Recruitment Advisor

Are you passionate about delivering a great recruitment experience? We're seeking a Recruitment Advisor to join our Bristol-based Recruitment team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. In this hybrid role, you'll manage end-to-end recruitment across a variety of Business Services vacancies, working closely with stakeholders and candidates to ensure a seamless and engaging hiring process.

Your Role

• Deliver a high quality end to end recruitment and assessment service to our highly regarded Business Services teams against a set of agreed KPIs (for example direct sourcing, cost and time to hire).
• Develop tailored and appropriate sourcing strategies with a focus on direct approaches to identify key talent for the firm covering both permanent and interim solutions.
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers including Business Services senior managers and directors, advising stakeholders on the best recruitment and attraction methods and keep them regularly updated on progress.
• Apply recruitment expertise to help key stakeholders address and respond to challenges such as project resourcing, niche skills and knowledge requirements, team changes and capability or capacity needs.
• Support and advise the business on appropriate assessment processes, coaching on interview and selection best practice where needed.
• Manage and review an agency roster to ensure the best selection of candidates, building strong but efficient relationships with agencies.
• Work with others in Recruitment and HR teams to ensure new hires experience a smooth, seamless on-boarding experience while joining TLT.
• Support, contribute to and/or lead the delivery of events and campaigns and projects (such as brand, candidate experience, legal and regulatory change) being run within the Recruitment team and cover a variety of other vacancy portfolios if needed.

Your Skills and Experience

• A proven track record recruiting across a wide range of vacancies within a corporate, technical, or business support environment, preferably across multiple sites and disciplines.
• Highly organised, with the ability to plan, manage and deliver the full recruitment life-cycle for multiple vacancies – from taking a brief to on-boarding.
• Experience of working in-house would be advantageous in this role; you must be able to demonstrate a good understanding of working effectively with senior stakeholders and strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experienced at sourcing and approaching suitably qualified candidates and closing offers in a highly competitive market.
• Some experience of executive search methods would be advantageous for senior management vacancies.
• Be able to demonstrate high performance against KPIs in previous recruitment roles.
• Experienced in the use of an ATS to manage vacancies and candidates, with a very strong focus on data quality and accuracy.
• Good understanding of relevant employment, data protection, Professional and Regulatory rules, laws or regulations which are relevant to the recruiting of employees to a Legal Firm.

Your Team

The HR team consists of the HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment and Organisational Development, with specialists in Learning and Development, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing and Sustainability. Making sure everyone thrives during their time at TLT is the focus of our HR team’s work every day. We provide strategic and operational support to our leaders and teams and our HR specialists make sure our people are skilled, creative, valued, motivated, flexible and committed, working in a culture that enables them to perform at their very best.

The recruitment team works with the other HR functions to deliver a proactive and efficient HR service across a range of vacancies including Partner, Fee Earner, Legal Support and Business Services on a permanent and interim basis, business services and early careers. The team reports through the Head of Recruitment to the HR Director. Working closely with the relevant HRBP, the post holder will be responsible for the entire recruitment lifecycle for a portfolio of vacancies within Business Services.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people. We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLTsolicitors.com.