As a Resourcing Business Partner Support, you will manage a high volume of vacancies from approval to offer. At the offer stage, you will collaborate with our onboarding team to resolve any issues that may arise before candidates start employment. Your focus will always be on providing both internal and external candidates with an exemplary experience, regardless of their application outcome. Success in this role will be measured by the timely filling of vacancies, candidate satisfaction and compliance throughout the recruitment process.
Our hiring manager community will rely on your knowledge of appropriate recruitment methods and sourcing strategies to support them in filling their roles. Join us and contribute to a positive candidate experience and effective recruitment process. Presenting monthly updates on recruitment activity within the functions will support senior management with workforce planning.
Travel is required in this role in order to meet candidates and hiring managers in various office locations or attend career events Scotland wide.
About the role (External)
Your daily activities will include: -
· Writing job adverts using role briefings and descriptions.
· Advertising roles on both internal and external platforms.
· Advising hiring managers when roles are closing and due to be screened to continually maintain the candidate experience.
· Managing candidate offers - including salary approval and benchmarking, attaching all documentation to maintain transparency and compliance.
· Responding to general queries from candidates and hiring managers.
· Co-ordination of the recruitment approval process prior to any roles being advertised.
· Co-ordination of Recruitment Workshops, Recruitment Days for high-volume roles and supporting Early Engagement Events.
· Daily housekeeping of your vacancies which can be circa 50 roles at any time
· Supporting the early careers manager with engagement and assessment activities
· Demonstrable experience of working in a recruitment environment whilst providing a good candidate experience in a fair and consistent way.
· Excellent communication skills. We will be looking for demonstrable experience of posting on internal and external social media channels.
· Experience of working to deadlines in a volume orientated resourcing/recruiting environment
· Proven organisational and process management experience.
· Proven experience of Microsoft Office and utilisation of applicant tracker systems
· Previous experience in database and administrative process management for uploading resourcing documents.
Whilst it's not essential, it will be desirable for you to have:
· A basic knowledge of relevant employment law and the employment marketplace
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Scotland's Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives dont always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.