Candidate Engagement Specialist - Student Recruitment - 12 month FTC - UK Wide in London

Student Talent Attraction & Acquisition Advisor – Candidate Engagement and Sourcing Specialist - 12 month FTC or Secondment – UK Wide 

The Opportunity:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the in-house recruitment team at EY, finding future talent that will enable EY to deliver our strategy. You will manage pipelines, events and relationships offering an exceptional candidate experience at all stages. You will also work closely with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to execute and deliver the candidate engagement and sourcing strategy. This role will also form part of our newly created Candidate Engagement & Sourcing Team which is responsible for the engagement of candidates from sourcing through to selection, offer and pre-boarding.

Your Key Responsibilities: 

The Student Talent Attraction & Acquisition team are responsible for engaging, sourcing, and attracting the best and most diverse candidates to the firm’s school, work experience and graduate programmes across the UK. We are looking for someone who can work autonomously managing pipelines alongside managing relationships with schools, universities, and candidates to continually develop and engage diverse talent pools for EY. You will also be involved in planning and running innovative candidate engagement events alongside delivering on internal projects within the team. 

Key aspects of the role: 

• Identifying and utilising the most appropriate sourcing channels to attract the best talent using direct sourcing methods 
• Engaging directly with candidates at various stages in the recruitment process to support specialist queries or directly contribute to a best-in-class candidate experience
• Supporting the development and delivery of candidate engagement plans through the candidate end to end journey
• Contributes to the achievement of Student Recruitment hiring targets across all programmes
• Demonstrates an understanding of and experience with strengths-based assessment methods used at EY
• Can evidence experience in multi-layered relationship building and being able to foster strong working partnerships with internal and external teams & suppliers
• A knowledge and experience of the current student attraction space and Early Identification (work experience) programmes 
• Demonstrates high competence and enthusiasm for event planning and delivery 
• Experience of delivering virtual events 
• Managing stakeholders and candidate expectations throughout the recruitment process, advising on and applying best practice recruitment process at all times
• Work with Student Recruitment managers on key aspects of recruitment process, e.g. systems management, reporting, special projects
• Complete understanding of an Applicant Tracking System including tracking, processing candidates, search and reporting capability

Partnering With The Business:

• Gains knowledge with regard to business strategy and performance and demonstrates some understanding of the key business drivers
• Is responsive to business needs, demonstrating speed of response through own actions and proactively proposing ideas and solutions
• Builds a strong internal network for example with Talent Shared Services, Resourcing, Operations, HR and the business to remain abreast of key issues and events and to provide exceptional service and insight to business

MI & Reporting

• Able to produce management/pipeline reports for team and business as required and can identify when data is not accurate or of questionable integrity
• Uses the recruitment portals effectively so that data is maintained with integrity and updates the recruitment records consistently to ensure accurate reporting of candidate activity at all times
• Accurately collects and reports on data for specific KPI’s or produces reports for the team and internal stakeholders

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A passion for student recruitment, either via prior experience or a desire to learn
• Highly organised with an eye for detail
• Confident excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc)
• Experience in event management and delivery
• Relationship building skills – with the ability to challenge where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm
• Enjoy teaming and working with others on core delivery and projects
• Calm and objective when under pressure

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• A passion for candidate engagement
• Experience of either schools or university recruitment (ideally both)
• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment 
• An understanding of Undergraduate and schools work experience programmes
• Previous experience using LinkedIn and/or other sourcing tools
• Experience of managing campaigns for multiple positions and building candidate pipelines  

What working at EY Offers:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy and transactions and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.  

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