At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage high volume recruitment for bus drivers, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing candidates.
- Company: The role is fundamental to the business, ensuring timely recruitment delivery.
- Benefits: Opportunity to run open days and recruitment fairs, enhancing community engagement.
- Other info: Flexibility in working hours is necessary, including occasional weekends.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team coordinating recruitment activities in the bus industry.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in high volume recruitment and understanding of Employment Law required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
A high profile role, fundamental to the business and responsible for managing the on time delivery of high volume recruitment for bus drivers, including the forecasting, reporting and selection of applicants.
Responsibilities:
- Advertising, sourcing and screening candidates
- Managing the recruitment systems
- Interviewing candidates for multiple roles
- Organising daily workloads for the team and managing the interview diaries
- Managing data input and the candidate/employee databases
- Responsibility for completing and distributing weekly reports
- Responsibility for managing ad hoc projects
- Organising and running open days and recruitment fairs
- Ensuring an understanding of and compliance with Company procedures for Health & Safety, specifically reporting accidents and any defective equipment
The Recruitment Officer works closely with the Recruitment Manager and the Recruitment Team to coordinate all recruitment activity for the business. They also liaise regularly with the Training Manager and Driving Instructors in organising training for new employees. They may be occasionally required to work weekends to co-ordinate and run job fairs and open-days. Excellent customer service with a high volume of phone calls and visitors.
Competencies required:
- Proven experience of working in a high volume recruitment environment
- Good understanding of job boards and where to find the best candidates
- Forward thinking approach, with ability to challenge accepted practices
- Understanding of the bus industry is desirable
- Knowledge of up to date Employment Law
- Experience in an administrative environment
- PC skills, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Flexibility in working hours
- Confident communicator at all levels
- Decision making
- Organisation skills
- Detail oriented
- Team player
- Self-motivated
- Calm under pressure
Recruitment Officer FW employer: First Bus
This role is based in a high-profile company within the bus industry, offering opportunities to engage with the community through recruitment fairs. The team values excellent customer service and collaboration with training staff to ensure new hires are well-prepared.
