Early Careers & Campus Recruiter - Work Experience & Apprenticeships - HSBC

AMS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS is seeking an early careers recruitment specialist for a dynamic role in Birmingham. The successful candidate will manage the recruitment lifecycle for apprenticeships, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience. With a focus on continuous improvement, this is an opportunity to join a leading talent outsourcing company and make a real impact.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Challenging work environment

Qualifications

• Early Careers recruitment experience, particularly in Apprenticeship hiring.
• Ability to operate in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of recruitment best practices and tools.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of recruitment projects in Work Experience and Apprenticeship hiring.
• Delivering best-in-class recruitment activity and optimizations.
• Facilitating candidate selection processes and improving candidate experience.

Skills

Recruitment Experience

Operational Ability

Stakeholder Management

Data Understanding

Strong Communication

Job description

About Us

Career Level: 2

Location: UK, Birmingham client site x 3 days per week

Working hours/shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours/week

Employment Type: Permanent

Join our World of Talent.

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

https://www.weareams.com/

The Role

Working as part of the Early Careers team, you will be working in a "360" role delivering both attraction and selection activity, alongside being responsible for a key project related to Work Experience and Apprenticeship hiring. Managing full life-cycle recruitment for vacancies, you could be supporting Work Experience, Foundation 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 experience for all are central to the aspirations of the team, and your activity will directly tie into helping us achieve those objectives.

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

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing:

• Key project ownership on one of: Work Experience, Foundation 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 selection processes - assessor upskilling, challenging, 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
• Delivery of attraction activity - physically and virtually

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

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)
• Stakeholder management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication, ideally evidenced by supporting teams across multiple countries and seniority levels
• An understanding and utilisation of Data

Nice to haves:

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

Other

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It's our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

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

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. 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.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

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.