Graduate Recruitment Advisor in Manchester

Responsibilities

• Working with the broader team to devise, develop and deliver a calendar of marketing and attraction activity (both virtual and in person) for early talent roles.
• Engaging with third-party partners to create content and activities to generate interest in early talent roles.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders on the use of social media and other online platforms to generate interest in early talent roles.
• Working with internal stakeholders such as the social media and PR teams to deliver timely content on the firm's platforms and through media.
• Owning and developing relationships with third party partners such as diversity organisations and branding agencies to ensure activity is delivered in a consistent, high quality, organised and thoughtful manner.
• Working with Graduate Recruitment Manager and Head of Early Talent on integrating the firm's EVP into attraction strategy including marketing collateral.
• Planning and delivery of graduate attraction and engagement events such as presentations and workshops both virtually and in person including law fairs and insight events.
• Working with diversity partners (e.g. 10k Foundation, Rare Recruitment and Aspiring Solicitors) to maximise value of partnership and generate a high number of applications from diverse candidates.
• Planning and delivery of assessment centres including facilitating on the day and management of candidate outcomes.
• Working with the Firm's compliance team to ensure compliance with UK immigration regulations by verifying and managing the right to work status for international students applying to graduate entry roles.
• Building and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders of the business to enable and facilitate the Graduate Recruitment strategy.
• Providing verbal feedback to applicants for the various early talent programmes both successful and unsuccessful.
• Managing candidates via application tracking system.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level standard and/or CIPD.

Relevant Experience

• Experience of working within the early talent market.
• Experience of working in a professional services environment (desirable).

Key Skills

• Proven project planning and management skills (management of projects from start to finish will be required).
• Experience of bulk recruitment.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of staff, including senior stakeholders, in a persuasive and credible manner.
• Ability to positively interact with candidates at marketing events and assessment centres.
• Comfortable making presentations to candidate groups and senior colleagues.
• Excellent listening and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of diversity and inclusion challenges within early talent market, comfortable discussing and challenging in sensitive situations.
• Highly organised and skilled at prioritising, managing timelines and keeping stakeholders updated. Comfortable with mixed workload of annual cycle and project work.
• Knowledge of UK early talent market desirable.

Personal Qualities / Behaviours

• Professional, approachable, calm, resilient.
• A self-starter who can work effectively with minimal supervision, but also enjoys being part of a high-performing team.
• Committed to high standards.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• First rate communication skills, including listening and adapting approach to others.
• Able to deal with different cultures and perspectives.
• Willingness to work flexibly as required by the job role.

At Pinsent Mason's we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or another characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.