[National Express Group Pl]

Recruitment and Retention Officer
Salary: Up to £28 000 plus benefits
Location: London
Company: National Express Group Plc
Date posted: 30 Jun 2005

Recruitment and Retention Officer - Near Heathrow

Company / Organisation Information:

National Express Ltd is part of a leading international transport provider, National Express Group (NEG ), who employ over 45000 employees worldwide. In Europe, National Express is the largest specialist coach operator who operate to over 1000 destinations and carry over 16 million customers a year. Serving the major UK airports with additional dedicated ‘on-airport’ coach and bus services National Express has established itself as a fast moving and profitable, entrepreneurial style business. Due to continued growth an exciting opportunity has arisen to join National Express as a Recruitment and Retention officer based at Heathrow with additional regional responsibility for the Gatwick, Stansted and Birmingham sites. This is a newly created role, which will communicate with senior people at National Express. It represents a fantastic opportunity to establish company wide resourcing and retention procedures.

Job Description:

The recruitment and retention officer will head up and develop recruitment and retention best practice and implement related policy in support of strategic HR goals.

Detailed duties will include:

* To provide dedicated recruitment, selection and retention services to local managers
* To design and deliver major recruitment campaigns
* To design and place exciting adverts
* To plan, communicate and deliver recruitment events
* To arrange and administer appropriate knowledge assessment tests
* To develop relationships with local job centres and external agencies
* To introduce effective retention and succession planning
* Carry out exit interviews

Candidate Specification:

The successful candidates will ideally be educated to degree level and CIPD qualified and although not essential an SHL testing qualification would be an advantage. A seasoned recruiter who can communicate effectively at all levels you will ideally have gained recruitment process experience from an in-house environment, although agency backgrounds will also be considered. Most importantly you will be a confident and innovative recruiter who is able to promote National Express and demonstrate a passion for recruiting skilled and dependable staff.

Skills:

* Recruitment
* Interviewing
* Influencing
* HR Databases
* Team working
* Excellent communication skills

Benefits:

* 22 days holiday (rising with service)
* Pension scheme
* Free coach travel
* Potential for SHL training

Additional Information Salary: Up to £28 000 plus benefits
Position Type: Permanent
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