Resourcing Partner Review

I am a resourcing partner. My role is to recruit for all our entry level positions into the business from start to end. I am responsible for meeting with hiring managers, advertising the roles on boots.jobs, shortlisting candidates, arranging interviews and making offers. I also create interview packs when necessary and am involved in a project at the moment regarding how we could collate our candidate feedback better.

My confidence has been the biggest thing that has grown during the role. I have also learnt how to become resillient, especially when hiring managers are shouting I know not to take this personally. I have excellent time keeping skills, and am an enthusiastic member of the team. I have been on in-house training courses focusing on creativity and coaching, and have had external training on LinkedIn.

I love working for Boots and the team I am currently in as it is such a fast paced team with masses of responsibility. The company culture is fantastic and it fits my work/life balance perfectly, allowing me time to complete my day job, college work and also have a life! I am enjoying the most part of the programme, however I feel the NVQ part of the qualification I am taking is not suited to Boots culture which makes the units harder.

I feel very valued by Boots. I have regular 1:1's with my manager where I am praised for things that I have done well. I have been given several Thank you cards during my time here, and also mentioned in the HR huddle infront of the whole of HR for great things that I have done.

The interview process to the programme was very long winded waiting for the outcome as to whether you had been sucessful or not (told in July) and when you start the programme (started late October). The support I have recieved from the programme leader has been good, whenever I have needed something I have felt the programme leader is approachable and listens. Studying has been harder than expected, especially with such challanging and busy roles and I sometimes feel like the class is too big for my tutor to support us as well as I'd like. We have regular apprentice reviews/team days which are always organised to a high standard.

I think the step up from A Levels at a sixthform with small classes, to a level 4 qualification with almost 30 people has been a hard jump. Support is there from tutors if needed, but it is always hard to book a time slot to get this. I feel like when we are set a deadline (which I always meet), others don't meet this and there doesn't seem to be any consequences for this meaning people take the mick. I can email or ring my tutor at anytime if I need any futher support, and they usually respond quickly.

My manager is fantastic at supporting me. We have regular 1:1's, if I need anything I can just ask her. She is very understanding of college work and how hard I have found the change of coming into such a busy role. She guides me and coaches me through problems, and trusts me to get on with my day job and gives me lots of responsibility. I do not have a mentor - this was partly through my own choice of not getting around to applying for one again as the person I requested to be my mentor when I first joined the programme didn't think we was a good match.

The salary package is okay. It costs me around £200 a month to travel to work and back, once I have paid my bills and have put my savings away for a house there is little left for myself.

There are several opportunities outside of work. There is a yoga class on site after work, we have a gym here and teams often go out after work for dinner.

Yes

Boots have gave me a great platform to raise my profile amongst the business - especially in HR which is where I see my career developing. The programme is allowing me to study as well as learn new skills and this will hopefully lead to a permanent position moving up a level in my current role.

During the interview and application process I'd tell people to try and not be nervous (hard I know), but the interviewers/assessors make you feel so relaxed there really isn't any need to be nervous. I'd also say, put some background work in and if you are set a task to do beforehand ensure you do this with lots of effort as this shines through.