At a Glance
- Tasks: Support the recruitment process and ensure a smooth experience for candidates and hiring managers.
- Company: Join a professional services firm with a dynamic and collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, develop your skills, and grow your career in recruitment.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities to learn and improve processes.
- Why this job: Kickstart your career in recruitment and make a real impact on talent acquisition.
- Qualifications: Previous recruitment or office experience, strong organisational skills, and a proactive mindset.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 32000 £ per year.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone at an early stage in their career to gain hands-on recruitment experience within a professional services environment. The role will support the end-to-end recruitment process across Business and Legal teams, ensuring a positive and smooth candidate and hiring manager experience. Organisation, proactivity and confidence to follow up are key to success in this role.
Key focus areas
- Coordinate interviews end-to-end, including diary management, facility bookings and candidate communication.
- Monitor, manage and circulate applications across recruitment systems (including AllHires and LinkedIn), as well as those from direct applicants and speculative candidates.
- Support screening and review of applications/CVs, for Business Teams hires and other roles as required.
- Act as a first point of contact for the Resourcing inbox and manage recruitment calendars & folders.
- Support screening calls where appropriate.
- Maintain and update the recruitment tracker, providing regular updates for weekly HR meetings.
- Liaise with HRBPs to ensure timely updates and progress tracking to hiring managers and agencies.
- Assist with drafting and updating job descriptions, including supporting template improvements and employer branding content.
- Support the preparation and issuing of offer documentation via DocuSign.
- Set up and manage agency terms through DocuSign where required.
- Provide administrative support across recruitment projects and processes.
The ideal candidate will ideally have some experience in a junior recruitment role, or in an office-based or administrative role and will bring a proactive, hands-on approach to delivering high-quality work. They will be organised, dependable and responsive, with the confidence to manage multiple priorities and follow up to ensure progress. A collaborative mindset is essential, alongside the ability to adapt to different working styles and communicate effectively across the firm.
Qualifications and Experience
- Previous recruitment experience (this could be an entry-level role or similar), or office based work experience.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively.
- Comfortable learning new systems (experience of recruitment systems or LinkedIn Recruiter is beneficial but not essential).
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with a willingness to take ownership.
- Confident communicator, able to ask the right questions, follow up proactively and challenge where appropriate to ensure progress.
- Comfortable working at pace and managing competing priorities.
- Positive and flexible approach, with a willingness to support the wider HR team.
- Approachable and professional, with the confidence to build relationships across the firm.
- Inquisitive mindset with a desire to learn and improve processes.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage a high volume of activity.
