Graduate Recruitment Advisor

Pinsent Masons Llp; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Birmingham is seeking a skilled professional to manage early talent recruitment and marketing efforts. This role involves developing partnerships, organizing recruitment events, and ensuring a diverse applicant pool. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management abilities, excellent communication skills, and a solid understanding of the early talent market. A degree and/or CIPD qualification is essential for this position, along with relevant experience in stakeholder engagement and recruitment.

Qualifications

• Experience working within the early talent market.
• Experience in a professional services environment.
• Experience with bulk recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Devise and deliver a marketing calendar for early talent roles.
• Engage with partners and create content for attraction activities.
• Plan and deliver graduate attraction events, both virtual and in person.

Skills

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Problem-solving

Diversity and inclusion knowledge

Organizational skills

Interpersonal communication

Education

Degree level education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Responsibilities

• Working with the broader team to devise, develop and deliver a calendar of marketing and attraction activity (both virtual and in person) for early talent roles.
• Engaging with third‑party partners to create content and activities to generate interest in early talent roles.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders on the use of social media and other online platforms to generate interest in early talent roles.
• Working with internal stakeholders such as the social media and PR teams to deliver timely content on the firm’s platforms and through media.
• Own and develop relationships with third‑party partners such as diversity organisations and branding agencies to ensure activity is delivered in a consistent, high quality, organised and thoughtful manner.
• Working with the Graduate Recruitment Manager and Head of Early Talent on integrating the firm’s EVP into attraction strategy including marketing collateral.
• Planning and delivery of graduate attraction and engagement events such as presentations and workshops both virtually and in person, including law fairs and insight events.
• Working with diversity partners (e.g. 10k Foundation, Rare Recruitment and Aspiring Solicitors) to maximise the value of partnership and generate a high number of applications from diverse candidates.
• Planning and delivery of assessment centres, including facilitating on the day and managing candidate outcomes.
• Working with the firm’s compliance team to ensure compliance with UK immigration regulations by verifying and managing the right‑to‑work status for international students applying to graduate entry roles.
• Building and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders of the business to enable and facilitate the Graduate Recruitment strategy.
• Providing verbal feedback to applicants for the various early talent programmes, both successful and unsuccessful.
• Managing candidates via application tracking system.

Qualifications

Educated to degree level standard and/or CIPD.

• Experience of working within the early talent market.
• Experience of working in a professional services environment (desirable). Proven project planning and management skills (management of projects from start to finish will be required).
• Experience of bulk recruitment.
• Experience of dealing with all levels of staff, including senior stakeholders, in a persuasive and credible manner.
• Ability to positively interact with candidates at marketing events and assessment centres.
• Comfortable making presentations to candidate groups and senior colleagues.
• Excellent listening and problem‑solving skills.
• Knowledge of diversity and inclusion challenges within the early talent market, comfortable discussing and challenging in sensitive situations.
• Highly organised and skilled at prioritising, managing timelines and keeping stakeholders updated; comfortable with a mixed workload of annual cycle and project work.
• Knowledge of the UK early talent market desirable.

Personal Qualities / Behaviours

• Professional, approachable, calm, resilient.
• A self‑starter who can work effectively with minimal supervision, but also enjoys being part of a high‑performing team.
• Committed to high standards.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• First‑rate communication skills, including listening and adapting approach to others.
• Able to deal with different cultures and perspectives.
• Willingness to work flexibly as required by the job role.