Recruitment Assistant (Cologne, Germany)

Recruitment Assistant (Cologne, Germany)

ONLY EU passport holders can be considered.

Our client, a prestigious international school in Cologne, Germany, is hiring a Recruitment Assistant for their school. Located in Cologne and joining the central Recruitment department of the school group, our client is seekinga full-time, on-site Recruitment Assistant.

Role Purpose

In this role, you will be involved in full life cycle recruiting including advertising, sourcing, interview, and onboarding. The right person will be comfortable working in a collaborative environment, loves providing creative people solutions, and can thrive in a growing, and fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Recruitment Department in all aspects of recruitment activity.
• Maintain current awareness of best practices in safer recruitment and equality procedures.
• Ensuring that relevant background checks are completed prior to the employment start date.
• Keep appropriate records at all stages of the recruitment process.
• Place advertisements on multiple platforms, including on the school’s website.
• Maintain and update recruitment documentation.
• Manage communication with applicants and other interested parties.
• Issue invitations for first and second-round interviews, providing travel proposals and other support to candidates where necessary.
• Request references for applicants and contact previous employers where relevant.
• Review and approve interview expense claims from candidates.
• Ensure all necessary information is collected from newly recruited staff.
• Act as a point of contact for offering advice and support to newly recruited staff regarding relocation and administrative processes for arrival in Germany. 

Qualifications

• A positive individual with a can-do attitude and the ability to work well as part of a team offering excellent levels of customer service to internal and external contacts.
• Fluency in English is a prerequisite. A good working understanding of German is also desirable.
• Ideally at least 1 year of recruitment/HR experience