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Our purpose focuses on how we contribute to society, and how our business decisions can contribute to greater trust and solving important problems. In order to achieve our purpose and deliver a first-class service to our clients, we need first-class support internally. The people who power us – our internal teams – have a vital role to make sure we have all the right resources, services and technology to be the best we can be. Not all of us work directly with external clients. Some of our most talented people choose to harness their skills inside of PwC.

Student Recruitment Talent Acquisition Team
Forming part of PwC's Business Solutions, this opportunity is for an Undergraduate work placement, sitting within the People Solutions Talent Acquisition team. This role will deliver the firm's student recruitment strategy to identify, attract, select and engage the most diverse, high quality talent from UK Universities and Schools. There may be the opportunity to support other areas of Talent Acquisition as required.

The Talent Acquisition role is responsible for the engagement, design and development, recruitment and selection and conversion for all School and College Leaver and undergraduate early identification programmes including our Summer Internship and Diversity programmes.

This role will provide support to the team to ensure the smooth running of these programmes. This is a varied role that will enable you to get involved in a variety of aspects of the programmes. You will be part of a friendly and highly motivated team and will get to meet client facing staff throughout your time with us. This role may require some travel during certain times of the year.

Programme

These eleven-month placements are for students who need to complete a placement as part of their degree. You’ll work alongside experienced professionals on live and interesting projects. So you’ll get a good insight into working life at PwC.

What you'll do

• Support recruitment activity for our Flying Start programmes, setting up candidate assessment centres, ensuring events are staffed appropriately and providing outcomes from the assessment centres

• Set up vacancies and be responsible for application pipeline management for all Talent Acquisition programmes within Student Recruitment, such as our diversity programmes and Insight Weeks, with weekly updates to the team

• Act as a key point of contact for students joining these programmes, such as managing communications and joining instructions

• Supporting the exit process of candidates on these programmes, including expenses and transfers on to further programmes, as well as liaising with relevant internal teams

• Maintain various reports relating to attendees of programmes and producing analysis of this data when required

• To be the point of contact for our stakeholders to ensure all joiner data is accurate and up to date

• Support the wider Student Recruitment team, and host some of our virtual assessment days

• Supporting on the delivery of the programmes where appropriate

• Support with internal communications to the business

• Support with event logistics, such as sourcing staff and managing registrations

• Collating candidate feedback received from each programme

• Attending schools, university and virtual events to promote Talent Engagement programmes.

What you'll gain

By experiencing life inside one of the world’s largest professional services organisations, you’ll have a fantastic opportunity to build and work on your commercial and personal skills. Working alongside specialists, you’ll work on projects to give you the best insight into what we’re about. You’ll have the opportunity to build networks with your colleagues and peer group – factors which will make a real difference when you return for your last year at university.

What you'll need

You'll need to have achieved or be on track to pass an undergraduate degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course to pass based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.
To be a second year undergraduate university student on a four-year degree expecting to do a work placement in your third year.

Do you need a work permit?
Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website.

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the ‘Important information’ section of the work permit page on our website.

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.