Graduate Recruitment & Development Advisor

Purpose of the Role
Provide recruitment strategy for key management and leadership roles and delivering a high quality, cost effective recruitment and selection service that meets customer needs and corporate objectives. To ensure the effective operation of all recruitment & selection processes, proactively identifying areas for service improvement.

Key Tasks

Graduate Recruitment

• Engage with and co-ordinate the sourcing of new trainee talent at both graduate and non-graduate level - primarily for the management, technical and commercial graduate programmes circa 15 a year
• Organizing and leading careers events at universities and colleges of further education
• Coordination of graduate and trainee recruitment through social networks, advertising and links with Colleges and universities
• Manage the application process and run the Graduate & Trainee Assessment Days
• Building the Colas Rail brand for graduate recruitment & development

Graduate Management & Commercial Development

• Inductions ran for the management & commercial graduates
• Support the Commercial & Management rotations schemes - developing rotations, identifying graduates to fill the rotations, monitoring progress during rotations, giving feedback, managing their development etc
• Work with the Graduate Managers to develop the various graduate schemes
• Work with the Skills Development Advisor to roll out the annual graduate training
• Manage the process for permanent roles for graduates finishing the scheme
• Talent development process for graduates

Graduate Development

• Set up and manage the programmes as required with the Professional Bodies eg ICE, ICES, IMechE, IET, RICS and the divisions, maintaining this relationship each year.
• Twice yearly sessions with the Professional body to ensure the correct progress is being made with trainees & graduates
• Brief the programmes and their responsibilities to the management team, running training as required.
• Inductions ran for the new trainees & graduates
• All trainees & grads briefed on the technical elements of their programme, ICE, IMechE, IET, IRSE etc.
• Develop cascade to hold the trainee & graduate information
• Manage the processing of all the qualification applications and also sponsorship agreements tracking it all on cascade
• Manage the training of the technical mentors needed for each scheme, holding at least annual sessions
• Meet with each trainee at least every 3-6 months to ensure they are progressing against their technical competence e.g. ICE core objectives.
• Coordinate the graduate rotations and salary increases linked to all the various schemes
• Coordinate the perm jobs for graduate & trainees
• Work with the Training Officer to develop the technical content of the trainee schemes - NVQs
• General graduate and trainee queries

Person Specification

• Demonstrates the 5 E's to a high standard
• Has experience within the L&D or Recruitment fields or both is desirable
• Demonstrable experience successfully engaging with an internal client base
• Demonstrable experience of complex administration processes
• Thorough knowledge of excel and preferably recruitment databases and HR systems

Qualifications & Experience

• Ideally educated to degree level
• Ideally holds and HR qualification
• 2-5 years' work experience from graduation

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