The Early Careers Recruiter designs and executes end-to-end recruitment strategies for graduates and interns while partnering with business leaders to meet hiring needs. They are responsible for building talent pipelines, managing the full-cycle selection process, and ensuring a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience.
Early Careers Recruiter
YOUR DAY IN THE LIFE
The Early Careers Recruiter plays a pivotal role in shaping the future workforce by attracting, engaging and hiring high-quality graduates and interns across regions and disciplines. Working in partnership with Hiring Managers, Talent Attraction colleagues and wider stakeholders, you will design and deliver inclusive, data-driven recruitment strategies that ensure access to diverse early talent pipelines.
You will act as a trusted advisor across Early Careers hiring, combining market insight, structured selection expertise and a strong focus on candidate experience. This is a role for someone who enjoys building long-term talent pipelines, delivering assessment excellence and representing the organisation in the early talent market.
YOU WILL
- Design and deliver end-to-end Early Careers recruitment strategies for graduate, intern and apprenticeship programmes across assigned regions or disciplines.
- Partner with Hiring Managers and business leaders to define hiring needs, forecast demand and shape selection approaches.
- Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines through universities, events, digital channels and targeted outreach.
- Manage full-cycle recruitment activity including screening, interviews, selection decisions, offers and intern conversion processes.
- Apply structured assessment approaches to evaluate candidates fairly and consistently against role requirements.
- Deliver an inclusive and high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Represent the organisation at careers fairs, university events and external engagements to strengthen employer brand and visibility.
- Use data and recruitment insights to monitor pipeline health, improve conversion rates and inform hiring decisions.
- Collaborate with Talent Attraction colleagues to ensure seamless coordination of assessment processes and candidate flow.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of Early Careers programmes, including EDI initiatives and process enhancements.
REQUIREMENTS
- Experience delivering Early Careers, campus or high-volume recruitment in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong ability to build trusted relationships with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated capability in sourcing, engaging and converting early talent pipelines.
- Strong understanding of structured assessment and selection methodologies.
- Ability to manage multiple hiring programmes simultaneously with strong prioritisation skills.
- Confident communication skills with the ability to influence and advise stakeholders.
- Experience using recruitment systems, data and reporting to drive decision-making.
- Strong commitment to inclusive hiring practices and candidate experience excellence.
- Comfortable working in a changing, high-volume environment with seasonal peaks.