Office Assistant/Recruitment Administrator

Job description

We are currently recruiting an Office Assistant/Recruitment Administrator for our friendly team. It is fanatastic opporunituty for graduate or junior who is looking for career progression.

The role

• Fast-paced and varied role
• Ideal for a graduate
• Potential for progression
• Learn many valuable and transferable skills
• Part of a lively and dynamic team

Duties

• Answering the phone and dealing with queries, taking messages or directing them towards the right person
• Greeting visitors at the door and dealing with queries etc.
• Dealing with e-mail and postal job applications and forwarding to the relevant consultant
• Assisting candidates with their registration forms if necessary before their interview with a Consultant
• Putting together registration packs
• Assisting the Payroll Administrator and the Recruitment Consultants with various tasks
• Sending out payslips via email and invoices
• Updating the availability sheets for temporary workers using Microsoft Excel
• Data entry
• Posting jobs on job boards and the company website
• Writing and mail-merging letters
• General administrative duties including scanning, faxing, photocopying etc.
• May be opportunity for some creative work - designing posters, leaflets etc.
• Doing shopping for office supplies
• Keeping social media up to date - company Facebook / Twitter pages
• To be part of the 24 hrs 7 day a week on call team

Essential skills and qualities

• Polite and friendly
• Good telephone manner
• Computer and internet literate - ideally with experience using Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
• Articulate with excellent written english
• Decent level of maths
• Ability to work under pressure
• Need to show initiative but work well as part of a team
• Must enjoy working with and speaking to people as it is a very busy office

Desirable skills and qualities

• Intermediate knowledge of computers
• Office or administration experience is a plus but not a necessity as you will be fully trained

Misc

• May be the opportunity to learn to use Sage 50! for payroll holiday cover
• Permanent

Start date: Immediate

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:45 - 17.15 with up to an hours lunch break

Salary: £15,000