We are recruiting for an Early Careers Advisor to join our Early Careers team in either Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow or Birmingham. This is a full-time permanent opportunity.
Sitting within the wider HR function, this team is responsible for attracting, developing and supporting future legal talent through programmes such as vacation schemes, training contracts and solicitor apprenticeships. The team is structured to provide both strategic oversight and operational delivery, working closely with colleagues across HR, recruitment, and the legal business.
As an Advisor, you’ll play a key role in managing recruitment campaigns, facilitating assessment centres, managing candidate communications, and ensuring a seamless onboarding experience. You’ll also contribute to programme development, help deliver insight and outreach events, and act as a key point of contact for candidates and internal stakeholders alike.
Your Role
As an Early Careers Advisor your day to day remit includes:
* Co-ordinating and supporting the end-to-end delivery of early careers legal programmes, including recruitment campaigns, assessment centres and onboarding processes.
* Manage candidate communications and act as a key point of contact throughout the recruitment campaign and training contract lifecycle.
* Design and implement trainee recruitment advertising and attraction campaigns and an appropriate assessment process, continuously reviewing, improving and evaluating its effectiveness.
* Support the planning and delivery of student outreach, including university activity, law fairs, open evenings and insight events to attract diverse talent into the firm.
* Design and facilitate assessment centres across all TLT offices. Complete offer and feedback processes with candidates and draft offer and contract documentation.
* Support with the design and delivery of a highly engaging induction to ensure trainees are ready and equipped to join their teams.
* Engage, manage and motivate trainee cohorts including pastoral care and development and training needs.
* Collaborate and communicate with internal stakeholders including early careers principals, supervisors, trainees and partners to ensure alignment with business needs and compliance with regulatory requirements.
* Maintain accurate records and reporting for programme activity, including diversity metrics and candidate feedback to support the Early Careers Managers in their work.
* Assist with the development and implementation of training modules and induction programmes for trainees.
* Advocate all TLT qualification routes both internally and externally.
Your Skills and Experience:
* A proven track record of working in recruitment, HR, or early careers programme delivery, recruiting graduates across multiple sites in the legal sector.
* Knowledge of legal qualification routes including SQE, LPC and other jurisdictions.
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including confidence presenting / hosting an event essential.
* Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
* A proactive and solutions-focused approach to problem solving.
* Commitment to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in early careers pathways.
* Experience supporting assessment centres or graduate recruitment campaigns.
* Willingness to travel nationally for assessments and events essential.
* Experienced in the use of an ATS to manage vacancies and candidates preferred.
* Very resilient, a self starter
* Good understanding of relevant employment, data protection, Professional and Regulatory rules (SRA, LSS and LSNI), laws or regulations which are relevant to the recruiting of employees to a Legal Firm.
Your Team
The HR team consists of the HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment and Organisational Development, with specialists in Learning and Development, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing and Sustainability. Making sure everyone thrives during their time at TLT is the focus of our HR team’s work every day. We provide strategic and operational support to our leaders and teams and our HR specialists make sure our people are skilled, creative, valued, motivated, flexible and committed, working in a culture that enables them to perform at their very best.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.