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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Lateral and Early Careers Recruitment Administration Assistant (6 month FTC)

City of London
Posted about 16 hours ago
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Key responsibilities

Lateral Recruitment

  • Onboarding contingent workers to Workday and ensuring internal teams are updated regarding induction and training requirements
  • Booking rooms for interviews and candidate tests
  • Hosting / invigilating locum testing sessions
  • Sharing recruitment terms of business with new suppliers via DocuSign
  • Providing overflow support or holiday cover to the Lateral Recruitment Assistants

Vacation Scheme Applications

  • Assisting with the management of all vacation scheme applications on the applicant tracking system, including monitoring and processing online testing
  • Assisting with screening applications

Assessment Centres (ACs)

  • Responsibility for booking partners and senior associates for Assessment Centres in a timely manner
  • Compiling daily AC packs and ensuring the assessors and candidates have all relevant materials
  • Coordinating AC timetables on the SOVA platform
  • Arranging trainees for the office tours
  • Ensuring the candidate and assessor rooms are booked & set up prior to each AC
  • Assisting with the running of ACs
  • Collation of feedback for each attendee
  • Producing offer and reject letters as required
  • Responsible for expensing all travel receipts
  • Assisting with providing and arranging reasonable adjustments to candidates attending an AC

University Liaison

  • Attending events such as law fairs
  • Assisting with finding representatives for events when needed
  • Coordinating couriers to send documents and collateral to campus events
  • Assisting with room booking and coordination of events when needed

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Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme

PwC·London, UK
£35,000/yr

Why you're a good match

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Your economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.

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Why you're a good match

You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.

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Experience fit

Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.

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General Administration

  • Answering phones, taking messages, dealing with queries in the shared inbox
  • Ad-hoc duties as requested by the Early Careers Advisers and Manager
  • Raising invoices and expenses in a timely manner
  • Right to work checks

Qualifications, skills and experience

  • We would expect the successful candidate to be educated to degree level
  • A minimum of 6 months previous office experience is desirable (ideally in recruitment), however would consider those with less or more experience provided the required competencies are met
  • Events organisation experience is desirable
  • Strong attention to detail and a can-do attitude
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Products, in particular in Excel

Competencies

Personal Leadership

  • Positively impacts those around them, makes quality decisions and develops themselves both personally and professionally
  • Demonstrates sound knowledge in their field
  • Anticipates potential problems and identifies a range of possible solutions
  • Adapts their interpersonal style to suit different audiences in a genuine way

Builds Authentic Relationships

  • Takes time to get to know people beyond their role
  • Treats people with respect and in a fair and consistent way
  • Recognises when colleagues are under pressure and volunteers to assist them where possible

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Collaborates with others

  • Works within teams and across boundaries to share knowledge and achieve results
  • Identifies and builds relationships required to achieve the best outcomes for the firm
  • Engages people with the right skills, knowledge and expertise to provide advice and assist with tasks
  • Connects other people in the firm who have mutual interests or work objectives
  • Generously shares their time, knowledge, expertise and talent to support others' success

Enhances the Client Experience

  • Creates opportunities to enhance the experience of the firm's clients through their daily tasks
  • Behaves consistently with the firm's values in their interactions with others
  • Conducts themselves in a way that reflects positively on the firm's brand, both inside and outside the firm

Achieves Results

  • Maintains focus and drive to achieve quality outcomes
  • Focuses their time and efforts on issues that will have the greatest impact on agreed objectives
  • Anticipates responses and plans their approach accordingly
  • Looks for the most effective way to achieve outcomes
  • Maintains perspective and optimism when faced with setbacks
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Skills

Recruitment Administration
Onboarding
Event Organisation
Applicant Tracking Systems
Microsoft Excel
Interview Coordination
Right To Work Checks
Stakeholder Management
Document Management
Scheduling

Location

City of London, England, United Kingdom

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