Early Careers & Emerging Talent Advisor

If you are passionate about empowering and guiding the next generation of talent and are looking to take ownership managing, enhancing and driving an Early Careers and Emerging Talent offering, then this role could be the perfect next step in your career.

The firm have 10 offices across the UK are looking to continue building their HR team with an experienced Early Careers & Emerging Talent Advisor. This role can sit in either Cardiff, Worcester, Cheltenham or Birmingham and is hybrid.

The Early Careers Advisor role plays a crucial part in guiding and supporting the firm’s trainees as they embark on their professional journey. This role is responsible for providing career advice, coordinating training sessions, and facilitating seat rotation placements along with designing and implementing assessments centres and development events. This role will lead on the trainee lifecycle process from attraction, recruitment, performance management and qualification in order to support the strategic direction of our growing, energetic firm.

 Responsibilities: 

• Managing seat preferences and placements and being the first point of contact
• Leading in all trainee recruitment aspects – screening candidates, organising assessment days and interviews, providing feedback and facilitation of the deliberation committee assuring we award trainee contracts to the best candidates
• Overseeing the Early Careers website and attending marketing events including careers fairs, university presentations, virtual events, open days and arranging for representatives to attend
• Supporting in the preparation of trainee placement reports throughout the year and other ad hoc projects
• Develop the Vacation Scheme/Summer Internship
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with schools, outreach providers and other external providers as appropriate
• Liaise regularly with key stakeholders to ensure the apprenticeship plan is delivering for both the apprentices and the departments they sit in

Experience

• To be successful in this role you will ideally have previous experience of graduate recruitment and/or trainee development, preferably within a Professional Services or Legal firm setting
• To have an understanding of the SQE and hiring apprenticeships but this is not essential
• Experienced in building relationships with third party suppliers, schools, outreach providers
• Possess strong stakeholder management, at all levels
• You will be confident, self-motivated and have proven organisational skills

 In return

• Salary £28,000 – £31,000 dependant on your experience
• Hybrid working
• Professional career development support
• Pension Scheme
• Support staff bonus scheme
• 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Many more attractive benefits