Early Careers Recruiter

PA Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm offers a unique opportunity for an Early Careers Recruitment role on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. In this dynamic position, you will play a key role in shaping recruitment across apprenticeships, internships, and graduate programs, driving attraction strategies and stakeholder engagement within a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Skilled at managing difficult conversations.
• Autonomous working capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain relationships with universities and manage recruitment events.
• Support on talent acquisition projects and manage candidate interactions.
• Coordinate assessments and pipeline management for candidate selection.

Skills

Highly organised

Confident communicator

High attention to detail

Ability to work in fast-paced environment

Experience in Early Careers or Recruitment

Job description

Company Description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, andtogether we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, andtransport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across theUK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role, including up to 5 days per week when necessary.

This is an exciting 12 month Fixed Term Contract opportunity to work within our Early Careers Recruitment team covering our 2026 recruitment intake – we recruit Apprentices, Industrial Placements, Summer Internship and Graduates across the UK.

Key deliverables

• Attraction Activity
  • Maintain relationships with universities we work with and attraction third party suppliers. This includes but is not limited to posting roles with our partners/universities, updating profiles, managing success, feeding into strategy and adapting based on activity/demand, regular catch ups
  • Managing in person events (either at PA or external), sourcing business representatives, creating assets, preparing slides, arranging logistics, monitoring attendance, managing follow up, attending events and representing PA where applicable
  • Working closely with Talent Branding team in TA – developing assets, updating website/brochure,
  • Reviewing/developing general attraction strategy

• Operations & Pipeline Management
  • Work closely with TA Ops team to set up application forms on SR, prepare roles on SR, email comms for the years, candidate survey
  • Set up roles on Workday with appropriate targets ready for Go Live date
  • Collate job adverts across all areas – review with stakeholders and update if applicable
  • Pipeline Management – support coordinator where applicable with pipeline management which includes but not limited to, online assessment management with Artic Shores, applying adjustments for candidates, rejecting candidates, progressing candidates to right stage, managing keep warm comms for candidates
  • Pipeline reporting – regular monitoring of application stats

• Stakeholder management
  • Communicating with various stakeholders across the firm throughout the cycle, guiding and advising them on status and outcomes
  • Collaborating on attraction activity, assessment design and candidate management
  • Collaborating with wider HR and Corporate teams – People Ops, Vetting, Group Systems, Talent & Development
  • Work with Strategic Operations Managers re Assessor availability and other assessment activity

• Assessment Process – Screening, Technical and Assessment Centres
  • Screening – Screening candidate applications
  • Technical Assessments – working closely with stakeholders to schedule in Technical assessments where applicable, monitoring processes, scheduling candidates in, ensuring stakeholders score/asses in a timely manner
  • Assessment Centres – working with Early Careers Coordinator setting up ACs on Assessment platform, scheduling in assessor training, sourcing assessors across the business for every event, booking candidates in, managing drop outs and no shows, virtual and face to face assessments, booking rooms where applicable, running webinars for candidates, facilitating the assessment days, managing outcomes and wash ups, communicating outcomes to stakeholders
  • Feedback calls – supporting coordinator with feedback calls where necessary
    ACS - booking, timeline,

• Offer and onboarding management
  • Processing all offers for candidates – calling candidates, managing RTW checks, managing offers on SR
  • Collaborate with wider HR – Talent & Development, People Ops, Reward, Vetting – providing update on offer status, target changes

• Ad Hoc activity
  • Support on wider TA projects where applicable
  • Responding to questions/queries daily from across the business
  • Ad-hoc reporting
  • End of Campaign analysis and reporting

Qualifications

Skills required

• Highly organised and has a structured approach to work
• Confident communicator – able to tailor and adapt approach for candidates, assessors, senior stakeholders
• High attention to detail
• Able to work in a fast paced, pressured environment
• Comfortable working autonomously when required
• Good at managing difficult and challenging conversations if required
• Experience of Early Careers or Recruitment Industry

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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