Recruitment Assistant Early Talent (Placement Student)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

This role is designed specifically for undergraduate students seeking a placement year or industrial placement as part of their degree programme.

Our Recruitment & Resourcing (R&R) team currently includes 12 collaborative professionals all sitting within the wider People Team which is made up of over 40 friendly dedicated colleagues. Together we support the firm across five key areas: Recruitment & Resourcing Human Resources People Analytics Talent Development and People Business Partnering.

Within our R&R team we have 3 professionals focused on attracting assessing and onboarding approximately 110 trainees per year in addition to coordinating our work experience internship and school outreach July 2026 well be looking for our next placement student to work closely with our Early Talent Advisor and Senior Advisor to play a critical role to support the end-to-end early talent recruitment process.

This is a handson fastpaced role involving high volumes of application screening virtual

interview reviews inbox management and onboarding administration. Alongside this youll also have the opportunity to support strategic projects that enhance candidate experience improve operational efficiency and develop our early talent offerings including work experience internships and EDI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Managing queries within the shared recruitment inbox responding to incoming queries in a timely manner.
Reviewing and scoring applications within our application tracking system we receive approximately 15000 a year.
Reviewing and scoring virtual interviews in HireVue.
Scheduling final interviews by working with teams across the business to obtain availability coordinate invites and make room bookings.
Coordinating the onboarding of new joiners by preparing and issuing new starter documents and contracts.
Support planning of trainee pre-joining activities.
Updating and maintaining accurate data in the application tracking system.
Coordinating interview expenses details to arrange reimbursement with the Finance Team.
Supporting online and on-campus events to represent the firm and raise awareness of opportunities within the sector and firm.
Ad-hoc task event and project support.

Role Requirements

This 12-month placement is for undergraduate students looking to complete a placement to

complement their degree. Students applying should be on-track for a 2:1 or above and

demonstrate the following skills:

Strong team orientated collaborative approach.
Excellent administrative and organisational skills with the ability to progress multiple tasks
simultaneously prioritise workload and maintain accurate data.
Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced environment whilst maintaining attention to detail.
A confident communicator able to deal comfortably and credibly with staff at all levels both internally and externally
Takes ownership of own workload and development
Professional and confident with a positive can-do attitude

Required Experience:

Junior IC

This role is designed specifically for undergraduate students seeking a placement year or industrial placement as part of their degree programme.Our Recruitment & Resourcing (R&R) team currently includes 12 collaborative professionals all sitting within the wider People Team which is made up of over...