A&O Shearman
Early Careers Recruitment Coordinator
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Early Careers Recruitment Coordinator
Human Resources team - London
The HR team at A&O Shearman provides a first-class service to the business, offering strategic HR advice at the business partner level and quality support services in the full range of HR functions through specialist teams such as, learning and development, resourcing, reward, employee relations, payroll, systems and HR administration.
This role is integral to the smooth running of our early careers recruitment programmes and the recruitment of our future talent. It will provide administrative and client-facing support to the Early Careers team who are responsible for hiring 70 - 80 trainees per year, delivering early identification pathways and contributing to the firms Inclusion strategy. The firm is known for its innovation, and this is no different within the Early Careers team, this role will help to evolve our programmes and ensure they remain market leading.
What you will do
- Provide general operational support to the Early Careers Recruitment team.
- Deal with day-to-day recruitment queries from prospective candidates and Partners, as well as daily interaction with our Belfast Early Careers Recruitment administration team.
- Work closely with the Vacation Scheme lead to plan, organise, and host summer and winter Vacation Schemes.
- Support the recruitment, planning, and delivery of the A&O Shearman First Year Programme.
- Support the Vacation Scheme Lead with the organisation and running of the REACH Buddy Scheme and act as a key point of contact for the REACH committee.
- Organise and host open days, recruiter drop-in sessions, and insight events as part of our student engagement and attraction strategy.
- Attend and present at student events, including law fairs, skills sessions, and presentations (virtual or in-person).
- Own and drive a portfolio of key university relationships for A&O Shearman.
- Support the schools and apprenticeships lead in managing external school partnerships, helping to build and maintain relationships that support A&O Shearman's schools engagement strategy and early talent pipeline.
- Organise and host in-person assessment centres during our interview seasons.
- Promote A&O Shearman opportunities and the brand through social media channels.
- Support the delivery of Early Careers attraction and marketing campaigns, including content collection days for social media channels, campaign events, and other employer brand initiatives in partnership with the Early Careers Recruitment Manager.
- Support ad hoc early careers projects.
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What you will have
- Previous recruitment experience within a fast-paced environment, ideally within professional services is preferred.
- Ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
- Be able to identify and evaluate problems and demonstrate the ability to approach and tackle problems effectively.
- Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems and/or HR systems.
- Competent in Microsoft Office.
- Positive, proactive attitude and ability to cope under pressure.
- Excellent organisation, analytical and administration skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Flexible approach to work, as travel will be required to university events and some events will take place outside of typical working hours.
- Confident communicator and presenter, friendly and mature in approach.
- Confident engaging with technology to deliver events.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Desire to drive improvements within processes.
- Professional, with the ability to handle confidential information.
- Team player.
- Creative and solution orientated.
- Willing to go the extra mile in order to deliver an excellent candidate experience.
About A&O Shearman
A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.
We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.
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Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.
What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.
Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.
We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing an onsite gym, wellbeing centre and GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, season ticket loans and online discounts and lifestyle management services.
Our approach to hybrid working seeks to combine and maximise the benefits of effective remote working with the benefits of being in the office. Our current hybrid working arrangements require office based working for a minimum of 60% of your time (i.e. three days per week for a full time role) in accordance with our hybrid working policy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE - A&O Shearman does not accept unsolicited CVs. For further information, please see our UK Recruitment Agency Policy and our commitment to direct sourcing here.
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