HR Graduate Scheme - FTC

Job description

HR Graduate Scheme - FTC 

Do you believe the world deserves excellence? 
As the leading business standards company, our client work with organisations to help shape standards of excellence worldwide. 

They currently have an exciting opportunity to join as part of the Group People Development team based in their Global Chiswick Head Office. 

Position: Group People Development Graduate 
Location: Chiswick, London 
Salary: £18,000 pro rata 
Contract: Fixed term contract until 31st May 2016 

Closing date: 18th September 
Telephone Interviews: 21st September 
Face-To-Face Interviews: either 24th or 25th September 

About the Role: 
The Group People Development Graduate role aims to provide fundamental understanding of how our client develops its global employee. It will enable first-hand experience of how people development fits within the overall HR strategy for our client, as well as practical experience in contributing to Group-Level People Development solutions, with the opportunity to gain excellent hands-on vocational experience in co-ordinating strategic people development in a fast-paced, commercial, customer focused environment. This will be a great way to kick-start a career in people development or a related field. 

The departments: 
The Group People Development team is responsible for supporting the development of our client’s 3000 or so global employees who are based in across 3 regions: Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). 

They are involved in everything from selecting and recruiting the most talented people into the organisation to making their people managers more effective and designing tools and development opportunities that will make people more effective and more satisfied at work. This is a big challenge, but a very rewarding job and one which you will be directly involve in. 

The People Development team is made up of a small but strong team of two, however, they get their work done by interacting with all of their HR colleagues – there are over 30 professionals across the globe so you’ll gain great experience of working closely as part of an extended team. 

About You: 
To be considered for this role, you will be currently undertaking, or have recently completed an undergraduate or postgraduate course / qualification in learning and development, human resources, occupational psychology or a related field. You will need to have, or be on course to achieve a degree classification of 2:1 and above. 

The Group People Development Graduate will have the opportunity to gain valuable vocational experience– in particular they will be provided with professional practitioner development. The Graduate will contribute to Group People Development activities across the employee lifecycle such as leadership programmes, talent management and succession planning, annual personal development reviews, employer feedback surveys, online interactive tools, e-learning & psychometrics. It is essential that the Graduate demonstrates commitment and contribution to the vision and objectives of the department, evidenced through showing positive, proactive, can-do and solution-focused mind-set, attitude and behaviours at all times. 

What they offer: 
They offer a highly competitive starting salary, and are offering 27 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days pro rata. A comprehensive learning and development scheme / programme, company-paid private medical insurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your life-style. 

About our client: 
Our client is the business standards company that equips businesses with the necessary solutions to turn standards of best practice into habits of excellence. Formed in 1901, they were the world’s first National Standards Body and a founding member of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Over a century later it continues to facilitate business improvement across the globe by helping its clients drive performance, manage risk and grow sustainably through the adoption of international management systems standards, many of which they originated. Renowned for its marks of excellence, our client’s influence spans multiple sectors including aerospace, construction, energy, engineering, finance, healthcare, IT and retail, with around 3,000 staff in 67 offices worldwide: 56% of which are now located outside the UK. Our client brings its global expertise and local knowledge to serve
80,000 clients in 170 countries across the world, they are an organisation whose standards inspire excellence across the globe. 

To apply, please submit a CV along with a covering letter demonstrating you have the knowledge, skills and experience that they are looking for. 

You may have experience of the following: Graduate, Trainee, HR, Human Resources, Graduate Scheme, Learning and Development Graduate, L&D, Occupational Psychology, Human Resources Placement, Graduate Programme, People Development, HR Graduate etc. 

This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.