Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager, Resourcing, HR

Deloitte LLP; Reading, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent consulting firm is seeking an Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager for a 12-month contract in Reading. You will oversee the recruitment process for Early Careers programmes, ensuring diversity and a positive candidate experience. The role involves managing relationships with stakeholders and facilitating recruitment events to attract top talent. Ideal candidates will have experience in volume hiring and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in managing Early Careers Recruitment or similar volume hiring processes.
• Experience communicating effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment process for Early Careers programmes.
• Manage recruitment delivery and provide direction to the RPO team.
• Facilitate work experience events and attend career fairs.

Skills

Managing and delivering volume hiring

Building strong relationships with stakeholders

Excellent communication skills

Analysing and presenting data

Job description

Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK and is passionate about recruiting the best student talent while making a positive impact on students and wider society. We engage with students throughout their academic journeys to educate them on career opportunities, help them develop employability skills, and widen access to professional services for a diverse range of candidates.

We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our award-winning Early Careers Recruitment Team as an Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager on a 12-month contract. This forward-thinking team is dedicated to delivering a best-in-class experience and enhancing the firm's diversity. The team comprises c. 30 in-house individuals and is supported by a recruitment process outsource (RPO) for screening and scheduling.

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Your role

As an Assistant Manager, you will take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment process for Early Careers programmes within a specific business area. This will involve strategically managing talent pipelines to meet recruitment demands while upholding diversity, commercial viability, and a positive candidate experience.>

Key responsibilities include:

• Hiring diverse Early Careers talent across an array of student programmes; whilst delivering a leading experience for both your candidates and your business stakeholders
• Manage the recruitment delivery for a given business area(s), ensuring effective campaign planning, ongoing pipeline management, providing direction to the RPO team to execute outcomes, overseeing the delivery of final stage assessment events and the onboarding of new joiners
• Own relationships with senior business stakeholders to determine hiring demand and provide regular recruitment updates
• Enable the delivery of our Early Careers Talent Engagement strategy, by facilitating work experience events, attending careers fairs and school events (travel may be required) and delivering presentations to prospective applicants
• Monitor diversity in pipelines from application through to offer, identify and implement where necessary strategic interventions to achieve the firm’s diversity targets
• Execute and contribute towards post offer engagement plans in order to retain top talent and ensure a high class candidate experience
• Contribute to cross-functional team-work, including supporting with projects and initiatives outside of your business area

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• The ideal candidate for the role should have prior experience in managing and delivering volume hiring, preferably in Early Careers Recruitment
• Demonstrable experience in building and nurturing strong relationships with senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to deploy these skills effectively to drive influence
• Able to flex approach to think strategically and link activity with broader objectives, whilst switching focus to deal with operational detail where necessary
• Comfortable analysing and presenting data, whilst also identifying trends and drawing meaningful conclusions from analyses

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