We're currently looking for a Talent Acquisition Co-ordinator to join our in-house recruitment team. We recruit for all roles across our UK offices including all of our business support teams, legal teams as well as our directors and partners.  As you can imagine we're very busy.  We are a very close-knit team and, well to be quite honest, we think we are a great team to work in!  We operate a hybrid working policy but would ideally like you to be able to join the Bristol team for a couple of days a week to support your own learning, as well as collaborating on a number of critical recruitment initiatives and projects.

It's no secret that we're an ambitious firm and our vision and culture truly reflect that. At the heart of this is an outstanding client experience, something that Womble Bond Dickinson prides itself on, and it's something that we've become so well known for. We believe it's what will support the growth of our business, allow us to do rewarding and profitable work and create a sustainable business for our people. But we can't uphold that reputation and grow our business without continuing to recruit some of the very best talent in the legal industry.

And that's where our team comes in. We've had some great successes in the past couple of years; attracting outstanding talent to the business, gaining recognition for our apprenticeship programme and recruiting and developing the future leaders of our business through our graduate scheme. But there's plenty more for us to do if we're going to help our business achieve its vision and we need your help in doing that.

So what will you be doing?

We're looking for someone who shares in our passion for outstanding candidate experience and client service delivery. We'll be looking to you to keep us all in check and ensure that our candidates and new joiners have a seamless experience. You'll be doing this in a number of ways including:

• Providing administration support for the Talent Acquisition team
• Being the first point of contact for general queries from across the firm and externally
• Taking responsibility for the pre-employment checking process which includes referencing, enhanced checks through an external provider, regulatory and legal right to work checks
• Keeping in touch with candidates between offer and joining to ensure they are kept up to date with the progress of their pre-employment screening and induction arrangements
• Updating spreadsheets, reports, databases, email groups and various documents
• Liaising with HR team members, Finance, IT, Facilities, Guest Services, Risk and Internal Audit, Line Managers, Partners and others to co-ordinate new joiners inductions
• Adding and updating job vacancies on Linked in and other platforms
• Attending events, webinars and various meetings to ensure we are kept up to date on industry trends and firmwide initiatives
• Working with our Inclusive Recruitment Lead, the wider DEI team and others in the team to continually develop our processes
• Supporting a team of busy recruiters in co-ordinating interviews and assessments

We're a unique team in that we get to speak to a wide variety of people across the firm.  You'll see yourself developing fast as you interact with the vast cross section of teams we support.  You'll be able to get involved with team and firm wide projects as well as early talent initiatives, and we're all involved in championing our DEI/Responsible Business initiatives and networks.

What are we looking for?

We're open minded about your background but it's likely that you'll have gained some administrative experience within a recruitment or HR team, or within a recruitment consultancy. We work in a very busy and fast paced environment so some knowledge of recruitment or HR would be helpful. Beyond that, it's essential that you're highly organised and efficient, have a passion for delivering exceptional candidate experience and are a strong team player.

Given that much of your role will be spent liaising with candidates and hiring teams, an ability to build relationships and communicate effectively is also essential. We're a friendly and supportive team and it's really important to us that you share in that.

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;

• Experience of working in an administrative role within an HR or Recruitment team
• An understanding of background checking
• Proven experience of working on multiple priorities with competing deadlines
• Ability to demonstrate strong IT system skills e.g. excel, databases, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, job boards or similar
• Experience of communicating with people both internally and externally including senior people
• Experience of managing inboxes and dealing with high volumes of emails

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.

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, neurodiversity, 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 DEI 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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