Early Talent Recruitment Advisor
Location: Dartford, Manchester or Worksop | Full-time | 6 months FTC - Potential to go permanent
Laing O'Rourke is looking for an Early Talent Recruitment Specialist to support our graduate and early careers programmes across the UK.
This role sits at the heart of our early talent entry point, managing end‑to‑end recruitment for a high‑volume pipeline of around 16,000 applications per year. You'll play a key role in attracting diverse talent, delivering engaging recruitment experiences, and promoting Laing O'Rourke as an employer of choice.
What you'll do:
- Deliver end‑to‑end early talent recruitment, from attraction through to offer
- Manage high‑volume CV sifting and application pipelines
- Coordinate and deliver recruitment events, assessment centres, careers fairs, and university engagement
- Present confidently to students and stakeholders, promoting Laing O'Rourke programmes
- Drive strong candidate engagement and inclusive recruitment practices
- Use data and insights to improve processes and support diversity outcomes
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers and wider stakeholders
What we're looking for:
- Experience in graduate or high‑volume recruitment (end‑to‑end)
- Strong background in CV sifting and candidate management
- Passion for early careers, attraction activity, and inclusivity
- Confident communicator and presenter
- Comfortable working at pace and managing competing priorities
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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