Early Careers Assistant in Liverpool

Hours : Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week)

Happy to talk flexible working

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team: HR and Development

Location: Liverpool

Role overview

Introduction to the role:

Reporting to the Early Careers Manager, you will primarily provide end to end graduate and apprentice recruitment for the firm. You will support activity relating to existing trainees and apprentices and play an active part in recruiting the future pipeline of trainee solicitors and apprentices both law and non-law. You will also provide assistance to our Recruitment team when needed, to support tasks such as shortlisting, advertising and arranging interviews.

Introduction to the team:

You will be part of a wider HR & Development team that services the firm across areas such as HR operations, employee relations, early careers, learning & development, HR systems, diversity & inclusion, talent & development and reward. Led by Chief People Officer, Carolyn Morgan, the team is currently made up of 30 people, who strive to deliver a seamless service to all Partners and employees.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the full recruitment lifecycle across all UK offices for both early careers and general recruitment, including:
  • Screening and shortlisting candidates
  • Coordinating interviews and assessment days and managing candidate communications
  • Collecting vacancy briefs from hiring teams
  • Provide guidance on the recruitment process and sourcing strategies
  • Posting vacancies via our recruitment systems
  • Creating engaging LinkedIn posts
  • Managing the offer process and providing a seamless service for candidates through to onboarding
• Arrange and co-ordinate candidate interviews and assessment days
• Co-ordinate on-boarding processes for early careers recruits including apprentices and trainees
• Play an active role in organising and delivering insight days and open evenings
• Design and deliver presentations
• First point of contact for early careers queries
• Support in promoting early talent activity via LinkedIn and graduate social media channels
• Support in delivering group exercises and interviews
• Send out guidelines and packs to stakeholders involved in assessment days and interview processes
• Contributing innovative ways of assessing candidates
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship development
• Introduce innovative ways of engaging with our future talent pipeline
• Assist with writing descriptions for upcoming events and promoting the firm via campus engagement
• Involvement in Schools Outreach Programme, supporting mock interviews and careers presentations
• Involvement in any ad-hoc projects as required
• Dealing with general queries to early careers mailboxes
• Supporting the wider HR team general queries and ad-hoc tasks when required
• Work to best practice at all times

What are we looking for:

• Strong administration and communication skills
• Excellent competence in Microsoft Office
• Ability to work as part of a wider HR team, maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive issues

It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:

• Experience in coordinating assessment days and recruitment campaigns
• Ability to prioritise a busy workload ensuring any deadlines are met
• Proactive and professional approach to work
• Demonstrable experience building strong working relationships both internally and externally
• Flexibility in approach
• Keen to learn and enhance knowledge as part of your role
• Flexibility to work and travel outside of normal working hours when required to support the delivery of training and early careers recruitment activity at different offices.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.