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Recruitment & HR Coordinator | Up to £35,000 | Bedford
Enjoy recruitment, but not convinced you want to be a recruiter forever?
This might be worth a look.
I'm working with a fascinating engineering business in Bedford that's looking for someone to come in and take ownership of its recruitment.
And when I say ownership, I don't mean spending your days booking interviews and updating spreadsheets.
They want you to help build their internal recruitment function.
- You'll manage vacancies from start to finish
- Work directly with hiring managers
- Source candidates
- Improve how they recruit
- Start building proper talent pipelines across some genuinely interesting areas of engineering and professional services
The first 18 months will be heavily recruitment focused.
But here's where it gets interesting.
They don't want you to stay in recruitment forever either.
You'll work closely with an experienced HR Business Partner and gradually start getting exposure to:
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- Employee Relations
- Disciplinaries and grievances
- Performance and absence management
- Employee engagement
- Change projects
- HR policy
- Wider people initiatives
And they'll fully fund your CIPD qualification while you do it.
The intention is to give someone a genuine pathway from Recruitment → HR → potentially HR Advisor/Business Partner territory as their career develops.
So who am I looking for?
- You could be an agency recruiter who's had enough of chasing monthly targets but still loves the actual recruitment bit.
- You might already work internally as a Recruitment/TA Coordinator and want more ownership.
- Or perhaps you're in an HR role that's heavily recruitment focused and you're struggling to get the broader exposure you need to progress.
You don't need to know anything about aerodynamics.
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You do need to be curious enough to want to learn.
You'll be recruiting people into a highly specialised engineering environment working across aerospace, defence and R&D, so there are considerably worse industries to spend your day talking about.
What matters is that you can engage candidates, manage hiring managers, keep multiple processes moving and have enough initiative to look at something that isn't working and improve it.
The important bits:
- 💰 Up to £35,000
- 📍 Bedford
- 📚 CIPD fully funded
- 📈 Clear progression into broader HR
- 🏖️ 26 days' holiday + bank holidays
- 💷 Pension matched up to 7%
- 🏥 Private medical insurance
- 📊 Share incentive plan
If you're currently working in recruitment and have been wondering "what comes after this?", this could be a very good answer.
Drop me a message or apply below.
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