We are looking for someone to join our busy recruitment team, on a 12-month fixed term basis.

You will bring innovative ideas and new ways of working to help us hit our goal of recruiting bus drivers. You will be people focused and keen to give all our candidates a great first impression. You will work as part of our busy team but use your own initiative to make things happen quickly.

You will be able available to work safely and partly from home and, partly from our office in Battersea.

Who we are

With over 150 million customers a year. We are the team behind hundreds of buses zipping across London. We couldn’t do this without the people we employ, and we are proud to call them Abellio London employees.

What you will be doing

• Acting as a point of contact to build influential candidate relationships during the selection process
• Maintaining the online Applicant Tracking System (Harbour) for all Bus Driver vacancies
• Interviewing potential candidates
• Coordinating all recruitment & selection activities
• Ensuring that the pre and post offer administrative process for successful candidates is completed
• Participating in job fairs and career events
• Carrying out all stages of the recruitment life cycle. Monitoring and applying  recruiting best practice to ensure excellence in our candidate experience.
• Completing and analysing weekly and monthly data for recruitment reports
• Issuing contracts and offers of employment to successful applicants
• Coordinating the on-boarding process of new employees and the transition of temp-perm employees

What we are looking for

• At least one year of recruitment experience in a high-volume in-house environment.
• Experience in end-to-end recruitment operations
• A great team player, willing to get involved with a positive, can-do attitude
• Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and HR databases
• Experience in running Assessment Centres
• Knowledge of UK Right to Work checks and best practices
• Experience in interviewing, candidate screening and evaluation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong decision-making skills
• Experience attracting and hiring a high volume of candidates in a fast-moving environment
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of the team, to remain calm under pressure.
• Excellent organisational skills, happy working to meet deadlines and the ability to manage competing priorities
• Outstanding organisational skills and flexible approach to your work and quickly respond to the needs of our business

What you will get

Working for us means you get lots of benefits on top of your salary, including:

• Free travel on all Tfl routes for you and a friend or family member
• 25 days of annual leave + Bank Holidays 
• Refer a friend scheme – you can earn an extra £750 for every friend you refer as an already qualified  bus driver.
• Our contributory pension scheme – you put in 5% of your salary each month and we’ll add 3% on top.
• Life insurance (if you sign up to the pension scheme)
• Salary sacrifice benefits – you can choose to get things like a new laptop, smart watch, TV or phone
• Discounts from shops and retailers – including Apple, Adidas, Nike, Vue, Odeon, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and more
• Eye test vouchers
• Free online and face-to-face counselling, legal advice and more through our employee assistance programme

Interviews will take place W/C 9th May 2022

Everybody’s welcome

Abellio London supports diversity and inclusion and is committed to eliminating discrimination and encourages diversity amongst the workforce which is truly representative of all sections of society.