Early Careers & Campus Recruiter - HSBC

AMS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model: Birmingham 3 days/week

Job summary

AMS is seeking an Early Careers & Campus Recruiter for a 12-month FTC onsite in Birmingham. You will manage end-to-end recruitment for Work Experience, T-levels, and Apprenticeships, delivering both attraction and selection activities and owning a key talent project.

You should have proven experience in Early Careers recruitment, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to optimise processes while ensuring exceptional candidate experience across multiple geographies.

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Careers (Apprenticeship) hiring is preferred.
• Ability to manage high-volume, fast-paced recruitment processes.
• Familiarity with work experience, T-levels and apprenticeship hiring practices (assessment, interviews).
• Strong verbal and written communication across geographies and seniority levels.
• Capability to analyse and report on data related to recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Own a key project within Work Experience, T-level or Apprenticeship hiring.
• Deliver high-quality recruitment activity in a matrixed, regulated environment.
• Improve time-to-hire and candidate experience through process optimisations.
• Facilitate virtual and in-person selection processes and assessor training.
• Create and deliver attraction activities to attract early talent at scale.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Operational ability

Work Experience recruitment

Communication skills

Data utilisation

Job description

This is 12 months FTC with an onsite requirement in Birmingham: 3 days/week.

About Us:

Global, inclusive and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent connects across cultures and backgrounds to shape the future of work.

We work with leading organisations to design and deliver talent strategies that bring together people, process, data and technology, helping millions of people find meaningful work every year. Our diverse, connected community collaborates to create results for clients and opportunities for our people to learn, grow and make an impact.

At AMS, we look for people who bring more than experience, and we welcome different perspectives and ways of thinking.

https://www.weareams.com/

The Role:

Would you like to be an Early Careers & Campus Recruiter supporting one of our Financial Services clients?

If you have a passion for doing things better - for both your clients and your career - bring it to AMS and unleash your potential.

Bring your curiosity and questions, and together we’ll discover solutions that make the career dreams of our candidates a reality. Bring your true self and your ideas to the table, there's always room for you and we’re always listening.

What does a “day in the life” of my new team look like?

You’ll work as part of the wider Emerging Talent team responsible for Work Experience, T-level, Apprentice, Intern, Industrial Placement and Graduate hiring. Your role will be working in a “360” capacity delivering both attraction and selection activity, alongside being responsible for a key project related to Emerging Talent hiring, expected to be within (but not limited to) Work Experience, T-level and Apprenticeship hiring.

Managing full life-cycle recruitment for vacancies, you could be supporting Work Experience, T-levels, Foundation/Modern Apprenticeship or Degree Apprenticeship hiring at different parts of the year, alongside delivering a suite of recruitment and non-recruitment attraction activity directly to potential applicants.

Exceptional candidate experience, decreasing time-to-hire, and ensuring a best-in‑class quality of delivery are central to the aspirations of the team. With a distinct focus on emphasising the activity which really helps support strategic objectives and skills acquisition, your activity will directly tie into helping us achieve those objectives.

This role is best suited for someone with Early Careers, or Emerging Talent, recruitment experience looking to take on more accountability, or project oversight, whilst working on behalf of a household client name.

Key Accountabilities:

• Key project ownership on one of: Work Experience, T-level, Foundation/ Modern Apprenticeship or Degree Apprenticeship hiring
• Risk stewardship – working in a globally matrixed and highly regulated environment
• Delivering best in class recruitment activity, spotting and suggesting key optimisations or angles for continuous improvement
• Facilitation of virtual and physical selection processes – facilitation, assessor upskilling, individual interview management through to running assessment centres
• Ensuring a constant spotlight on candidate experience – constantly looking to find ways to improve, educate, and accelerate processes
• Creation, innovation, and delivery of attraction activity – both physically and virtually

Skills & Requirements:

What do I need to succeed in this role?

Must haves:

• Recruitment Experience – ideally RPO/In-house with a focus on Early Careers (Apprenticeship) hiring
• Strong operational ability, able to operate in a high volume, fast‑paced & process-driven environment
• An understanding of Work Experience & Apprenticeships recruitment best practice tools and methodologies (e.g. psychometric testing, interview methodologies)
• Strong verbal and written communication, ideally evidenced by supporting teams across multiple geographies and seniority levels
• An understanding and ability to utilise Data

Nice to haves:

• Good Early Careers/Emerging Talent awareness (i.e. key trends, appetites, audience/demographic desires etc.)
• Presentation skills – verbal and in-person
• Data analysis skills – either formal qualifications or an ability to analyse/infer/report
• Apprenticeship Levy knowledge – varying apprenticeship qualifications, how a business can utilise the Levy, wider training provider awareness/knowledge
• Exposure to a highly matrixed global environment
• Experienced interviewer and interview/assessor trainer
• Diversity sourcing experience

Why AMS?:

At AMS, we come from every walk of life - and that’s what makes us unique. Our culture is open, inclusive and built on trust. We empower our people with the flexibility and autonomy to work in ways that bring out their best. We offer career opportunities in every direction you want to explore.

We offer

• Growth and development focused on your strengths
• The opportunity to develop a career within one of the world’s leading organisations specialising in talent and workforce solutions.
• A team that values being Passionate, Bold, and Authentic
• Supportive communities such as our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Volunteer day - you get one additional paid day off each year to volunteer for a cause that matters to you
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• Flexibility in how and where you work*
• Hybrid model: Birmingham 3 days/week

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our statement

We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage people with diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.