Early Careers Talent Acquisition Coordinator (6m FTC)

Linklaters Italy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Fitness centre access

Pension options

Life assurance

Travel insurance

Holiday leave

Job summary

Linklaters is seeking an experienced coordinator to join our Early Careers team on a 6-month fixed-term contract in London. This busy role supports assessment centres, vacation schemes and trainee development activities, ensuring a first-class candidate and trainee experience.

Based in our London office with a hybrid working model, you will manage recruitment events, handle high-volume inboxes, maintain records and assist with onboarding for future trainees, working closely with senior

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a busy coordination or administrative role, ideally within HR, recruitment or professional services.
• The confidence to work with senior stakeholders and manage competing demands.
• Outstanding organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A proactive, solutions‑focused approach and the ability to work independently.
• Excellent time management and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to get stuck in wherever needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating assessment centres, interviews, candidate travel and recruitment events
• Managing high-volume inboxes and responding to candidate and trainee queries
• Supporting major trainee development processes, including inductions, seat moves, qualifications and secondments
• Helping to deliver our vacation schemes, insight programmes and open days
• Maintaining accurate records, processing invoices and managing reporting and spreadsheets
• Producing offer documentation and onboarding support for future trainees
• Supporting Early Careers marketing initiatives and social media activity

Skills

Highly organised

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Collaborative mindset

Job description

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind‑set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The role: We're looking for an experienced coordinator to join our Early Careers team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is a busy, varied role at the heart of our trainee recruitment and development programmes, and we need someone who can hit the ground running from day one. You'll play a key role in delivering a first‑class candidate and trainee experience, supporting everything from assessment centres and vacation schemes through to trainee development activities and future trainee engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinating assessment centres, interviews, candidate travel and recruitment events
• Managing high-volume inboxes and responding to candidate and trainee queries
• Supporting major trainee development processes, including inductions, seat moves, qualifications and secondments
• Helping to deliver our vacation schemes, insight programmes and open days
• Maintaining accurate records, processing invoices and managing reporting and spreadsheets
• Producing offer documentation and onboarding support for future trainees
• Supporting Early Careers marketing initiatives and social media activity

What we're looking for

We're looking for a highly organised coordinator who is comfortable juggling multiple priorities and building relationships across the business.

You’ll bring

• Previous experience in a busy coordination or administrative role, ideally within HR, recruitment or professional services
• The confidence to work with senior stakeholders and manage competing demands
• Outstanding organisational skills and exceptional attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A proactive, solutions‑focused approach and the ability to work independently
• Excellent time management and the ability to stay calm under pressure
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to get stuck in wherever needed

What’s on offer

This role will be based in our London office, with a hybrid working model. Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success.

• Health & Wellbeing Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
• Finance Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.
• Family & Lifestyle Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
• Emergency family care Additional holiday/birthday leave.
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan.
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

As a responsible business, it is important that we represent the diversity of our people, our clients and our communities. We know that diversity makes us a better law firm and helps us attract the best talent, drive innovation with diversity of thought, and deliver the best experience to everyone who comes into contact with us.

We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process. Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual’s ability for the safe and effective performance of a job. Those involved in recruitment and selection decisions and processes are also provided with guidance on diversity issues.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.

Specific experience requirements advertised on a role do not intend to preclude applications from candidates who may have more or less experience. Our intention is only to indicate a guideline as to the necessary skills for the role as described.