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Talent Acquisition Specialist

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Ryanair, over our 40 year history has grown to become Europe’s largest airline group connecting more guests across more routes than any other European carrier. We are a fast-paced, ambitious and innovative company, offering exciting career opportunities across aviation, technology, operations and support functions. Now is a fantastic time to join as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300m guests within the next 8 years. 

Ryanair are currently recruiting for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join Europe’s Largest Airline Group 

Our recruitment team is one of the best and busiest in Europe. They are responsible for over 10K hires per year and are constantly travelling to events around Europe and beyond to promote a career in Ryanair to potential talent.

The successful candidate will act as a ‘Business Partner’ and work closely with Hiring Managers for the delivery of efficient and quality hires with 360 recruitment in their business areas and assist in other areas when required. 

Duties include;

  • Owning the full recruitment process including partnering with hiring managers to understand recruitment needs, creating effective job descriptions and designing the recruitment strategy for open roles across a range of business areas.
  • Management and maintenance of all recruitment related queries including applicant queries, role queries and email applications such as the ATS system.
  • Manage full cycle recruiting process (advertising, screening of candidates, shortlisting, facilitating interviews, extending offers, closing candidates)
  • Promoting Ryanair as an employer of choice by attending various exhibitions, hosting open days and university visits.
  • Weekly reporting of recruitment activity.
  • Oversight of internal background check process 
  • Ad hoc duties as required.
  • 1 + years HR, TA or agency experience, is desirable
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent attention to detail and efficient at multi-tasking and highly organised
  • Adaptable to a fast paced always changing environment
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Good presentation skills.
  • Most importantly a good sense of humour and eagerness to progress!
  • Experience using Smartrecuiters is desirable 
  • Competitive salary
  • Discounted and unlimited travel to over 235 destinations
  • Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
  • Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary
  • 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.
  • Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
  • Cycle 2 Work Scheme
  • Unrivalled career progression

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Changes to our Application Process.

We are in the process of making a number of changes to our application process and overall candidate experience. This will occur in a number of phases and you may be required to create a new candidate profile or input some additional info for your application to be progressed. If you have already successfully applied for a role, we kindly ask that you do not re-apply for this. Our teams will be in touch by phone or email if we wish to progress your application to the next stage.

Thank you for your understanding and patience at this time and we wish you the best of luck with your application.