Job Title: Recruitment Assessor
Salary: £32,500
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Hybrid (3 days in Solihull, 2 days at home)
About the role
We’re looking for a detail-focused Recruitment Assessor to support a major Armed Forces recruitment programme.
In this role, you will be responsible for reviewing and evaluating digital video interviews to ensure candidates meet the required standards before progressing through the recruitment process for careers within the UK’s Armed Forces.
You’ll assess candidate motivation, suitability, and alignment using a structured scoring matrix, ensuring consistency, fairness, and compliance at every stage.
This is not a traditional recruiter role. It’s a high-trust position where your judgement and attention to detail will directly impact hiring quality and speed.
This is a fast-paced role requiring strong analytical thinking, sound decision-making, and the ability to work efficiently within defined frameworks.
What’s in it for you
· Competitive salary with progression opportunities
· Hybrid working model
· Opportunity to support a nationally significant project
· Structured training and development
· Supportive and collaborative team culture
· Pension scheme and employee benefits package
Your role will include:
· Reviewing and assessing high volumes of digital video interviews
· Applying structured scoring frameworks to evaluate candidate suitability
· Producing accurate, high-quality assessment reports
· Updating candidate records within the ATS in a timely manner
· Ensuring fair, inclusive, and consistent assessment practices
· Collaborating with team members to maintain assessment quality
· Supporting continuous improvement of assessment processes
· Monitoring candidate experience and assessment effectiveness
What you’ll be responsible for
· Ensuring candidates meet defined assessment standards
· Making objective, evidence-based hiring recommendations
· Maintaining high levels of accuracy and data integrity
· Supporting fair and unbiased hiring decisions
· Contributing to efficient and high-quality recruitment outcomes
· Upholding compliance, governance, and confidentiality standards
What you’ll need
· Strong analytical and decision-making skills
· Ability to assess information and make evidence-based judgements
· Experience working with structured frameworks or assessment criteria
· Excellent written communication and report writing skills
· Strong attention to detail and accuracy
· Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
· Understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles
· Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
· Background in or connection with or to the Armed Forces (advantageous)
Desirable
Experience working within Defence, Government, or regulated environments
About the project & The Adecco Group
The Adecco Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is one of the world’s largest Human Resources providers and a Fortune Global 500 company.
The organisation is made up of three Global Business Units: Adecco, LHH, and Akkodis, delivering end-to-end HR solutions across a wide range of industries.
Adecco is proud to partner with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to deliver recruitment services for the UK’s Armed Forces. This joint Armed Forces Recruitment Service (AFRS), delivered alongside Serco and other partners, provides end-to-end support from candidate attraction through to assessment, onboarding, and Phase 1 training.
Important information
You must have the right to work in the UK
All offers are subject to background checks and compliance screening
Contracted hours will be 37.5 a week but requires flexibility to undertake occasional weekend work.
This role will be offered on a fixed term contract basis initially, please contact our Recruitment team at: [email protected] for more information.
Pay: £32,500.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Do you have full and unrestricted UK right to work?
- Have you lived and worked in the UK continuously for the last 5 years (excluding overseas service in the armed services)?
- Are you willing to undergo Security Clearance up to the required level (BPSS and Security Clearance)?
- Do you live in commutable distance (less than one hour's travel) from Solihull?
- Are you happy that this role requires for you to be office based in Solihull up to three days a week?
Work Location: In person
