Laing O'Rourke
Early Talent Recruitment Manager
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Location: National (Required to travel to Dartford once a month)
Come and help shape the talent of our future.
Laing O'Rourke is looking for an ambitious, people-focused Early Talent Recruitment Manager to lead our Graduate, Apprentice, Placement and Work Experience programmes from attraction through to onboarding and development.
What You'll Do
- Shape and deliver innovative early talent recruitment strategies and programmes.
- Partner with business leaders, schools, colleges, universities and training providers.
- Create engaging attraction campaigns and an outstanding candidate experience.
- Champion diversity, inclusion and social mobility across all pathways.
- Oversee end-to-end recruitment delivery for all Early Talent pathways, ensuring high-quality hiring outcomes.
- Ensure recruitment processes deliver an outstanding and inclusive candidate experience.
- Manage annual recruitment campaigns and assessment activities across multiple programmes
- Use data and insight to improve hiring, retention and return on investment.
- Lead and develop a small, high-performing team.
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What We're Looking For
- Experience leading graduate, apprentice or early careers programmes.
- A strong track record in recruitment campaigns and stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent planning, organisation and project management skills.
- A proactive, innovative and data-led approach.
- A genuine passion for developing future talent and creating opportunity.
- Experienced in using ATS systems
- Familiarity with early-career recruitment in technical or skills-based environments
This is more than recruitment; it's an opportunity to shape careers, strengthen future capability, and create exceptional drive to meet the business goal for Early Talent Requirement.
Ready to help build the future talent? We'd love to hear from you.
About Us
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
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Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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