Recruitment and Talent

The Recruitment and Talent family sits within the Human Resources practice area. An example career pathway could take you from Recruitment Advisor to Head of Recruitment.

What is Recruitment and Talent?

UCL has a focus on best practice recruitment and selection techniques that necessitates a specialised approach to ensure that UCL is able to attract, identify, grow and retain the very best talent. Our growing talent capability supports staff to develop potential in individuals and to plan for necessary skills to fit our changing organizational needs.

Recruitment and Talent activity at UCL is generally decentralised and is rarely part of a specialised role outside of central HR. This work is frequently carried out by departmental administrators and managers, local HR officers, or staffing team within departments.

Whether working in local or central specialist recruitment environments, the skill sets of recruitment and talent professionals at different levels in this job family include understanding and translating data and reporting into resourcing and talent management approaches, designing and tailoring recruitment and talent management approaches across diverse demographics.

In recruitment work includes identifying and selecting the best routes to the job market for specific roles, seeking diversity through proactive initiatives, designing and selecting assessment approaches. In talent the focus is on identifying and acting on key succession data around skills shortages, understanding longer-term career potential, the exclusion of under-represented groups and ‘critical contributors’ in the organisation.

Colleagues with a focus on talent support carrying out appraisal processes in a timely and meaningful way, either from a central overview or local perspective. They support line managers to identify key skills and career experiences needed for their staff to succeed at work and help address any patterns and themes in barriers that may be blocking that process.