Human Resources Industrial Placement Summer Internship Programme 2025 London

We are looking for an eager Early Careers Recruitment Specialist to join our team on a 9 - 11 month Industrial Placement in August 2025!

Within this role, you will learn to own end-to end campus recruiting responsibilities. This will include managing stakeholder relationships and building out effective strategies. This is an exciting opportunity to gain direct exposure to clients and leaders across the Investment Bank. Some travel will be required for this role.

To be successful as an Early Careers Recruitment Specialist, you should be in your penultimate year and possess:

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Willingness and desire to travel
• Developed verbal, written and group communication and presenting skills
• Creative thinker with experience improving the quality of the candidate experience
• Willingness to work in a dynamic environment
• Ability to be proactive and take initiative
• Ability to prioritise tasks and multi-task

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to think quickly to resolve real time challenges
• Ability to escalate quickly and effectively
• Organizational skills and ability to multitask
• Attention to detail

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in financial services
• Eagerness to succeed
• Intellectual curiosity

Key Accountabilities

• Execute on aligned regional candidate acquisition activity for varying aligned Programmatic channels; including but not limited to Interns, Graduate and Apprentices specifically as it relates to our events and assessment strategies
• Partner with the business and work in conjunction with Programmatic Planning teams, agree and attend a calendar of events associated with attraction to all Programmatic channels including campus, recruitment events and school events
• Execute on attraction and assessment efforts that are in line with both firm goals and individual pathway goals
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver on agreed recruitment strategy and engage them in our efforts
• Deliver an effective candidate attraction strategy derived from data analysis and a deep knowledge of universities and organizations
• Execute assessment processes that will achieve firm goals while allowing for all Programmatic channels to effectively source for individualized programming

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To support the day-to-day operations of the human resources division through Provision of insights and expertise that help more senior colleagues make informed decisions. Also support the development of new products and services in addition to identification of new market opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Execution of small research projects to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with relevant leaders to implement research findings.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Participation in the identification of opportunities, development of business cases and the deployment and launch of new products and services for human resources.
• Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions, and resolution of customer complaints.
• Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making for human resources.
• Development of HR insights, the colleague journeys the function is responsible for, and HR services and measures whilst building an understanding of Barclays and its businesses.

Analyst Expectations

• To meet the needs of stakeholders/ customers through specialist advice and support
• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard which will impact both the role itself and surrounding roles.
• Likely to have responsibility for specific processes within a team
• They may lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. They supervise a team, allocate work requirements and coordinate team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they manage own workload, take responsibility for the implementation of systems and processes within own work area and participate on projects broader than direct team.
• Execute work requirements as identified in processes and procedures, collaborating with and impacting on the work of closely related teams.
• Check work of colleagues within team to meet internal and stakeholder requirements.
• Provide specialist advice and support pertaining to own work area.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how all teams in area contribute to the objectives of the broader sub-function, delivering impact on the work of collaborating teams.
• Continually develop awareness of the underlying principles and concepts on which the work within the area of responsibility is based, building upon administrative / operational expertise.
• Make judgements based on practise and previous experience.
• Assess the validity and applicability of previous or similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances that are not covered by procedures.
• Communicate sensitive or difficult information to customers in areas related specifically to customer advice or day to day administrative requirements.
• Build relationships with stakeholders/ customers to identify and address their needs.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.