Recruitment Assistant

Job Description:

Recruitment Assistant

Shift Pattern: Monday-Friday, 40 Hours per week

Location: Hybrid, Barrow Upon Soar, Glenfield, Leicester (LE3), Home based

Salary: Negotiable, dependant on skills and experience

The Role

We are looking for a Recruitment Assistant to provide an end-to-end recruitment service to the business, supporting the Recruiter to advise, assist and manage recruitment needs. Responsible for providing excellent customer service to both internal and external customers offering timely and accurate recruitment support ensuring all tasks are carried out to the highest standards ensuring accuracy of information.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Manage candidate responses/applications received and ensure candidate applications are processed efficiently.
• Qualify, shortlist and present suitable candidates against defined job vacancies.
• Conduct telephone interviews with candidates to ensure suitability against essential vacancy criteria, whilst delivering a first-class candidate experience.
• Proactive and driven to contact candidates directly about job opportunities.
• Assist in the recruitment and selection processes by effectively liaising with the candidates and internal teams.
• Be proactive and committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with both candidates and hiring teams, to instil trust and confidence and ensure a positive experience through the full recruitment process.
• Arrange interviews with hiring managers.
• Arrange candidate interviews which could either be face-to-face or video interviews.
• Conduct “right to work” checks for potential new hires.
• Support the wider HR team as and when required.

About Us

At Geary’s Bakeries, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of towards 900 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £125m+ in the last 15 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £200m+ in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated, and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, BUPA Cashback Plan, Death In Service, a Cycle to Work scheme and a chance to win a £10k worth prizes annually! Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!

#wearegearys

About You

At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

What we’re looking for:

• Self-motivated, tenacious and resilient
• Driven and determined to achieve targets and objectives
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Customer focused approach
• Demonstrable questioning and listening skills
• Highly structured and independent
• Happy to work autonomously.
• Approachable and confident to handle sensitive and confidential subjects
• Ability to remain calm and positive under pressure

Skills and Experience

• Fast paced customer service sales experience
• Administration experience within a sales environment
• Recruitment resourcing experience ideally, although not essential
• Experience in FMCG ideally, although not essential

Please submit a CV in application. No agencies.

If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at point of interview, and for the tenure of employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.