Recruitment Officer

Role: Recruitment Officer Up tp £35,000 Birmingham City Centre (hybrid working) 6 month fixed term contract

Working with the Graduate Recruitment Manager and wider Graduate Recruitment team, which consists of two other Graduate Recruitment Officers and a Graduate Recruitment Assistant, to deliver a highly competitive and sophisticated graduate attraction and recruitment strategy

Specific responsibilities and duties include:

• With the assistance of the Graduate Recruitment Assistant, co-ordinating and acting as key firm brand ambassador and contact point for universities, candidates and other third parties
• Delivery of virtual and on-campus events lead on the delivery of the firm's vacation placement programme
• Lead on the delivery of the firms' Insight Programmes / Open Days
• Recruitment contact and liaison for law faculty contacts, career services and student societies in connection with firm events and programmes
• Screening and shortlisting of candidates for assessment centres for all programmes delivered by the wider Early Talent team including vacation placement, training contracts and work experience
• Building and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders of the business to enable and facilitate the Graduate Recruitment attraction and recruitment strategy
• Involvement in the creation, development and delivery of graduate recruitment diversity and inclusion strategies and events
• Building and maintaining relationships with a range of candidates across the recruitment process from application to offer and beyond
• Providing verbal feedback to applicants for the various early talent programmes both successful and unsuccessful
• Involved in the delivery of the annual assessment centres for all early talent opportunities
• Working with the wider team and colleagues across business to provide new social media content and using social media in the attraction, recruitment and continued engagement of candidates
• Managing candidates via application tracking system

Relevant Experience

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

Key Skills needed for the Recruitment Officer:

• Proven project planning and management skills (management of projects from start to finish will be required)
• Recruitment experience
• Experience of dealing with all levels of staff, including senior stakeholders, in a persuasive and credible manner
• Ability to interact with candidates at marketing events and assessments and build relationships
• Comfortable making presentations to candidate groups and senior colleagues (thinking of supervisor training etc.)
• Excellent listening and problem solving skills
• Solid understanding and experience of using social media in marketing, recruitment and selection
• Highly organised and skilled in prioritising