Early Careers Lead
Bristol (Hybrid)
£45k p.a
Our client, an independent leading provider of audit, accountancy, tax, and advisory services, has an exciting opportunity for an Early Careers Lead to join their team!
The role:
This is a wide-ranging role working in a recruitment team of 3 that is influential and instrumental in supporting the firm to hire great talent across a range of our apprenticeship, graduate, placement and experienced hires positions.
- 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
- 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 into the firm
- 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 the right attraction and selection methods are in place to ensure to recruit the best talent
- Researching and working with the wider team to implement innovative ways to engage with target audiences
- Fully engaging with Workday and optimising this leading technology to keep pace with market changes
- Supporting key lateral hires working with the wider recruitment team
Key skills/ experience:
- 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
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus Christmas off
- A contributory Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Simply Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services
- Perkbox discounts and rewards platform with over 4,000 perks and discounts
- Yulife employee wellbeing app
- Social events with active social committees that plan internal and external events
- Numerous opportunities for development