Early Careers Recruitment Manager

Capgemini; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in London seeks a recruitment lead for early careers to manage hiring and deliver a smooth candidate experience. This role involves stakeholder engagement, overseeing recruitment lifecycle, and leading assessment centres. Strong experience in recruitment and strategic thinking are essential. The firm offers training opportunities and values employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Employee wellbeing programs

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment, ideally with a focus on early careers.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills in high-volume environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver early careers recruitment for Capgemini UK.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle ensuring seamless candidate experience.
• Lead virtual and face-to-face assessment centres.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Stakeholder management

Time management

Strategic thinking

Process improvement

Collaboration

Job description

About the job you're considering

Do you want to bring fantastic early talent to Capgemini?

We're looking for someone to lead recruitment for key business areas by working closely with the business and the wider Talent Acquisition and programme teams. We'll be looking to you to help us deliver against our demand, lead on key projects and initiatives and ensure we offer an inclusive process with an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience. This role includes travel to recruitment events, universities and face-to-face assessment centres.

Your role

To support our growth ambitions, we are seeking a dedicated team member to manage early careers recruitment across key business areas. Your work will ensure we attract and hire the right entry-level talent with the skills and potential to contribute meaningfully to our success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver early careers recruitment for Capgemini UK, supporting the annual hiring of circa 400 students.
• Build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders, providing timely updates and driving collaborative decision-making.
• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to business units on best practice and hold regular engagement with senior leadership (e.g. steering committees).
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from application through to offer, ensuring seamless and engaging candidate experience.
• Lead and facilitate virtual and face-to-face assessment centres, ensuring fair and effective selection outcomes.
• Collaborate with L&D programme teams to align on the requirements for each early careers programme and deliver against the demand accordingly.
• Support and liaise with the attraction team to implement inclusive and innovative attraction strategies, including hard-to-fill roles and locations.
• Lead/support projects and contribute to continuous improvement across recruitment operations.
• Represent Capgemini at events such as careers fairs, networking sessions, and digital campaigns.
• Scope for people management responsibilities, including mentoring, team-lead capabilities and performance management.
• Providing regular reporting to inform the business and support strategic planning.

Your skills and experience

• Experience in recruitment, ideally with a focus on early careers.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the early careers market and seasonal campaigns.
• High level of ownership and accountability - you will be responsible for recruitment delivery in your assigned business areas.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of internal and external partners.
• Strategic thinker with experience in planning and delivering against hiring targets.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills in high-volume, fast-paced environments.
• Solution-oriented mindset with a passion for process improvement.
• A collaborative spirit and a team-oriented approach to achieving results.
• Committed to driving inclusive recruitment practices.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and potentially leading others

Your security clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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