Senior Early Careers Advisor

Senior Early Careers Advisor

Reporting to the head of recruitment the senior early careers advisor is a pivotal role ensuring the quality of the firm's talent pipeline and to shape and truly take ownership of the firms budding early careers programme, offering a fantastic route of progression and professional development for the successful candidate.

The candidates' key responsibilities Include:

• Take ownership of the Solicitor Apprenticeship and Trainee recruitment and selection programmes in addition to social media campaign.
• Coordinate the recruitment and selection process including sifting applications, designing, arranging, and attending assessment days, attending interviews, drafting offer correspondence, and presenting offers and feedback to candidates.
• Manage relationships with external legal publications to aid candidate attraction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the internal stakeholders involved in the trainee recruitment schemes.
• Take an active role in engagement with the firm's paralegals / legal administrators to encourage progression
• Serve as a first point of contact for current and future cohorts of apprentices and trainees.
• Integral role in seat rotations and qualification processes in addition to facilitating the appraisal process and progress meetings.
• Ensure regular liaison with partnered universities
• Continue to develop and implement changes or improvements to the apprenticeship scheme including the creation of course content and training initiatives.
• Assist the Senior Recruitment Manager in the review and maintenance of budgets for early careers initiatives

An ideal candidate will possess many of the following skills and attributes:

• Experience within early careers, ideally within a law firm but other professional services will also be considered.
• A passion for and demonstrable experience in creating / transforming / implementing early careers programmes in both the apprentice and graduate space.
• An understanding of the SQE on the legal industry.
• A team player with the ability to forge strong relationships across the business and specifically with stakeholders involved in the early careers programme.
• A professional, willing and 'can do' attitude.
• A flexible approach to office based and hybrid working; recognising that at cyclical peak times there may be a need to be physically present in the office up to 5 days per week
• Highly accurate and with a keen attention to detail in all areas of work
• A lateral thinker, who can suggest new ideas
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.