Early Careers Recruiter

WTW; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

WTW is seeking a proactive Early Careers Recruiter to manage the full lifecycle of recruitment for graduate, apprentice and intern programmes across multiple locations. You will run campus events, virtual sessions and collaborate with Employer Brand to attract top talent.

You will screen, assess, and coordinate hires, organise assessment centres, and extend offers while ensuring a seamless candidate experience and strong stakeholder communications. Travel to campuses will be required.

Qualifications

• Experience managing full life cycle recruitment in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to handle high-volume processes concurrently.
• Excellent stakeholder relationship management and presentation skills.
• Data-driven mindset with ability to create insights from recruitment data.
• Proven experience recruiting across campuses and schools; travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Drive a defined early careers recruitment strategy across multiple locations.
• Attract candidates through virtual and campus events; collaborate with Employer Brand.
• Screen applications, coordinate assessments, and extend offers to final candidates.
• Organise and run assessment centres; train assessors and brief teams.
• Support onboarding, reporting, and stakeholder communications to ensure a smooth candidate experience.
• Convert interns to hires and lead candidate communications from first click to day one.

Skills

Full life cycle recruitment

High volume recruiting

Stakeholder management

Strong communication skills

Data-driven approach

Campus/school recruitment travel

Tools

MS Office (Word, PPT, Excel)

ATS experience

HireVue

ORC

Job description

Description

At WTW, we help the world's biggest organisations make forward-thinking choices about their people, their investments and the risks they face. Our expertise and advice make them stronger and more successful. We also support them to improve their people's health, skills and financial wellbeing. You'll be part of this impact, right from the start.

The Global Early Careers Team is responsible for the attraction, selection, assessment and engagement of early careers candidates on to our structured insight, apprentice, intern and Graduate programmes. We are driven by our commitment to inspire, engage and nurture the next generation of talent as they set out on their career paths.

The Role

You will be responsible for managing and executing a defined recruitment strategy and driving the effective and timely delivery of early careers recruitment activities for several business areas across multiple locations. The key areas of responsibility include:

Candidate Attraction

• Attending and delivering virtual events as well as events on campus, in schools and WTW offices to a variety of audiences from year 12 and 13 students, to undergraduates and their influencers (careers advisors, teachers, faculty leads and parents/carers) - travel outside of your base location will be required to facilitate this
• Partnering with the Employer Brand team and the business on the creation of assets for use on social media

Candidate Screening / Assessment / Management

• Proactive management of the entire early careers' lifecycle - candidate pipelines, screening of applications, HireVue videos and invitation of high calibre, diverse candidates to assessment centres
• Organisation of assessment centres (agreeing dates, agenda, training assessors, hosting candidate drop-in sessions, briefing the team on TopScore set up etc) with the support of recruitment coordinators
• Leading assessment centre wash ups, extending verbal and written offers to successful candidates, providing feedback to unsuccessful ones
• Collaboration with other teams across the business to ensure that trackers and admin are up to date and accurate in real time so that the candidate experience is seamless, onboarding smooth and operational reporting accurate
• Intern conversions - coaching successful interns through the conversion process and extending offers
• Candidate communications - throughout the lifecycle from first click to first day

Candidate Experience / Engagement

• From first click to first day, the recruiter is responsible for early identification of talent, engaging with and nurturing high calibre candidates - from providing coaching sessions to hosting webinars on the application process and life at WTW - each candidate receives a white glove service aimed at helping them to experience our culture before they even join.
• Assisting with the set up and delivery of two insight programmes; Step up with WTW and Level up with WTW and Day One Induction for all new starters.

Stakeholder Management

• Proactive stakeholder management is key. Establishing yourself as an expert in all things early careers is essential.
• Managing weekly/fortnightly data driven operational meetings with stakeholders to provide clear and accurate information. Ability to craft presentation decks.
• Requesting support throughout the process in a timely manner to ensure that you are able to provide the very best in candidate management and experience.
• Contributing to quarterly review meetings; including new season kick off, mid points and season wash ups.

Team Collaboration

• Team collaboration is key within Early Careers team, but also with the many other teams that support us to be able to deliver an excellent candidate experience.
• Collaboration amongst recruiters in the team to establish the most efficient ways of working, ensuring that the right work is in the right location.
• Fostering positive relationships with colleagues to ensure everyone understands their role and its importance.
• Contributing to global project workstreams with colleagues from across the whole early careers team.

Qualifications

What you'll bring

• Proven track record of full life cycle, high volume early carers recruiting within a fast-paced recruitment environment
• Ability to manage multiple processes simultaneously
• Exceptional stakeholder relationship skills: ability to develop strong relationships quickly and maximise resources effectively to achieve goals
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Data driven approach to recruitment
• Proven success effectively working in a fast paced, high-pressure environment
• Self-sufficient and able to work independently, whilst remaining a team player
• Strong organisational abilities and flexibility to work in a performance driven environment managing multiple deliverables
• Ability to travel to various campuses/school and attend events
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, PPT, Excel) and ATS experience is a must, exposure to HireVue and ORC are a plus
• Curious and willing to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools responsibly to improve personal productivity, organisation, research and work quality.

Work Style

We operate a hybrid working environment (i.e. a mixture of working in the office and at home) and empower the team to choose their anchor days, however regular travel to the London office will be required (min one day each week).

What we offer

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally.

• 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge.
• private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments.
• defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.
• hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community.
• On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We're committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants.