Overview of opportunity:
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 a 6-month contract. 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.
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.
Key responsibilities:
- Hiring diverse Early Careers talent across an array of student programmes; whilst delivering a leading experience for both your candidates and your business stakeholders
- Manage the 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 the onboarding of new joiners
- Own relationships with senior business stakeholders to determine hiring demand and provide regular recruitment updates
- Enable the delivery of our Early Careers Talent Engagement strategy, by facilitating work experience events, attending careers fairs and school events (travel may be required) and delivering presentations to prospective applicants
- Monitor diversity in pipelines from application through to offer, identify and implement where necessary strategic interventions to achieve the firm’s diversity targets
- Execute and contribute towards post offer engagement plans in order to retain top talent and ensure a high class candidate experience
- Contribute to cross-functional team-work, including supporting with projects and initiatives outside of your business area
Role requirements:
The ideal candidate for the role should have prior experience in managing and delivering volume hiring, preferably in Early Careers Recruitment. In addition, we ideally seek the following experience:
- Demonstrable experience in building and nurturing strong relationships with senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills (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, whilst switching focus to deal with operational detail where necessary
- Comfortable analysing and presenting data, whilst also identifying trends and drawing meaningful conclusions from analyses
Our hybrid working policy:
You’ll be based in our London office with hybrid working.
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.
Our commitment to you:
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step:
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.