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HR Apprentice
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HR Apprentice
Duration
2 Year Apprenticeship
Start Date
January 2027
Location
London Bridge
Course
Level 5 CIPD
Your Team
The People team is a highly motivated and hardworking team that puts people at the core of everything we do, aligning business decisions with people programmes. We are committed to finding and developing the best talent and are constantly looking for opportunities to innovate. The Centre of Excellence (COE) forms part of our wider People team, comprising Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and Diversity.
Your Role
This two-year HR Apprenticeship offers an exciting opportunity to build a career in Human Resources by rotating through our Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and Diversity teams. You will gain practical, hands-on experience while collaborating with each group to deliver an integrated Centres Of Expertise (CoE) experience.
Being an Apprentice at News UK
During your time with us, you will earn above the national living wage while receiving comprehensive, hands-on training. You’ll work 4 days a week with News UK and spend 1 day studying toward a fully funded Level 5 CIPD qualification. Along with mentorship from top industry professionals, we will provide any tailored support you need to reach your full potential.
Day to Day
- Support with all advertising of vacancies, including drafting job adverts in line with best practice.
- Maintain our applicant tracking system and manage daily operational workflows.
- Assist the TA team in sourcing and screening top-quality candidates.
- Assist in the coordination of our company-wide induction programme for new joiners.
- Support Learning & Development initiatives by coordinating event logistics, room bookings, and training schedules.
- Manage central mailboxes to resolve internal and external employee queries promptly.
- Administer key systems within our Learning Management System to support continuous learning.
- Support Diversity team in organising cultural calendar events.
- Work on Early Talent programmes including delivery of outreach and news literacy.
- Support payments and processes.
What We're Looking For From You
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Bring a genuine enthusiasm for learning and a clear drive to build a long-term career within Human Resources.
- Ability to communicate clearly and build positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business.
- Adapt quickly to new processes, digital tools, and HR administrative systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to use AI tools responsibly to streamline daily tasks, combined with the critical eye needed to check and verify information for accuracy.
- Maintain a high level of attention to detail when managing records, data, and written correspondence.
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Application Process
Online Application > Google Meet Interview > Assessment Centre
As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to the following 3 questions:
- Briefly introduce yourself and tell us why you’re interested in pursuing a career in the apprenticeship you’ve applied to?
- What interests you about the company you are applying to and suggest one improvement you would make to the content?
- Describe a learning curve you recently navigated. Outline the steps you took, the challenges you faced and what the outcome was.
News UK
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
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We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
- Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off
- Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
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