Recruitment Assistant

My client is a highly regarded law firm with an excellent reputation. This is a superb opportunity for someone at an early stage in their career to gain hands-on recruitment experience within a professional services environment. This is a 12 month fixed term contract. Hybrid working on offer.

The role will support the end-to-end recruitment process across Business and Legal teams, ensuring a positive and smooth candidate and hiring manager experience. Organisation, proactivity and confidence to follow up are key to success in this role.

Working closely with the relevant HR Business Partner, the successful candidate will have a range of responsibilities, including:

-Coordinate interviews end-to-end, including diary management, facility bookings and candidate communication

-Monitor, manage and circulate applications across recruitment systems (including AllHires and LinkedIn), as well as those from direct applicants and speculative candidates

-Support screening and review of applications/CVs, for Business Teams hires and other roles as required

-Act as a first point of contact for the Resourcing inbox and manage recruitment calendars & folders

-Support screening calls where appropriate

-Maintain and update the recruitment tracker, providing regular updates for weekly HR meetings

-Liaise with HRBPs ensure timely updates and progress tracking to hiring managers and agencies

-Assist with drafting and updating job descriptions, including supporting template improvements and employer branding content

-Support the preparation and issuing of offer documentation via DocuSign

-Set up and manage agency terms through DocuSign where required

-Provide administrative support across recruitment projects and processes

The ideal candidate will ideally have some experience in a junior recruitment role, or in an office-based or administrative role and will bring a proactive, hands-on approach to delivering high-quality work. They will be organised, dependable and responsive, with the confidence to manage multiple priorities and follow up to ensure progress.

A collaborative mindset is essential, alongside the ability to adapt to different working styles and communicate effectively across the firm.

Whilst we would love to be able to respond to every application we receive, it is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 7 working days, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.