Student Recruitment Advisor - Operations - Tax

EY; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Student Recruitment Advisor, where you'll play a key role in shaping the future of student recruitment. This dynamic position involves managing recruitment pipelines, engaging with diverse talent, and delivering exceptional experiences. You'll work in a hybrid environment, balancing office time with campus events, while leveraging your data skills to optimize recruitment strategies. With a commitment to inclusivity and innovation, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of students and the broader community. If you're passionate about operational excellence and eager to drive change, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Career Development Support

Health and Well-being Benefits

Discounts and Promotions

Qualifications

• Experience in managing recruitment pipelines and optimizing funnels.
• Strong data skills with Excel and Power BI for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage recruitment strategies for local markets and niche roles.
• Enhance candidate experience and reduce talent loss.

Skills

360 Recruitment Lifecycle Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Public Speaking

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Student Recruitment Advisor – Operations
Location: Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Hybrid: up to 40% travel/ on campuses, once a week anchor day in the office and running in-person assessment days

The Opportunity:

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

At EY we encourage everyone in our team to be bold, think big and be different. Why?

Because at EY in an ever-changing world, we must continue to drive innovation to attract the best diverse talent, and this starts with our student recruitment strategic operations team.

EY is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 2,500 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes, as well as a broad range of work experience opportunities. To fulfil these demanding requirements, we attract over 75,000 candidates each year. We have a passion not just for recruiting the best student talent but ensuring we attract the most diverse talent by making a positive impact on the lives of students in the UK, and our wider society.

The student recruitment team is fast paced, forward thinking and innovative. We are a large team based around the UK, working as one team to deliver the most exceptional student experience.

The Opportunity

Our vision is to become the leading and most innovative student recruitment team, revolutionizing how we engage and attract top talent from universities and schools. We strive to be the catalyst that connects exceptional students with our organization, creating a dynamic and diverse talent pipeline that drives our future success. The student market is evolving and complex, and agile thinking with execution is what will continue to make EY stand out from the crowd.

We operate a hybrid model, you will need to spend time in the office, and you will also spend up to 40% of your time at university or school events.

To qualify for the role, you’ll have some of the following:

• A passion for student recruitment, with prior 360 recruitment full lifecycle experience in managing recruitment pipelines, funnel optimisation, recruitment forecasting to ensure proactive top up attraction strategies are in place
• Previous experience in a large organisation in a high-volume recruitment operational role or delivering across scale and regional complexity
• Strong data skills with the ability to spot anomalies and tell stories with that data; you should be confident using Excel and or Power BI (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc)
• Stakeholder management and relationship-building skills – with the ability to challenge where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm
• Proactively supports the student recruitment team across all regions supporting wider attraction strategies to build a brand identity and advocacy across diversity
• Delivers top up graduate and school leaver hiring strategies for local market and niche requirements
• Primary focus on fill rate aligned to regional and markets strategy across all programmes
• Proactively manages the candidate experience and time in process to provide the best experience, reduce renege rates, flight risks and talent loss
• Understanding all aspects of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) including tracking, processing candidates, search and reporting capabilities
• Demonstrating an understanding of and experience of strengths-based assessment tools and methodology behind each

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Experience of public speaking/ delivering workshops to students
• Ability to quickly prioritise work and remain flexible in accordance with business needs
• Proven ability to work autonomously and to high standards, able to take the lead on assigned projects using knowledge to achieve quality results
• Proactively engages with the student team to plan sourcing for niche hard to fill roles and develops business engagement to expand volunteers and brand ambassadors based on recruitment data and demand forecasts against fill rate
• Involvement in cross team projects and initiatives to support the wider team
• Drives continuous improvement of the recruitment process to reduce talent loss and time in process
• Passionate about operational recruitment excellence
• Ability to work in a face paced environment ever evolving, and exciting recruitment environment

What we look for
We are a large team based around the UK, working as one team to deliver the most exceptional student experience. We have a genuine passion for giving our future talent the right start in their career. If you share that passion, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

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.

Please note
Prior to finalising 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!