Early Careers Recruitment Business Partner

Aon; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm seeks an Early Careers Talent Acquisition Business Partner in London. You will manage relationships, drive recruitment efforts for Graduate, Internship, and Apprenticeship programs, and contribute to diversity initiatives. Ideal candidates have a strong recruitment background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for inclusive hiring. This hybrid role offers opportunities for growth in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Global Wellbeing Days

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working solutions

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Careers recruitment, ideally in professional services or consulting.
• A genuine interest in sourcing, engaging, screening, and selecting candidates.
• Good time management and ability to manage diverse workload.

Responsibilities

• Managing relationships with business sponsors and hiring managers.
• Supporting marketing and attraction strategy for Early Careers.
• Facilitating assessment centres and ensuring best practices.

Skills

Early Careers recruitment

Building business relationships

Client facing skills

Communication skills

Excel/data management

Tools

MS Office

Applicant Tracking Systems

Job description

Early Careers Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Ready to take your early careers recruitment experience to the next level? Join Aon’s UK Early Careers Talent Acquisition team and help shape the future of our business by attracting and hiring top talent into our Graduate, Internship, Placement, and Apprenticeship programmes.

You’ll work across all Solution Lines, partnering with senior stakeholders and delivering end-to-end recruitment—from innovative attraction campaigns to seamless candidate experiences. You’ll also play a key role in driving diversity and using data and tech to improve outcomes.

This is a great opportunity for someone with early career recruitment experience, ready to take the next step in a global business that values fresh thinking and future talent.

This is a hybrid role based in our London office; you will need to be in‑person 2‑3 days a week, either in the office or supporting events or assessment centres elsewhere in the UK.

What the day will look like

• Managing relationships with business sponsors, hiring managers and HR Business Partners to understand their Early Careers hiring needs.
• Support the delivery of the marketing and attraction strategy including managing supplier relationships, job board advertising, and Aon’s attendance at university and school careers events supported by other EC team members as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring wide coverage and promotion of all EC vacancies through Aon’s careers site and refreshing visibility on social media, particularly LinkedIn.
• Manage support from hiring managers and graduates attending university, college and school career, insight events & work experience programme.
• Attend attraction events representing Aon and our Early Careers programmes.
• Providing regular updates to hiring managers and business sponsors on candidate sourcing, screening and selection for their programmes.
• Manage the business involvement with candidate selection including hiring managers to assess candidates as assessment centres and final interviews.
• Support EC team members in organising all aspects of the assessment centres and final interviews, identifying the best candidates to invite and coordinating hiring manager availability.
• Facilitate assessment centres, ensuring the smooth running of the events, positive candidate and assessor experience, and reinforcing best practice for interviews and selection with hiring managers (assessors).
• Support with assessment centre and interview follow up with candidates and the business, including offering and rejecting candidates, initiating offer process, background checks and other onboarding activities via HR Global Operations, and with candidate follow‑up to ensure successful conclusion.
• Working alongside other members of the EC to team to ensure the businesses engagement in the candidate keep‑in‑touch and onboarding process to ensure a high‑level of candidate engagement and to minimise the number of candidates withdrawing from the programmes.
• Work as part of the EC team to support Aon’s diversity and inclusion strategy within attraction and selection, including events and activities to attract and recruit candidates who would not have previously considered Aon.
• Support EC team with planning and managing Aon’s insight events, work experience and other Aon careers events.
• Support other EC team members with delivery of recruitment and development activities at peak times.

How this role is different

We are a collaborative, high performing team fuelled by ideas and innovation from within that have helped achieve industry recognition. From the ISE Outstanding Employer and Solution Provider Recruitment Partnership award, to being named the Highfliers top Graduate Actuarial Employer of Choice at the 2025, we are a leading organisation in Early Careers recruitment and development.

Our team works to innovate and enhance Aon’s inclusive attraction and selection strategies, enabling us to recruit the talent we need to support our clients and grow our business.

We recruit around 200‑250 new colleagues into Apprentice, Summer Internship, Industrial Placement and Graduate roles annually, who join offices across the UK.

As an Early Careers Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will work alongside three other Business Partners and the UK Early Careers Talent Acquisition Manager, and in partnership with the Early Careers Development Programme Team, the TA Support and Administration Team.

The team has responsibility for attracting, selecting and on‑boarding top talent from across UK schools, colleges and universities, and then developing them in partnership with the Talent Development team during their first 12‑18 months at Aon.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Experience in Early Careers recruitment, ideally in the professional/financial services or consulting industry.
• A genuine interest in all aspects of Early Careers attraction, sourcing, engaging, screening and selecting.
• A passion for building business relationships and motivated by shared success – across the EC and wider HR team.
• Good (internal) client facing skills & experience, with the confidence to manage high client expectations.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office applications, including MS Teams & SharePoint.
• Good Excel/data management knowledge or experience.
• Familiar with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs).
• Good overall technical competency, including the use of AI.
• Excellent time management and comfortable managing a diverse workload with the ability to re‑prioritise.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with candidates, hiring managers and colleagues.
• Problem‑solving skills with a positive ‘can‑do’ attitude to ensure all client and candidate needs are met.
• Good Project Management experience to ensure all tasks and actions are documented and completed in a timely fashion.
• Ability to work on your own initiative to resolve queries in a timely and satisfactory way.
• Knowledge of social media and social sharing.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage an inclusive workforce. Plus, our agile environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions for our colleagues as well.

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive workplace. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. You can request accommodations by emailing us at [e-mail] or your recruiter. We will work with you to meet your needs and ensure a fair and equitable experience.