Recruitment Assistant

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.
  
  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., 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, 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
  
  At Geary s, 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 two sites on a 24/7 operation. We re made up of over 300 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry. We provide full training and support, and the chance to learn new skills. Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, a Cycle to Work scheme.