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Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager
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Job Title: Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager
Location: London, Reading, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow
Duration: 2 months
Contract Start Date: ASAP
IR35: Inside
About Deloitte
Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client-related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.
About the Role
Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK and is passionate about recruiting the best student talent while making a positive impact on students and wider society.
We engage with students throughout their academic journeys to educate them on career opportunities, help them develop employability skills, and widen access to professional services for a diverse range of candidates.
We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our award-winning Early Careers Recruitment Team as an Early Careers Recruitment Assistant Manager on an initial shorter term basis. This forward-thinking team is dedicated to delivering a best-in-class experience and enhancing the firm's diversity. The team comprises c. 30 in-house individuals and is supported by a recruitment process outsource (RPO) for screening and scheduling.
Responsibilities
As an Assistant Manager, you will take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment process for Early Careers programmes within a specific business area. This will involve strategically managing talent pipelines to meet recruitment demands while upholding diversity, commercial viability, and a positive candidate experience.
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Key responsibilities include:
- Hiring diverse Early Careers talent across an array of student programmes, while delivering a leading experience for both candidates and business stakeholders.
- Managing recruitment delivery for a given business area(s), ensuring effective campaign planning, ongoing pipeline management, providing direction to the RPO team to execute outcomes, overseeing the delivery of final stage assessment events and onboarding new joiners.
- Owning relationships with senior business stakeholders to determine hiring demand and provide regular recruitment updates.
- Enabling the delivery of our Early Careers Talent Engagement strategy by facilitating work experience events, attending careers fairs and school events, and delivering presentations to prospective applicants. Travel may be required.
- Monitoring diversity in pipelines from application through to offer, identifying and implementing strategic interventions where necessary to achieve the firm’s diversity targets.
- Executing and contributing to post-offer engagement plans to retain top talent and ensure a high-class candidate experience.
- Contributing to cross-functional teamwork, including supporting projects and initiatives outside of your business area.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
The ideal candidate for the role should have prior experience in managing and delivering volume hiring, preferably in Early Careers Recruitment.
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Additional requirements include:
- Demonstrable experience in building and nurturing strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to deploy these skills effectively to drive influence.
- Able to flex approach to think strategically and link activity with broader objectives, while switching focus to deal with operational detail where necessary.
- Comfortable analysing and presenting data, while identifying trends and drawing meaningful conclusions from analysis.
Our hybrid working policy
You’ll ideally be based in one of our UK Talent Acquisition hubs either in London, Reading, Birmingham, Manchester or Glasgow.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely.
You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
IR35
As a means of managing tax, commercial and reputational risks, Deloitte prohibits the use of Associates through Personal Service Companies (‘PSCs’). All Associates must contract under PAYE arrangements through a Deloitte approved ‘Employment Company’ (aka ‘umbrella company.’)
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