Recruiter
MI5 - The Security Service
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 25th November 2024
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Job summary
This role is your opportunity to be at the heart of shaping the future workforce of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ by attracting the best talent with diverse skills and backgrounds. As a Recruiter at MI5, you’ll provide a professional and inclusive experience to our customers, candidates and colleagues while delivering high-quality employees.
Using our attraction, selection and candidate management processes, you’ll deliver recruitment campaigns within short timeframes. And, working alongside our external recruitment partner, you’ll keep candidates engaged throughout the recruitment process, giving them transparent and timely communication about their status.
Job description
You could be working on a variety of different campaigns including high-volume graduate campaigns, or more niche specialist roles. You will play a key role in assessing candidate suitability and could be involved in, or provide support to our internal business areas, with assessment centres and interviews, virtually or in person. And you’ll be involved in end of campaign reviews – using your campaign insights to make recommendations to improve processes and efficiency.
You’ll build productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and partners, providing regular updates and managing expectations. These stakeholders may include hiring sections across MI5, MI6 and GCHQ (teams which we are recruiting for), and partners such as occupational health, occupational psychologists, vetting, employment lawyers, marketing teams, outreach teams, and our external recruitment partner. You will develop your subject matter expertise and look for opportunities to share your knowledge within recruitment as well as with stakeholders and partners.
You will ensure campaigns are compliant with HR policy and employment law and you’ll deliver value for money. You will ensure that candidate trackers and internal systems are kept up to date with the status of candidates. This will be used to provide accurate and up to date management information (MI) which supports senior level customer interactions and planning across the organisation. Your campaigns will need to be GDPR compliant, with any compromises reported immediately.
There is an expectation that you will stay within recruitment for four years before applying for other roles at MI5. Other roles could include remaining within the corporate services function or moving to another area of the organisation.
Person specification
You’ll have demonstrable experience of working as part of a team as well as working solo. You can take the initiative and plan ahead, prioritising which projects are most important within your workload. Your ability to communicate with a variety of people about a range of topics and build relationships – with candidates and partners – will be crucial.
As you’ll be one of the first people candidates speak to, being professional will be imperative, as will being organised.
A minimum of 1 year experience in either recruitment, talent spotting or HR is essential to apply for this role. This will have helped you develop the skills we are looking for, as would a CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) qualification - although this is not essential - and there may be the opportunity to obtain the CIPD qualification whilst in role.
Benefits
You’ll receive a starting salary of £37,281 plus other benefits including:
- 25 days’ annual leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days’ public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Personal Learning Budget
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave
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Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
- Application sift, looking at your motivation for the role and the organisation
- Interview, including motivational fit questions, scenario questions and competency-based questions
- If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, subject to vetting
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment
- Email : careers@recruitmentoffice.org.uk
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- Email : careers@recruitmentoffice.org.uk
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