Talent Coordinator

Talent Coordinator

We’re looking for an experienced Talent Coordinator to join our high performing People Support Team on a temporary basis. As a core function, we play a valuable role in the successful growth of the company by ensuring that our end-to-end process from talent attraction through to on-boarding is best in class.

This is a temporary role for a minimum period of 6 months depending on business requirements.

Reporting to the Head of People Support, we are looking for a passionate individual who will be a strong advocate of our culture and values and contribute to making Chess ‘a GREAT place to work. You will be a professional and commercially astute individual who is passionate about people engagement, culture, performance and recruiting the best talent.

“a great place to work, a great place to be a customer”

The Role:

• Manage and improve the full end to end recruitment process from advertising, sourcing and through to on-boarding to retain quality candidates.
• Proactively recruiting high performing talent through an inclusive and fair recruitment process using a variety of methods including LinkedIn.
• CV searching, pre-screening and shortlisting suitable candidates.
• Remain active with job boards, social networks and platforms for finding quality candidates and create and post job descriptions and announcements.
• Assist with writing of job adverts, interview documents and marketing material.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with our people across the Chess Group.
• Assist with the continuous improvement of the interview and recruitment assessment process.
• Continuous development of the recruitment process to address departmental needs and skills gaps.
• Building a talent pipeline for roles within the business and ensure we are remaining creative, innovative and supporting continuous growth.
• Promote EVP across multiple platforms internal and external.
• Provide accurate and valuable recruitment information and reports to the Head of People Support.
• Maintain database of candidate records, including active and passive prospects, hired and employees that have left.

The Candidate:

• Previous experience of sourcing candidates in a fast paced, high-volume environment.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with your team and Leaders across the group
• Previous experience of using LinkedIn
• Strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and structure feedback both positive and negative
• Ability to remain calm and confident when working in difficult situations and under pressure
• Ability to handle and maintain confidential information.
• Highly organised with excellent time management skills.

Why join Chess?

Chess is one of the UK's leading independent and trusted technology service providers, employing over 350 skilled people across the UK, supporting over 21,000 UK businesses.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion is at the heart of our Chess culture and we are passionate about our One Team spirit.

We're extremely proud that our people voted us No.1 in 'The 100 Best Companies to Work for' list 2018,No.1 in the Northwest in 2023 and we continue to celebrate more than 15 years in the top 100.

Our continued focus on growth creates opportunity for everyone to progress their career, to develop knowledge and skills, to gain reward and recognition and to maximise their potential. The growth and success of our people ensures the growth and success of our business.

We believe that “if you’re not growing, we’re not growing”.

Salary details: Up to £30,000 dependent on experience

Benefits include:

• Health care support – UK Healthcare, eye tests, flu jabs, onsite health screens
• Enhanced Pay: Maternity, Paternity, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave
• Access to employee benefits, rewards and recognition platform, Perkbox. This gives you access to hundreds of ‘Perks’ with great discounts. Whether it be days out, your weekly food shop, a clothes shopping spree on the high street and many more.
• Hybrid working support - Allowance towards a home desk and chair
• Loyalty point scheme – allowing you to use your points to increase your benefits each year
• Access to our Future Fit benefits package – including Mental, Physical and Financial support
• 20 days paid holiday p.a. increased upon anniversaries, ultimately to 24 days p.a., plus public holidays.
• Buy & sell Holiday scheme – 2 opportunities per year to buy or sell up to 5 holidays
• Additional holidays: Half Day Fridays and a Wellbeing Day
• £100 per year matched charity donation, plus payroll giving options

Hours: A standard week is 37½ Monday to Friday

At Chess we offer many flexible working options, and we have both full-time and part-time working hours available. Chess pride themselves on being an inclusive employer, so if you want to find out more about our flexible working arrangements this can be discussed with your application.

Working location: Hybrid working position – there will be a requirement to attend our Alderley Edge Office for a minimum of two days per week.

Allowing you to enjoy the flexibility of working from home whilst also having the option to work from one of our many local hubs spread throughout the UK. Ad-hoc travel to offices within the group and other locations may be required on occasion.

Is Chess the place for you?

If you are looking for a career that brings exciting challenges and opportunities, then Chess is the place for you.

Please email your CV and covering letter to our Recruitment Department at: recruitment@chessict.co.uk.

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