitment process and are successful in securing an offer, we transition our candidates into Workday, our HR system, where our candidate will be onboarded and continue their journey until they start and beyond. We work with both systems on a daily basis which support both candidate and business in hiring new entry level talent.
We’re looking for an experienced recruiter with a background in high volume recruitment to support the early careers delivery. It’s a busy environment that offers variety and relies on providing a great customer experience for our candidates and the business.
Here is a bit about what you’d be doing day to day:
- Be part of the team delivering high volumes of graduate, placement and apprentice recruitment, taking responsibility end to end for a number of roles from attraction support, selection and assessment, through to onboarding, aligned to one or more of our business areas.
- Working closely with the UK Recruitment Team to ensure a joined-up approach on the delivery of recruitment.
- Shortlisting of candidates for roles throughout the cycle across all 3 streams, using the selection information and insight available alongside your knowledge of the business needs to put candidates forward for interviews (graduates and apprentices), matching candidates to summer placements or for business interview (year in industry placements).
- Manage the relationship with the business and the wider Early Careers Team, to educate, influence and ensure the smooth delivery of your vacancies.
- Help manage a high volume of candidates through our selection process providing an exceptional customer service and an outstanding candidate experience.
- There’s lots of business and candidate engagement so you’ll need to enjoy communicating with people in all parts of the process, enabling the right decisions to be made.
- Use our early careers Applicant Tracking System (ATS), we’ll provide training, but you’ll want to have used systems before for candidate management in a recruitment environment.
- Deliver virtual interview days, we’ll train you on how we do things, and you’ll manage the business decisions around hiring ensuring consistency and objective decisions are being made.
- Support our key business themes such as candidate experience, equality diversity and inclusion, our local value proposition and living our values.
- Continuously review candidate pipelines using the reports and data available to ensure a manageable flow of candidates for the roles to be filled.
- Work really closely with the wider early careers team to ensure that everything we do is aligned and that you support each other for the benefit of the business, the candidate and to help us be as efficient as we possibly can
Requirements
Here’s some of the things we’ll be looking for you to demonstrate:
- Excellent communication of English, both written and verbal with presentation skills.
- The ability to manage a high volume of vacancies from start to finish, ensuring the business needs are translated and built into the attraction strategy and system delivery, ensuring consistency throughout the process and excellent attention to detail.
- Experience in Early Careers would be desirable, however if not a strong interest in learning this area of recruitment.
- Highly organised with a structured approach to work, juggling priorities well whilst being self-managing a lot of the time with the support of the team around you.
- Great IT skills in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint and be comfortable with in house recruitment systems.
- Excellent customer focus, helping us to always put the candidate first, at the same time as supporting the business.
- Have the confidence and ability to build strong relationships with people, getting close to your colleagues, our business stakeholders and candidates.
- Like following process where there needs to be and comfortable to look for flexible improvements where the opportunity exists.
- Great at multi-tasking, regularly prioritising your workload and being agile enough to support the team as and when needed.
- Self-sufficient and independent, you’ll be confident working autonomously at times but capable of staying connected with the team.
Why work for Atkins?
Atkins is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. Atkins has been providing infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management services to public and private clients across the globe for more than 50 years. Atkins has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.
Check out some of our recent, most exciting projects.
Additional Information:
Atkins is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
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Note to staffing and direct hire agencies:
In the event a recruiter or agency who are not on our preferred supplier list submits a resume/candidate to anyone in the company, SNC-Lavalin family of companies, we explicitly reserve the right to recruit and hire the candidate(s) at our discretion and without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. https://careers.snclavalin.com/recruitment-agencies
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