Recruitment Assistant in Surrey

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 and 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 issuance 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.

Opportunity

• Pensions Scheme (5% employer contribution).
• Private medical insurance.
• Permanent health insurance.
• Life assurance.
• Receive either the sum of £750 per annum as a travel allowance or reimbursement of car parking expenses via a pay as you go card at a local car park (likely to be Farnham Road car park).
• Travel – option to apply for an interest free loan for a season ticket or parking permit.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay (after sufficient service).
• Critical illness insurance.
• Cycle to work schemes.
• Give as you earn.
• Discounted gym memberships and shopping.
• Profit share and discretionary bonus schemes.
• Diversity.