Industrial Placement - People & Culture - Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding

As an Industrial Placement Student at Bentley, you will play a key part in Bentley’s journey to extraordinary vehicles for our customers. Based out of our state-of-the-art headquarters in Crewe, you will gain hands on experience in a 360 recruitment lifecycle and support employer branding and outreach activities.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working alongside the Talent Acquisition team, you will help deliver our 2028 Industrial Placement, Graduate and Apprentice recruitment programmes. This includes partnering with hiring managers, creating job adverts, reviewing applications, coordinating assessments and supporting candidates through to offer stage.
• Working with the Employer Brand Manager, you will help create engaging content for our careers website and social media channels. You'll identify inspiring colleagues, stories and locations that showcase what it's like to work here and support our attraction campaigns.
• You will analyse the success of recruitment campaigns, using data and insights to understand application trends, diversity outcomes and employer brand impact, and make recommendations for future improvements.
• You will support the Talent Acquisition team with experienced hire recruitment activities, gaining exposure to a range of hiring programmes across the business.
• You will lead a project focused on continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, improve candidate experience or increase team effectiveness.

Department: Talent Acquisition

The Talent Acquisition team connects talented people with exciting career opportunities at Bentley. Supporting our Beyond100+ strategy, we work to attract, engage and recruit diverse talent across all areas of the business through employer branding, outreach activities, assessment and selection processes, and leadership hiring.

What we are looking for:

The successful candidates will be on track to achieve a 2:1 in the following degrees: Marketing, Business, Human Resources, Organisational Psychology.

Skills required:

• Highly organised and proactive with the ability to prioritise competing priorities.
• Customer centric with the ability to communicate, engage and influence a broad range of stakeholders.
• Analytical and data driven with a continuous improvement and results focussed mindset.

What we offer:

As an Industrial Placement you will have access to the following benefits:

• A starting salary of £25,500
• Support from our Early Careers team and 121 manager mentorship
• 35 days’ holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• 10% pension contribution with life assurance benefits
• Learning and development opportunities

Right To Work:

To be eligible for an Early Careers programme you must have a legal right to work in the UK for the duration of the placement or graduate scheme. We welcome students who have Settled Status, a Tier 4 Visa, or a Graduate Visa. We are unable to offer sponsorship for our Early Careers positions.

Application Process:

• Submit your application, including your CV and Cover letter,
• Applications will be screened by our HR team and the Hiring Manager,
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by our recruitment team and invited to attend an online Assessment between 9th – 27th November,
• Candidates successful at assessment stage will receive an offer shortly afterwards.
• All applicants will be kept informed throughout the recruitment process