Talent Acquisition Advisor

• Birmingham
• Dartford

• Fixed Term

Laing O'Rourke is looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor on a 9 month fixed term contract to support the delivery of high-quality recruitment across key business areas.

This role plays an important part in creating a positive candidate experience while supporting hiring teams with both proactive talent pipelining and reactive recruitment activity.

Working closely with hiring managers and resource teams, you will help identify talent, provide market insight and contribute to building a more resilient and future-ready workforce through skills-based hiring and inclusive attraction strategies.

What will the role look like?

• Supporting end-to-end recruitment activity, including candidate attraction, screening, coordination and onboarding to deliver a strong candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Proactively sourcing and engaging talent through job boards, talent pools and market mapping, particularly within skills-short areas.
• Partnering with hiring managers to advise on recruitment approaches, talent availability and attraction strategies, including pipelining for future needs.
• Managing recruitment data, systems and reporting, capturing market insight, maintaining accurate records and supporting continuous improvement of processes.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and passionate about delivering a high-quality recruitment experience.

Ideally, you will bring:

• Experience in a customer-facing or recruitment environment, with an understanding of candidate management and stakeholder support.
• Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail, able to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate data and administration.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage candidates and build effective relationships with stakeholders.
• An interest in recruitment, talent or HR, with a desire to develop further through qualifications such as CIPD or a recruitment pathway.

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email ***email_hidden***

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