Job Description
A leading international law firm has a unique opportunity for an experienced Early Careers Advisor to join their team. Working with the wider HR team and developing relationships with partners and colleagues across the business, you will primarily be responsible for:
Graduate recruitment:
- Supporting on the recruitment of all graduate and school leaver opportunities including trainee solicitors, solicitor apprentices, scholars, placement schemes and open days.
- Delivering sessions for open days, insight sessions, skills workshops and placement schemes and participating in law fairs.
- Leading on all media and communications to students.
- Managing a range of the firm’s future talent social impact programmes, including Bright Sparks work experience.
- First stage application screening, first stage interviews and participating as an assessor in assessment centres.
Graduate Development:
- Managing new joiner processes, certificates of sponsorship applications and inductions.
- Providing generalist HR support managing the employee lifecycle of the future talent including straightforward employee relations issues (such as sickness or attendance) and assisting with regular 1:1 catch ups.
- Responsibility for seat change process, co-ordinating logistics for international and client secondments and visa processes.
- Co-ordination and administration of NQ and admission process.
The successful applicant will have gained the following key skills:
- Relevant experience within graduate recruitment, ideally within the legal sector.
- Flexible approach and proactive manner to all works and tasks
- Ability to work as part of a team and across all levels at the firm, approachable and able to build rapport quickly.
- Excellent organisational skills, planning and prioritisation, and time management of self and others.
- Commercial understanding and approach.
Equal Opportunities
As a responsible business, it is important that we represent the diversity of our people, our clients and our communities. We believe that the firms that thrive are those with the most diverse team; that's why we work so hard to source the best talent from the broadest pool possible. As an equal opportunities employer we strive to accommodate anyone who may have specific needs. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.