HR Graduate Scheme 2021
One of Toyota's Guiding Principles is to foster a respectful, reflective culture where individual creativity and teamwork can flourish. That makes HR a visible, valuable part of our operation. To keep our products progressing and our processes evolving, itis essential to develop our people. Our HR specialists are influential experts, and most employment issues are their business. To succeed in HR, you'll need to be a team player yourself - as comfortable and confident on the shop floor as you are with your senior managers.
Your time here
Over the two-year scheme there will be a variety of tasks and projects you could be involved with and manage, including headcount planning and data analysis, bench-marking benefits, recruitment campaigns, performance & reward, industrial relations, shaping learning and development initiatives and interviewing. Graduates in the past have led projects on: talent management, workforce succession planning, internal & external vacancies, Diversity & Inclusion, employee engagement and many more.
You will be given real responsibilities right from day 1 and whatever you are working on, will stretch your problem solving skills and introduce you to people at all levels of management. It will be a challenging scheme consistently testing your abilities and capabilities, but equally there is plenty of support from your mentor, section manager, and colleagues. There is training to equip you with transferable skills commercial skills and we can sponsor you towards a CIPD qualification, if that is the direction you wish to take.
All graduates will take part in six weeks of line training. This will mean that for those six weeks you will work on an area where we build the cars down on the shop floor. Although tough, this experience is extremely rewarding and interesting and gives you a real hands-on insight into what Toyota Manufacturing is all about. We believe this experience is crucial for your personal development and rather unique to our company. We place great emphasis on learning by doing - usually through structured, on-the-job training. So, over the course of our programme, you'll find yourself tackling live projects and taking on real responsibilities in your chosen field. Our graduate programme lasts just over 2 years, it is assessed and designed to help you reach the standard needed to move into a specialist position at the end of the programme.
What we look for
We're looking for individuals who will share our values and believe that there's always a better way. So, if you thrive on analysing problems from different angles to develop solutions and take a practical approach to your work, you could go a long way with us. You should also have a consistently strong academic record, with a minimum 2:1 predicted/recently achieved at degree level.