AO
Recruitment Advisor

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Job Overview
About The Role
At AO, we're all about finding smarter ways to get things done. Behind every delivery, installation, and recycling collection is a team of brilliant people making it happen. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a skilled recruitment advisor who'll help us find the talented people that keep our operation moving.
This isn't a role for someone who waits for applications to land. We're looking for someone who's proactive, curious, and loves getting out into the market to find great talent before anyone else does.
Salary Banding: Up to 40k per annum
Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday 37.5 per week
Contract: 12 month FTC
We're big believers that great things happen when people come together. As a primarily office-based team, you'll be in the office five days a week, collaborating, learning, and celebrating successes alongside your colleagues.
It's all about One AO, One Team, One Goal, and achieving great things together.
Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing
- You'll take ownership of end-to-end hiring across exciting and evolving areas of the business, finding talented people that others might miss. Whether you're headhunting specialist talent, building long-term talent pipelines, or creating attraction campaigns that get people talking, you'll have a real impact on how we grow.
- You'll use LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, networking, and direct sourcing techniques to engage top talent, while partnering with hiring managers to provide recruitment expertise, market insight, and hiring recommendations.
- Above all, you'll deliver a brilliant candidate experience and help us find smarter, better ways to attract exceptional people to AO.
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I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
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Why you're a good match
StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
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No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
A Few Things About You
- You'll be a proactive recruiter who loves building relationships, spotting talent, and finding opportunities where others don't. You're comfortable picking up the phone, engaging passive candidates, and challenging traditional approaches to recruitment to deliver great hiring outcomes.
- We're looking for someone who's naturally curious, commercially minded, and excited by the opportunity to help build teams in new and evolving areas of the business.
We'd Love To Hear From You If You Have
- Experience managing end-to-end recruitment in-house, agency, or RPO environments.
- Strong sourcing and headhunting experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other direct attraction methods.
- The confidence to identify, engage, and build relationships with passive candidates.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively with hiring managers.
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive mindset and a passion for finding exceptional talent.
- Experience creating strategic hiring plans and delivering recruitment campaigns to support business growth.
- The ability to use recruitment data and market insights to shape hiring decisions and attraction strategies.
Experience recruiting specialist or hard-to-find talent would be ideal, but what matters most is your ability to build great relationships, think creatively, and deliver the best recruitment outcomes.


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A Bit About Us
We’re big on appliances and electricals, REALLY big. Washing machines, fridge freezers, and TVs? They’re our bread and butter. Mobiles, Airwraps, and Ring doorbells? Yep, those too. If it plugs in, powers up, or makes life easier, AO probably has it.
But we’re more than that… For over 25 years, trust has been at the heart of everything we do, helping us become the UK’s most trusted electrical retailer. Our customers rate us 4.9 on Trustpilot from nearly ONE MILLION reviews and more 5-star ratings than any other UK electrical retailer, because they know they can rely on us, and it’s the exact same for our AOers too.
We truly believe it’s more than just a job; we genuinely care about each other and our impact on making our customers' lives easier by helping them brilliantly. Everyone here knows how their role makes a difference. Our people are our superpower, so when it comes to finding new AOers, we know it’s about more than just a CV; it’s about what makes you, YOU.
Our Benefits
We’ve designed our benefits to cover everything from big moments to little helps. As well as the essentials, like pensions and holidays, we’ve got our own "AO Perks" to help you with the little things that matter.
- 25 days holiday (Excluding Bank Holidays)
- At least 5% contribution pension scheme*
- Dedicated wellness initiatives that support your wellbeing, ranging from our 24hr employee assistance programme to subsidized gym membership.
To see all our benefits and perks, visit our AO Benefits page.
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