About the Opportunity;
Based Leeds City Centre- Hybrid working available.
My client is a well-established, growing Legal business that offers a range of niche legal services across the UK. Due to continuous growth across the business, my client is looking to recruit an experienced recruiter support the HR team and assist in the delivery of recruitment for the business across all roles and geographical locations in the UK. Primary responsibilities include advertising vacancies, short-listing candidates, and arranging assessments and interviews for new and replacement positions, in addition to supporting the HR Manager with Vacation Scheme and Trainee Solicitor recruitment. This is an exciting, newly created role which offers a fantastic career opportunity for the right candidate to add value and be part of re shaping the recruitment function.
Key Responsibilities Include;
- Working alongside a well established, supportive HR team, this role will take a lead and drive all recruitment duties across the business whilst looking at continuous improvement initiatives.
- Take a ownership of all graduate scheme/ assessment centres whilst continuously looking at creative ways to improve.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business and support them with end to end recruitment needs through to offer stage.
- Establish candidate talent pools and drive networking opportunities to attract candidates e.g. Career fairs/ Networking events.
- Develop HR systems for recruitment, ensuring applications are accurately recorded and managed appropriately.
- Maintain and update the vacancy and LinkedIn page in collaboration with the Business Development/Marketing Team.
- Ensure vacancies are shared and published internally, dealing with internal applications, and liaising with the HR team where necessary.
- Encourage employee referrals across the business, logging any referral bonuses due.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external recruitment agencies, agreeing terms, briefing them on the business and employee benefits.
- Coordinate assessments and tests for candidates where appropriate.
- Arrange interviews for candidates, feedback calls and provide an exceptional candidate experience whilst updating the team as to recruitment progress for each role accordingly.
- Work closely and in collaboration with the Marketing team and the HR Manager to produce an annual recruitment strategy including social media posts and insight articles such as ‘A Day in the Life of a Trainee,' ensuring that external media is kept up to date.
The ideal candidate with be able to demonstrate;
The ideal candidate with be able to demonstrate;
- At least three years' experience in a recruitment/resourcing role focused on hiring legal or professional services candidates.
- Competent in all MSOffice applications.
- Excellent administration and organisational skills, as well as attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and confident with dealing with people at all levels.
- Excellent time management skills, ability to multi-task, able to work under pressure.
- Ability to ‘sell' and build relationships with individuals and partner organisations quickly.
- Self-motivated, self-starter with an enthusiastic ‘can-do' attitude.
- Creative mindset, with a keen eye for opportunities for improvement.
- Experience dealing with graduate schemes and/or assessment centres would be ideal but not essential.
- Experience in employer market proposition ad employer branding would also be advantageous.