HR Junior Intern

Junior HR Assistant
HR Operations

The HR Operations Department is in charge of human resources, recruiting, training and development, benefits, finance, administration, culture building and the day to day operation at Cocoon Networks. Our people are our greatest asset here, and it’s important that they get looked after properly.

The Junior HR Assistant helps to ensure effective management of every employee. You can expect a wide variety of duties with insights into all aspects of this role and our business. You will get the chance to talk to our employees, candidates, and service providers. We also appreciate to hear your ideas. You will take part in recruitment events, social activities and discover the amazing opportunities Cocoon Networks can offer.

You main responsibilities are focused on helping the line manager accomplish HR-related tasks, including documenting, recruiting, recording absences, delivering performance reports and compiling compensation and benefits information.

Your day-to-day work would include:

• Assisting in developing recruitment strategies
• Assisting in organising recruitment events
• Assisting in delivering employee perks and recognition, collecting data, gathering information on new applicants, contacting references.
• Assisting in our staff training programme, scheduling social office activities, arranging travel
• Providing compliance and administrative support to the HR team
• Proofreading HR documents including audits, marketing information and handbooks
• Issuing job advertisements, keeping maintenance records
• Managing pre-employment and onboard processes
• Tracking cost and effectiveness of media outlets for job postings
• Administrative duties such as updating personnel records, delivering pay reviews etc.

You will be mainly office-based, although you may have to travel with the team to other cities within the UK for recruitment events

We’re expecting you to:

• Enjoy working with people
• Be patient, tactful, diplomatic and approachable
• Have good commercial awareness
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
• Be confident about gathering facts and statistics
• Respect the importance of confidentiality, as you will be dealing with employees’ personal details
• Have good organisational and problem-solving skills
• Be able to work as part of an international team and enjoy working cross-culturally
• Be able to work accurately, with excellent attention to detail
• Be able to use databases, spreadsheets, word processing and accounts packages
• Mandarin is not essential but preferred
• Bachelor’s degree of 2:1 or above

Your career path and how you benefit from the internship:

You can develop a career as a generalist or specialist in the areas of corporate human resources and operations, focusing on people resourcing, learning and development or employee relations. We believe a business is only as good as its people and know the great difference our HR team makes to our company’s culture and profit.