Early Careers Lead

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