Investing in future talent is so important to our business and our fabulous Early Talent Team are now on the lookout for an Advisor to join them on a 12 month fixed term contract, supporting the recruitment of our future generation of lawyers.

Home-grown talent is at the heart of our recruitment strategy and as an Early Talent professional there is nothing more rewarding than being able to positively impact someone at the start of their career, whether that is a first step or a career change.  Our Early Talent team are integral to identifying, developing and supporting our future generation of lawyers; working with schools to inspire young people to consider a legal career, recruiting our future trainee solicitors and working closely with them to support their development and wellbeing through to qualification.  We might be a touch biased, but we believe that we deliver a fantastic programme – not only do our clients tell us this, but a number of our partners have progressed from trainees in the firm to the current leaders of our business.

So what will you be doing?

We're looking for someone who shares in our passion for recruiting the very best talent and you'll be doing this in a number of ways, including:

• Supporting the delivery of the early talent strategy, taking responsibility for the assessment and selection of our graduates and apprentices
• Developing key relationships at target universities, providing input into website, digital media and social media channels
• Attending candidate engagement events which may include delivering presentations, attending law fairs, hosting skills workshops and other outreach activities
• Designing and delivering assessment days across all of our office locations
• Taking the lead in keeping in touch with future trainees between acceptance of offer, working with the Early Development Manager on the preboarding programme
• Assisting with the seat and secondment rotation process in all locations
• Co-ordinating the newly qualified solicitor recruitment process

But it's not all about us, to be honest we're more interested in you.  We're open minded about your background but it's likely that you'll have gained experience in an Early Talent role.

At the heart of all that we do as team, is candidate and employee experience, and it's important that you share that ethos too.  Much of your role will be spent liaising with candidates or internal teams, whether that's trainee solicitors, apprentices, supervisors or partners, so an ability to build relationships and communicate effectively is essential.  Given the nature of the role, you'll need to be highly organised and efficient, but as organised as you are, not everything always goes to plan in the world of Early Talent so an ability to adapt and think on your feet is crucial.   We're a busy team, but we're friendly and supportive, and we know that in order to deliver for the business we have to be able to operate effectively as one team.  We work with some fantastic people, we enjoy what we do and we have a bit of fun along the way. But importantly, we're made to feel that we're really contributing to the success of this business.

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum;

• At least one year's experience of working in an Early Talent team
• Proven experience of managing multiple priorities with completing deadlines
• Experience of building relationships with stakeholders at all levels

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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