Talent Acquisition Associate – Contract

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Talent Acquisition Associate managing recruitment for infrastructure projects such as HS2 and Heathrow. Responsible for sourcing candidates and maintaining recruitment workflows with hiring managers.

Posted 7/29/2026contractLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in end-to-end recruitment processes, including sourcing, screening, and closing candidates, particularly in technology and data sectors. Strong writing skills are essential for effective outreach and communication with candidates and hiring managers.

Highest-signal resume keywords

End-To-End RecruitmentHeadhuntingCandidate OutreachPerformance ReportingTechnology Recruiting

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Hard Skills

SourcingScreeningMarket MappingConversion Rate AnalysisFunnel Management

Soft Skills

AmbitionSelf-LearningEffective Communication

Industry Keywords

Technology RecruitingData RecruitingMid-Career ProfessionalsExperienced ProfessionalsCandidate Engagement

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape how the world's biggest infrastructure gets built — HS2, Heathrow, Sizewell C and more.
Own the whole thing. Five to seven live searches, brief to accepted offer.
Hunt for people who don't answer job ads.
Work like a talent team of five, as one person.
Source actively, every day. Build target lists and market maps, find people who aren't looking, and write outreach that gets replies from people who ignore twelve InMails a week.
Run five to seven searches end to end. Intake, market map, outbound, screen, coordination, offer, close.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Around two years of hands-on recruiting where you found your own candidates — outbound, headhunting, referrals, networks — rather than working a queue of inbound applicants.
Experience recruiting in technology, data, or adjacent fields, for mid-career and experienced professionals rather than graduate or early careers programmes.
You teach yourself things. Tell us about something you learned on your own initiative and what you did with it.
Ambition in the specific sense we mean it: reaching past the brief.
You're comfortable with numbers — conversion rates, funnel maths, honest reporting on your own performance.
You write well. Outreach, candidate updates, hiring manager summaries. Writing is most of this job.

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 days paid vacation
Flexible working hours
Breakfast at work
Regular social & team events