Job description
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The Deloitte Early Careers Recruitment Team is a fast paced and forward thinking team; fuelled by achieving success, delivering a best-in-class experience and committed to inclusion.
We recruit approximately 3,000 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes, as well as a broad range of work experience opportunities, attracting up to 50,000 candidates for our programmes every year.
The Early Careers Recruitment team is based in offices across the UK, working as one team to deliver a holistic service to our candidates and stakeholders.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Early Careers Recruitment Team as an Early Careers Service Line Advisor to hire the future talent of the firm. The role focuses on providing an outstanding candidate experience whilst building strong relationships with the business and other key stakeholders.
We have a passion not just for recruiting the best student talent in the marketplace, but ensuring we’re making a positive impact on the lives of students in the UK and the wider society.
We are focused on working with students at different times in their academic careers to help educate them on career opportunities, develop employability skills and ensure we widen access to Professional Services to the most diverse range of candidates, reducing barriers any student might face when exploring careers at Deloitte.
Key responsibilities
- Campaign planning and execution
- Work with the service line manager to contribute to the campaign planning process and end of year review
- Based on previous demand plan, model forecasted numbers to fill. These will feed into RPO contract including application screening, job sim review and final stage assessment. Phase numbers across the campaign for tracking
- Plan assessment centres – to be scheduled in advance, balancing business availability (avoiding busy season) and peak candidate applications
- Review pipeline progress, set thresholds at online stages and continuously review pass rates
- Monitor diversity in pipelines from application through to offer, identify and implement where necessary strategic interventions to achieve the firm’s diversity targets
- Work with onboarding to share candidate data for contract generation
- Join onboarding calls to understand candidates at risk and liaise with stakeholders on updates or work arounds
- Execute post offer engagement plans until point of handover to Early Experience, may include newsletters, live chats etc.
- Attend events when needed, travel may be required
- Support with Work Experience hiring as required
- Support projects and initiatives outside of the day-to-day remit, as appropriate
- Support candidates through the work permit process, including working with stakeholders, onboarding and immigration teams, whilst supporting with immigration related queries
Relationship management:
- Direct RPO (AMS) and monitor the progression of candidates through the pipelines, e.g., confirming progression rates, candidates to schedule etc.
- Work with the Programme team to ensure delivery of work experience programmes and an effective and timely conversion process, to maximum ROI
- Develop expertise in the firm’s commitment to the apprenticeship programme
- Work with attraction team to share information on struggling pipelines along with any noticeable campaign trends (e.g., candidate performance, or candidate anecdotal feedback); collaborating to build solutions
- Keep up to date with market intelligence and remain aware of industry trends and best practice
- Keep abreast of opportunities and challenges with direct/indirect competitor, and share insights with team members and the business stakeholders
- Work with relevant parties to set up the Application Tracking System each year, including obtaining vacancy information, job description content and participating in system testing
- Work and collaborate with other HR Professionals, including Reward, Employee Relations and Resourcing Business Partners.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
As an advisor, you will manage the delivery of Early Careers hiring (Graduate, BrightStart, Summer Internship Scheme, Industrial Placement students), for a specific service line. You will be a subject matter expert, providing advice and guidance to your business stakeholders on maximising Early Careers Recruitment to achieve their talent objectives, whilst delivering a great candidate experience across all programmes.
You will work with key parties to ensure efficient hiring outcomes (e.g. AMS, Programme Design team, HR, Resourcing, Attraction, business etc) and manage your pipelines in line with both service line and firm-wide requirements.
You will ensure that there is a fair and consistent approach with a focus on diversity and social mobility, and will be a key advisory contact for Early Recruitment needs.
You will drive improvements and continuous change within the business in terms of the use of Early Careers Recruitment effectively.
- An understanding of the Early Careers recruitment landscape
- 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
- Able to work in a client driven setting and flex personal style or direction where needed
- Thrives on working to high standards in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to focus on continuous improvement and innovation
- Team player with positive personal impact
- Able to build strong work relationships with external and internal senior stakeholders
- Strong communication skills - able to articulate complex data and information to stakeholders and colleagues
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. “
"We’re in the process of transforming the way we do resourcing, to future proof our offering. It’s exciting and there’s never been a better time to join us.”
- Jhon, Enabling Functions
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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