Recruitment Officer

Our client, a leading technical innovation company based in Cambridge, is looking for a Recruitment Officer to join their recruitment team. Day to day you will play a vital role in supporting their very busy recruitment function with a variety of administration tasks. The role will also encompass the responsibility for the graduate and intern recruitment campaign. You'll be visiting top engineering universities recruiting engineers, scientists and mathematicians at recruitment fairs and company presentations on campus. It's a fast paced, varied and dynamic role ideally suited to someone with plenty of enthusiasm and passion for recruiting top engineering talent. You'll strategize about how and where our client can recruit their next generation of top talent, and implement this by enhancing their employer brand on campus and nurturing existing relationships. You'll be recruiting both graduates and interns. Our client's growth plans over the next 5 years are ambitious and they anticipate a continuous recruitment cycle. 

The Recruitment team works closely with the HR team, together they're responsible for attracting and retaining the highest quality staff.  This includes recruitment, career development and training, pay and rewards, and welfare issues.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Daily administration of a very busy recruitment inbox - processing a high volume of incoming applications
• Responding promptly to candidate's recruitment related enquiries
• Keeping the vacancies on our client's careers page and other websites up to date
• Full life cycle recruitment across all technical disciplines at graduate and intern level
• Booking and organising our client's attendance at University recruitment and careers fairs and presentations, including all associated travel and accommodation
• Attendance at recruitment fairs along with a team of engineers and scientists
• Organising and designing stand layout, demos and graphics
• Preparation for each event including packing of materials and sourcing appropriate literature and promotional items
• Working closely with our client's Marketing team to produce appropriate graduate and intern brochures and other marketing material
• Developing relationships with specific university careers service and societies, including identifying suitable sponsorship opportunities
• Developing strong working relationships with hiring managers, ensuring graduate hiring needs are met for their groups and advising hiring managers on recruitment best practice
• Producing detailed job specifications for each vacancy
• Liaising closely with our client's PSL of recruitment agencies for assistance when required
• Reviewing all applications and forward to line managers for final selection to interview
• Interviewing candidates, running interview pre -brief and de-brief meetings

This is a challenging role in an extremely busy department. All applicants must have proven experience within a recruitment role; you must have good understanding of how to screen and short list CVs for specific roles, must have experience interviewing candidates and it is essential that you have an appreciation of the need to handle sensitive and confidential data in line with legal and ethical requirements. You must also understand what it takes to attract high calibre graduates and interns in a competitive industry sector. You will need to be a capable and thorough administrator with a good eye for detail and accurate data entry skills. You must be highly organised and able to work under pressure to tight deadlines. It is essential that you have plenty of initiative and must be able to assign priorities without supervision. Being an effective communicator is essential in this role. Previous experience organising and planning events would be a distinct advantage. This role will require regular travel within the UK (Intensive travel October - February) and you must have real passion and must genuinely enjoy talking to potential recruits.