Recruitment Advisor - Northern Ireland

EY; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Recruitment Advisor to join their in-house recruitment team. This role offers the chance to shape the candidate experience and work closely with senior management to implement effective recruitment strategies. You will focus on direct sourcing while advocating for diversity and inclusion, ensuring a broad pool of candidates. With a commitment to flexible working arrangements, this position allows you to balance your professional and personal priorities while contributing to a team dedicated to excellence in client service. If you're passionate about recruitment and eager to make a meaningful impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

Career Development Support

Health and Well-being Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Discounts and Promotions

Qualifications

• Proven track record in volume recruitment and managing specialist briefs.
• Solid experience in direct sourcing and recruitment strategy implementation.

Responsibilities

• Drive planning and delivery of recruitment for specific business areas.
• Act as an ambassador for EY culture while sourcing exceptional talent.

Skills

Recruitment Planning

Market Knowledge

Assessment Methods

Direct Sourcing

KPI Advocacy

Project Management

Relationship Building

Job description

EY - Recruitment Advisor, Northern Ireland
Level 2: Senior Associate
Location: Belfast or Derry
Hybrid working: Currently 1-2 days in the office

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the in-house recruitment team at EY, finding future talent that will enable EY to deliver our strategy

The Opportunity:
Working as a valued member of the UK&I Experience Hired recruitment team, you have the opportunity to deliver a best in class candidate experience and identify talent in the market directly. We’re looking for someone like you who has the autonomy to become a key business partner to your stakeholders, offering advice on best practice defining a sourcing strategy to deliver the end-to-end recruitment processes across your portfolio.

Your Key Responsibilities:
You’ll spend most of your time independently driving the planning, coordination and delivery of recruitment for a specific business area or sub service level. Partners, Directors and Senior Managers will look to you for best practice, market knowledge and the ability to source exceptional talent. Furthermore, you will act as an ambassador, embodying the EY culture and reputation.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• Delivers appropriate recruitment plans based on knowledge of recruitment methods and concepts
• Adds value by demonstrating a thorough understanding of trends and market knowledge of sector using knowledge to inform actions and sourcing plans
• Demonstrates an understanding of assessment methods e.g. competency-based interviewing, psychometric testing, technical testing and assessment centres
• Develops knowledges of the business, the external market and trends and ensures that this knowledge is made available to the business and RBP/ team as appropriate
• Is responsive to business needs, demonstrating solutions through own actions and proactively proposing ideas and solutions
• Advocates for D&I and reviews sourcing and attraction methods to ensure they are attracting a diverse pool of candidates
• Demonstrates an awareness of the recruitment market – understanding the key players, mapping of relevant markets and actively tracking careers of the people we want to hire
• Keeps abreast of market intelligence and, in particular, of key events which might indicate a good source of resource
• Demonstrates knowledge regarding the type of measures and targets that are set for recruitment - holds awareness of these targets while delivering work

To qualify for the Role you must have:

• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment while managing more specialist briefs
• Able to implement recruitment strategy once it is operationalised; able to identify the recruitment implications of certain elements of the strategy
• Solid experience of recruiting direct candidates from a variety of sources - headhunting candidates directly for vacancies, resourcing candidates from job boards, recruitment portals etc.
• Ability to quickly pick up full account management of key recruitment areas
• An advocate of KPIs
• Solid experience of direct sourcing methods
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Time and project management skills – able to plan and manage time effectively and flex up and down to deal with key priorities
• Relationship building skills - with the ability to challenge senior management where necessary, always acting with integrity
• Demonstrates a willingness to look beyond the task at hand and consider the broader picture
• Demonstrates calm and objectivity when under pressure

What We Look for:
You will be an experienced Recruitment Advisor with a passion for direct sourcing and desire to provide an exceptional candidate experience. You will also work closely with Partners and Directors across the business so the ability to build strong and effective relationships, delivering at times difficult messages, will also be key.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note
Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.