Knovia is an evolving group of best-in-class education businesses that build professional capabilities, operating in chosen sectors that make a real impact, including Paragon Skills, Shaping Lives and Tempdent.
Our principles and core values demonstrate our impact of being at the forefront of building the capability of individuals, providing them with the skills to be productive and deliver a better service to advance their careers.
We have a great opportunity to expand our Knovia Talent function and appoint another experienced Talent Resourcer to support our impactful Talent acquisition activities for all companies within the group, providing a world-class candidate experience.
Location: Remote with limited travel for 1:1s and team meetings
Salary: Up to £28,000 (DOE)
Contract Type: Permanent - Full time
We are fortunate to be growing our Talent Team due to the exceptional growth here at Knovia, and continuing to hand-pick top talent across our chosen sectors of Care, Professional Services, Dental and Early Years.
The role of the Knovia Talent Resourcer is integral to the success of function for Paragon Skills, Tempdent and Shaping Lives but for other companies within the group. We are looking for a dynamic, personable and enthusiastic individual to join our team and hand-pick our superstar colleagues.
This is a full 360 internal recruitment role, from advert creation, sourcing, and interviewing through to offering and onboarding our chosen candidates. You will use your passion and drive for finding top talent to source best in class candidates, alongside your unique edge, creative flare and social media experience to create enticing and engaging adverts and promote our external employer brand.
Using your experience and energy you will build effective relationships with candidates and colleagues on a national basis. You will be working closely with our Talent Acquisition Manager, experienced Talent Resourcers, and People team to deliver our People Strategy and continue to drive the success of our people.
Exciting elements of this role include...
. Building a strong network of candidates suitable for Apprenticeship sector vacancies primarily within Care, Dental, Early Years and Professional Services
. Maintaining sector knowledge in further education and recruitment trends to best place our current roles
. Regularly updating and promoting vacancies across sector specific job boards, career pages and social media
. Growing and developing an evergreen hiring solution with vibrant talent pools
. Building and nurturing strong relationships with hiring managers within Paragon Skills and wider Knovia Group
. Coordinating the entire talent acquisition journey, arranging interviews, feeding back to candidates and making offers
. Providing regular data insights to Talent Acquisition Manager on all talent and onboarding activity
. Working in line with teams targets and deadlines, maintaining an outstanding service level
. Ensure Safer Recruitment, Information Security and all other legislative or Paragon Skills policies and procedures are adhered to
. Proactively promote safeguarding, inclusivity and diversity within the workforce
.Adhere to GDPR regulations and all internal information and data security policies and procedures
We like to execute excellence in our team, and we can do this by utilising a sophisticated ATS system, and filling our vacancies in line with our ambitious targets, and growing our talent pools. We are driven, energised and passionate about keeping a positive candidate experience at the heart of everything you do, if this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, we can't wait to hear from you!
What our ideal applicant has:
. Level 3 CIPD or Recruitment qualification (or equivalent experience)
. Experience working in a fast-paced recruitment environment
. Strong experience working on multiple and varied vacancies simultaneously
. Knowledge and experience of using an ATS platform (we use Cezanne In-Recruit)
. Creative and able to produce differentiated, engaging and enticing adverts and social media imagery
. Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally
. Comfortable to work remotely and manage own time and resources effectively
. Confident IT user with experience using MS Office including Teams
. Knowledge of apprenticeship and further education sector
. Ambitious and results orientated with a strong sense of personal drive
To learn more about this fantastic opportunity - check out the job description attached!
We have a number of benefits available as part of our Paragon Choices and all colleagues benefit from our standard benefits including;
. 20 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and a holiday purchase scheme
. 3 Paragon Days for our Operational December Closure and 8 Public Bank Holidays
. Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives
. Perkbox – a suite of lifestyle benefits and wellness tools
. Recognition and long service awards to celebrate our colleagues’
· Going for Gold KPI related bonus can be earned
We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role.
To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.
Paragon Skills is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and we implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependant on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are also committed to promoting equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.
We will be reviewing applicants for this role on a regular basis, therefore the vacancy may close earlier than anticipated so please apply early to avoid missing out!