DAS Ltd

Talent Acquisition Specialist – Defence and Energy Sectors

DAS Ltd

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bristol • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £38,000 - £45,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Work collaboratively with hiring managers to gain an in-depth understanding of their recruitment requirements
  • Write and post creative job adverts that attract the highest calibre talent
  • Source candidates through various channels, with a strong focus on proactively approaching and engaging with passive candidates (headhunting)
  • Conduct in-depth telephone interviews with candidates to assess their suitability for a role
  • Ensure a best-in-class experience for all candidates who engage with DAS Ltd, including ensuring they receive prompt application and interview feedback
  • Keep on top of industry-specific recruitment trends and identify effective and up to date methods to attract talent
  • Supporting ongoing project activity, and the delivery of recruitment administration tasks

Requirements

  • The successful Talent Acquisition Specialist must have extensive experience of talent acquisition for specialist, hard-to-fill, or niche positions. You must also have a strong background working in an in-house recruitment role or externally within the defence sector.
  • A thorough understanding of full-cycle recruitment
  • Experience recruiting in some of our core capability areas, e.g. Project Management, Project Controls, Systems Thinking, OR, Data Science, Business Change.
  • Experience in recruiting within critical infrastructure domains: defence, energy/nuclear, water utilities, transport, central government etc.
  • Excellent communication and people skills
  • A personable and approachable demeanour
  • Experience developing Boolean and keyword searches
  • A self-motivated approach to work
  • Effective time management skills and the ability to adapt to when priorities change
  • The ability to build strong working relationships with the business and with candidates
Benefits
  • £38,000 - £45,000 depending on experience
  • This role is a hybrid working position. Successful candidates must be able to travel to our offices in Basingstoke or Bristol on a regular basis. Travel to other offices may also be required.
  • Private pension, private healthcare for you and your immediate family, and private dentalcare
  • Death-in-service and income protection schemes
  • 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays, and additional days to work on environmental and community activities.
  • Discretionary office closure over Christmas
  • Personal carbon offset through company scheme
  • Access to professional and personal development platform, Udemy

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
full-cycle recruitmentBoolean searcheskeyword searchestalent acquisitionproject managementproject controlssystems thinkingdata sciencebusiness change
Soft skills
communication skillspeople skillspersonable demeanorapproachabilityself-motivationtime managementadaptabilityrelationship building