2025 Graduate - Talent Acquisition Associate

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2025 Graduate - Talent Acquisition Associate

Sector: Legal, Recruitment
Role: Entry Level
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Job Title: Talent Acquisition Associate

At Laing O'Rourke, we do more than construct buildings and critical infrastructure - we build careers, communities, and futures. As a valued member of our Resourcing team, you'll work alongside talented professionals who are passionate about securing the best people to deliver projects that transform lives.

Role Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and detail-oriented Talent Acquisition Associate to join our in-house recruitment team. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate to kickstart their career in resourcing and recruitment within a dynamic and supportive environment. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in attracting, engaging, and securing top talent to join our organisation while gaining hands-on experience in end-to-end recruitment processes. We care deeply about thinking differently about how to solve our challenges such as skill shortages, attracting greater diversity into construction and accessing a global talent pool.

No one day is the same but the below outlines some of the areas you can expect to be involved in. As often the first touch point people have with the business you will have an important role in the candidate experience and journey.

• Spotting Talent: Collaborate with hiring managers to understand their needs and help identify top candidates for a wide range of roles.
• Creating Connections: Engage with candidates, build talent pipelines, and ensure they have a seamless recruitment experience.
• Bringing Our Brand to Life: Represent us at career fairs and networking events, showcasing our business as an employer of choice.
• Shaping Futures: Support onboarding processes to ensure new starters have the best possible welcome to the business.
• Innovating Recruitment: Help improve processes and get involved in exciting projects, such as diversity and inclusion initiatives or tech-driven hiring solutions.

Location:

• Sale
• Dartford, Kent

Degree Subjects: A degree in Business, HR, Psychology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Key Deliverables and Accountabilities:

1. Recruitment Process Coordination:
   • Assist in drafting job descriptions, posting vacancies on job boards, and managing applicant tracking systems (ATS).
   • Screen CV's and applications including pre-screening and shortlisting candidates.
   • Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring a seamless candidate experience.
   • Maintain regular communication with candidates to keep them informed about the recruitment process.
2. Candidate Engagement:
   • Support employer branding initiatives to attract graduate talent, such as career fairs, social media campaigns, and university partnerships.
   • Build relationships with potential candidates and maintain talent pipelines.
   • Respond to candidate inquiries in a professional and timely manner.
3. Administrative Support:
   • Ensure all recruitment documentation is accurate and up-to-date.
   • Support with onboarding tasks, such as preparing offer letters and contracts.
   • Assist in generating recruitment reports and analyzing data to improve processes.
4. Team Collaboration:
   • Work closely with hiring managers to understand job requirements and team needs.
   • Partner with the recruitment team on special projects, such as diversity and inclusion initiatives.
   • Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes and tools.

The Laing O'Rourke Graduate Development Programme - what can you expect?
Our graduate programme is designed to embrace and develop your capabilities. Most importantly, you will be encouraged to continue learning throughout your career. You will be stretched, challenged and supported by a business that views your personal development and the achievement of professional accreditation as a priority.

Our 2.5-year programme will give you practical experience, technical learning and professional development while being part of some of the most exciting construction and infrastructure projects in the UK.

Entry requirements:

• Eligible to work in the UK with a valid work permit if applicable.
• Full mobility as you may be required to relocate/travel for your role.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
• A degree course with a clear route to professional accreditation.
• Your degree classification should be 2:2 or higher.
• Entry degrees will be listed within each of our graduate vacancies and differ from role to role.

**The Graduate Development Programme will commence in September 2025**

Company

We 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 an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Diversity & Inclusion: Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES: Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues.
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders – We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering with Even Break to have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050.
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff.

Rewards and Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade