HR & Recruitment Assistant (Placement/ Graduate)

HR & Recruitment Assistant (Placement / Graduate)

Bicester: Hybrid working, Bicester Office 3 days

Salary: £23,000 - £25,000

The opportunity:

Stratton HR are a team with a passion for delivering first class HR Consultancy Service to our clients. We provide HR support across talent acquisition, performance management, employee relations, reward, org design and L&D for a number of clients. Our team members thrive working in an environment that is solution driven and ever-changing, where no two days are the same.

We are looking for a driven and determined student wishing to gain real-life exposure to HR across a multitude of facets. Our placement / graduate role offers you the opportunity to gain valuable commercial experience and broad exposure to HR from the offset. From day one, you will be mentored by HR professionals who will guide and support you to ensure you get the best out of your placement.

You will work as part of a busy HR team to provide operational HR support to a number of clients whilst also supporting the team with strategic HR projects and people initiatives. You will gain an understanding of many aspects of the HR function including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Employee Relations / Employment Law, Employee Engagement as well as all HR related administration and documentation.

As a virtual organisation with consultants and associates based across the UK, we encourage a mixture of office working (from our offices in Bicester) and working from home.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your HR and administration skills working with a fun and supportive team.

To be considered for the role, you should be available to start April / May 2025 and have completed two years of an undergraduate degree course or have recently graduated and looking for your first role in HR. You should have a positive attitude, good organisational skills with a flexible approach together with the ability to use initiative, meet deadlines and prioritise high volumes of work. As this role is partly office based, you must have your own transport.

What you will be doing:

• Support the team in delivering diverse HR projects which would include Performance Management frameworks, restructuring exercises, organisational due diligence and reviews, HR infrastructure, reward and wellbeing programmes, and a range of resourcing initiatives.
• Support all resourcing activity from sourcing to offer, including strategy, negotiating competitive advertising rates, advertising of roles, managing the advertising spend, maintaining the costings spreadsheet, reporting on key metrics, database management, interview scheduling, psychometric evaluation and delivering candidate feedback.
• Provide first line HR support, acting as the first point of contact for basic HR queries relating to the HR database, annual leave, sickness and HR admin
• Produce Monthly client HR reports with detail of key HR metrics. Analyse HR data to provide meaningful observations and recommendations for clients
• Maintain employee, sickness and TOIL data on HR databases and ensure supporting HR documentation is completed for these
• Produce ad hoc HR Reports for clients as requested
• Provide administrative support and conduct research where required, to both clients and consultants.
• Co-ordinate HR administrative tasks including creating contracts and offer letters, responding to employee enquiries and confidential employee data management.
• Supporting with Communication and Marketing initiatives as required
• Pro-actively contribute towards the continuous improvement of internal HR processes for the business.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Good at managing your time and priorities to deal with a high workload in a calm manner
• Genuine drive and enthusiasm, ability to work with minimal supervision. Self-motivated.
• Collaborative team player, with a can-do attitude
• Able to work in a confidential manner and handle sensitive information appropriately
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of Microsoft applications in particular Excel & Word
• Good problem-solving skills, identifying solutions
• Good technical aptitude for systems and process with the ability to learn quickly
• Strong analytical skills
• An eye for detail and passionate about delivering a high quality service – right first time approach
• Strong research skills and ability to ‘think outside the box.’
• Available to start April / May 2025

What you get as part of working with us:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Medicash healthcare cash plan, including retail, travel and gym discounts
• Pension – 5% employee, 3% employer
• Life assurance x 4
• 35 hour working week
• Development opportunities