Imagine joining the world's largest particle physics research laboratory. Imagine being part of an innovative, cutting-edge recruitment team, contributing your skills and experience to recruit excellence in all the fields needed for the success of the Organization. Are you ready for a challenge like nowhere else on earth? Join CERN. Take part!

As a Recruitment & Sourcing Specialist you will join CERN's in-house recruitment team, you will take responsibility for handling recruitment processes A-Z in close collaboration with HR Advisers/Partners and Hiring Managers (departmental clients). This role will require excellent interpersonal communication, as well as numerical and analytical skills. Success will be based upon establishing a true partnership with the clients to anticipate and deliver, based upon an accurate understanding of their needs. You will also be involved in all the projects associated with the recruitment activity. This is a unique development opportunity where learning is the key focus for this fellowship, with both on-the-job training and opportunities to attend conferences where applicable.

If you're qualified to Master level in HR, and have experience of operational recruitment and use of associated tools and sourcing techniques, this could be your next professional move.

Fellowship Programmes

Have you recently graduated from university or an advanced technical institute? Are you interested in working for one or two years in an international environment at the forefront of research? In which case, you may be interested in CERN's Fellowship Programme. Within the Fellowship Programme, we have integrated a Graduate Engineering Training (GET) scheme for engineering graduates who are looking for professional experience in a wide range of engineering and technical fields. Candidates should apply through the standard Fellowship programme and will be automatically considered by a panel of CERN experts for a position within the scheme.

CERN is proud to be involved in COFUND a European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Sk³odowska-Curie Action to stimulate mobility and career development through fellowship programmes. Contract negotiations have been successfully completed with the European Commission and we are offering a limited number of 3-year Fellowships to top-ranked Senior Fellows through the COFUND programme from the November 2015 until the May 2017 committees. A feature of the COFUND programme is the possibility to spend up to 12 months of the Fellow contract at another institute, provided that the work still corresponds to the original project at CERN.

Role Description

The Fellowship Programme awards approximately 200 Fellowships per year. Around half are for research work (experimental or theoretical physics) under a Senior Fellowship and half are for advanced development work and related research in a broad range of applied science, computing and engineering either under a Junior or a Senior Fellowship depending on the qualifications and experience of the individual. Fellowships are intended for recent graduates from university or higher technical institutes, or university postgraduates who want to work in a research group. Research fellows in experimental or theoretical physics normally have terminated their studies for a doctorate (PhD or equivalent) while Fellowships in applied science, computing and engineering are open to recent graduates at Bachelor level and above. Fellowships are normally granted for two years initially, while extensions for part or all of a third year are granted only in exceptional circumstances.

After having become familiar with the activities of the Laboratory, Fellows are encouraged to contribute to bridging the gap between scientists and the general public by serving as CERN Guides typically 2 hours per month.