Early Careers Recruitment Lead

Your new company
This is an opportunity to join a well-established organisation which is a market leader in their field. This professional service business prides itself on how they treat their employees - offering a supportive workplace that genuinely cares about your wellbeing and empowers you to grow at every opportunity. This business is Great Place to Work certified, and their apprenticeship programme was ranked in the Top 100 Employer Apprenticeship List for 2024.
Your new role
This role is part of the wider Talent Acquisition and in turn the HR teams. In this role, you will focus on hiring the best talent in the market on to the apprenticeship program by leading early careers recruitment across all of our offices. Working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager you will look at how this successful organisation attracts, selects, and recruits in the market by utilising the best tools and techniques to ensure the firm is recruiting the right people to support us on our growth journey. This is a great opportunity to put your stamp on the role at a time when the organisation is going through a significant period of transformation.Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Leading the end-to-end recruitment of graduate, apprentice and placement trainees, reviewing CVs, test results, video interviews and shortlisting all suitable trainee applicants for assessment centres this includes:
• Organising and facilitating assessment centres with the support of the Resourcing Administrator, including running feedback sessions and wash-ups
• Organising and attending various graduate and school career fairs and events, building good relationships with schools and universities
• Coordinating business representatives to support in the attendance of school and university events
• Overseeing the trainee onboarding process and induction process working with the L&D Leads, keeping incoming trainees engaged with the business ahead of their start dates and ensuring a successful introduction
• Providing regular updates and reporting on the progress of trainee resourcing to hiring managers, the Talent Acquisition Manager, and other key stakeholders, providing supporting management information (MI)
• Working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager to ensure we have the right attraction and selection methods in place to ensure we recruit the best possible talent in the market
• Researching and working with the wider team to implement innovative ways to engage with our target audiences
• Fully engaging with Workday and ensuring we're optimising this leading technology to keep pace with market changes
• Supporting key lateral hires working with the wider recruitment team
• Supporting the wider People Team

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of early careers/future talent/volume recruitment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills that enable you to offer an excellent client service to hiring Managers & candidates
• Good IT skills and be particularly comfortable working with MS Word and Excel, having applicant tracking systems (ATS) experience particularly with Workday would be an advantage
• A 'can do' attitude with the aptitude to deal with a high volume of candidate applications and requests
• Excellent organisational skills with good attention to detail
• You'll also be driven to achieve and curious around process improvement

What you'll get in return

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus Christmas off!
• Hybrid working
• A contributory Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services
• Discounts and rewards platform with over 4,000 perks and discounts
• Employee wellbeing app
• Social events with active social committees
• Numerous opportunities for development

What you need to do now


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