HR Recruitment Apprentice

Job title: HR Recruitment Apprentice

Department: People

Location: Halifax / Hybrid

Hours: 37.5hrs per week (core hours 10am-4pm)

Salary: £18,000 per annum, plus £500 bonus after successful first year.

We’re looking for a HR Recruitment Apprentice to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.

**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

If you’ve got a passion for people and are looking to start your career in HR and Recruitment, then we have a great opportunity for you!

We’re hiring an HR Recruitment apprentice to join the People team at our Halifax Office. We will be teaming up with an excellent training provider to develop a great apprenticeship programme that will be the perfect stepping stone into your HR career.

You will be involved in supporting will support the People Team and help to provide great recruitment, onboarding and administrative support across the group. You will get involved with a wide range of HR responsibilities including recruitment and administration, learning and development, employee relations and HR systems.

Key responsibilities

• Work with your People team colleagues across Activate Group to provide best practice recruitment support to all team members.
• Support with updating and maintaining HR data and systems.
• Support with internal people administration processes, including: new starters/onboarding, pre-employment checks, terms and conditions changes, maternity, paternity and leavers.
• Support with data gathering, analysis and reporting.
• Support all recruitment activity for our bodyshops, contact centres and wider Group roles ensuring all areas are fully resourced and ongoing recruitment is managed appropriately.
• Assist with the recruitment and selection processes by effectively liaising with managers and candidates.
• Support high volume recruitment campaigns for our bodyshops and contact centres.
• Monitor responses/applications received and make sure that candidate applications are processed efficiently.
• Shortlist and present suitably qualified applicants against defined job vacancies.
• Support attraction events such career fairs, school careers services and apprentice and training provider events.
• Get involved in People Team projects as needed, including engagement initiatives.

Skills and experience

• Strong IT skills
• Strong numeracy skills
• Hardworking and can-do attitude
• Good communication skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Solution-orientated.
• Ability to use your initiative to problem solve and get to the bottom of an issue.

Who are we looking for?

You’ll be passionate about people and keen to get started with your HR career. We're looking for someone who has excellent attention to detail, brilliant communication skills, a positive attitude and the motivation to learn. Perhaps you’ve decided that university isn’t the route for you, and you would prefer to earn while you learn.

Why Activate Group?

It’s an exciting time to join the industry and we’re leading the way by doing things a little bit differently. We pride ourselves on our people and making Activate Group a great place to work! We’re rapidly growing, which means that there will be opportunities throughout your apprenticeship and beyond – it’s the perfect time to join our team.

You will be supported every step of your journey and will work with a designated mentor throughout your time on the programme.

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups

• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay

• Life assurance: three times basic salary

• Amazing Christmas & Summer parties

• Free breakfasts and fruit

• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

We also love to have fun together, and our whole company summer and Christmas parties are pretty legendary!

You’ll also be joining a team of dog lovers - photo included because we believe that pictures of pets make adverts 100x better.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.

• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.

• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.