Wates Group
Talent Acquisition Specialist
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🌟 Talent Acquisition Specialist
WPS Permanent or Fixed-Term Contract
Are you an experienced Recruiter looking for an opportunity to make a real impact? We're looking for a talented Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our growing team and play a key role in attracting, engaging and hiring exceptional talent across WPS.
Working as part of a collaborative Talent Acquisition team, you'll manage the full recruitment lifecycle, partnering with hiring managers to deliver effective recruitment solutions while ensuring an outstanding candidate experience from attraction to onboarding.
🔨 What You'll Be Doing
- Managing end-to-end recruitment activity across a range of professional, operational and specialist roles
- Building strong relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand hiring needs and workforce plans
- Delivering recruitment campaigns aligned to business objectives and resourcing requirements
- Directly sourcing diverse, high-quality candidates through a variety of attraction methods
- Providing guidance and support to hiring managers on recruitment best practice
- Ensuring all recruitment activity complies with employment legislation, immigration requirements, GDPR and company policies
- Supporting recruitment cost-saving initiatives through direct sourcing activity
- Producing recruitment reports and analysing trends to support informed hiring decisions
- Contributing to talent acquisition projects, continuous improvement initiatives and diversity and inclusion objectives
- Championing a positive candidate experience and promoting the WPS employer brand
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✅ What We're Looking For
- Previous experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle within an in-house or agency recruitment environment
- Strong direct sourcing and candidate attraction skills
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruitment technology
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple vacancies and priorities simultaneously
- Good analytical skills with the ability to interpret recruitment data and identify trends
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Up-to-date knowledge of employment law, immigration legislation and GDPR
- A proactive, self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
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If you're passionate about recruitment, enjoy building strong relationships and are committed to delivering an exceptional candidate experience, we'd love to hear from you.
Join WPS and help us attract and secure the talent that will drive our future success. 🚀
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WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.
We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme. Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk
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