Recruitment & Retention Internship, Cancer Research
£21.7k
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£21.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the customer group and the types of roles to be recruited
- Keeps abreast of latest developments in recruitment industry
- Able to identify areas of further improvement for hiring managers or candidate experiences
- Demonstrates an enthusiasm and passion for resourcing
What the job involves
- 7 hours per day, 4/5 days per week
- Contract Length: 12 weeks (3 July – 22 Sept)
- Lead on specific recruitment projects within Supporter Services with particular focus on improving the recruitment and selection process and practices as well as facilitating the interview process
- To develop a recruitment and retention improvement plan for Supporter Services
- Build networks/relationships with potential sources such as universities, return to work candidates, later stage career candidates, apprenticeships and interns
Application process
- Stage 1: Online application
- Complete an online application form – you’ll be asked to answer a motivational competency question and upload your CV
- In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure you fill out all of the required fields as well as uploading a CV, as they will be collected for use later in the process
- If you experience any problems submitting an application, please email earlycareers@cancer.org.uk
- Stage 2: Assessment
- If your initial application is successful you will then be invited to complete our new situational judgment test. The test poses real life scenarios that a CRUK intern might be met with in their day-to-day role and asks how you would tackle that scenario. This is un-timed and multiple choice. Please let us know if you think you might require adjustments for this assessment
- Stage 3: Audio Submission
- If you are successful in the previous stage, you will be asked to complete an audio submission, answering competency-based questions. The questions will be emailed to you and you will have a few days to submit a response via an audio recording (no video required)
- Stage 4: Interviews
- If you are successful in the previous stage, you will then be invited to a face-to-face interview at our head office with representatives from the team you are applying to
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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