Recruitment Advisor

This Recruitment Advisor post sits in the Professional and Support area of Cardiff Metropolitan University, within its staff recruitment service. The work centres on running recruitment campaigns for hiring managers and candidates, advising on fair selection practice and designing attraction activity. It suits someone with a track record of multi-campaign hiring across varied roles, using digital platforms and social media to reach candidates, and leading service-improvement projects.

A degree in a relevant subject such as HR, business or law is required.

• Leading recruitment campaigns, giving a proactive, responsive, high-quality service to hiring managers and candidates
• Advising on recruitment best practice to keep selection fair, inclusive and evidence-based
• Designing job adverts, attraction campaigns and social media content to promote the university as an employer of choice
• Using data and insight to inform recruitment decisions, evaluate success and identify service improvements
• Leading projects that improve the recruitment service and the experience of candidates and hiring managers

• Degree in a relevant subject such as Human Resource Management, Business Management or Law

• Leading successful recruitment campaigns across a variety of roles
• Track record of attracting high-quality and diverse talent
• Developing and delivering targeted attraction campaigns
• Using digital recruitment platforms and social media to engage candidates
• Advising stakeholders on recruitment best practice

• Sound understanding of employment legislation as applied to recruitment, selection and onboarding
• Analysing and interpreting data to support decisions and improvement
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Highly organised, managing competing priorities and multiple campaigns at once
• Proactive, identifying improvements and leading initiatives through to implementation with attention to detail
• Building relationships with stakeholders and influencing at all levels

• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after one year's service, plus 12 bank holiday/concessionary days
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous monthly contributions
• Family friendly policies
• Learning and development opportunities, with access to library and digital services
• Sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership
• Free family access to the Health Assured wellbeing support service