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As well as being the UK’s No.1 Educational Publisher, CGP’s also a great place to work. We’re independent, unashamedly non-corporate and we only ever employ positive and friendly people who’ll slot into our quirky culture. If this sounds like you, why not join our People Team?
What will I be doing?
We’re looking for someone who’ll muck in and help us support our 275 hard-working employees, as well as the thousands of applicants who contact us, wanting to work at CGP. The role’s varied — drafting job adverts, handling applications, organising assessment days for candidates, planning inductions and processing changes to pay and benefits. Once you’re up-and-running, there’ll be plenty of recruitment and people projects to take on too.
What about skills?
You’ll need to be meticulous, super-organised, and a great communicator — in writing and on the phone. You’ll be used to working in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving problems and thrive on taking responsibility. You won’t need any HR qualifications to do well but you’ll need a really positive attitude and impressive academics to make you stand out. And of course you’ll be fab to have around the office and not at all shy when face-to-face with candidates.
Role & responsibilities
This is a varied role. There’s the day-to-day recruitment admin of course — and at times it’ll take over your day. You’ll be juggling several campaigns at a time with hundreds of applicants all desperate to hear from you! But creativity is needed too. You’ll be:
- Drafting adverts, job descriptions and internal communications that reflect CGP’s quirky personality
- Helping to promote CGP as a great place to work
- Planning assessments that challenge but get the best out of candidates
- Running assessment days, putting candidates at ease and dealing with any unexpected happenings (power cuts, nose bleeds… they’ve all happened!)
- Arranging first-class induction programmes for each new employee
- Processing changes to pay and benefits
- Supporting the People Team as a whole with general admin / adhoc projects
Key skills & attributes
As part of the People Team, you’ll be handling lots of confidential information, so you’ll be completely trustworthy with bags of integrity. You’ll also need to be:
- Cheerful, enthusiastic and flexible — great to work with and ready to muck in with the team’s priorities, be it recruitment or other people issues
- Able to talk to anyone and put them at ease
- Supremely organised, methodical and meticulous — let’s call it an ‘expert juggler’
- Bright with a great grasp of the English language — as a respected publishing company we can’t afford to let our standards slip
- Collaborative but also happy using your initiative, taking responsibility for the high quality of your work
- Open-minded, non-judgmental and eager to respond positively to feedback
- Keen to use technology to help us attract and appoint the very best people
- A driver – we have 4 main sites in the South Lakes, all within 20 minutes of each other
