Student Recruitment Senior Advisor – Candidate Engagement and Sourcing Specialist
Permanent, Full-time
Locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow
Hybrid working: up to 40% travel/ on campuses seasonally, anchor day and running assessment days in the office

EY:

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

EY is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 1800 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes and a broad range of work experience opportunities. We attract over 85,000 candidates each year.

Our vision is to become the leading and most innovative student recruitment attraction team, revolutionising how we engage and attract top talent from universities and schools. We are passionate about recruiting the best student talent and ensuring we attract the most diverse talent and positively impact students' lives in the UK and our wider society.

The Opportunity:

The Candidate Engagement team (CES) is responsible for attracting, engaging, and delivering the best and most diverse candidates to the firm’s school, through a mixture of digital platforms. You will help implement a best-in-class candidate experience at all stages.

You will work closely with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to execute and deliver the candidate engagement and sourcing strategy that is focused on filling regional hot spots and creating diverse talent pools.

Your Key Responsibilities:

We are looking for talent who are passionate about candidate experience. Bringing in the latest sourcing ideas to attract and engage with school leaver and graduate talent.

You will lead a team to proactively build and manage talent pools through the platforms Beamery, LinkedIn and Handshake, run digital recruitment marketing and attraction activities to help convert passive job seekers to applicants, oversee Student Recruitments sourcing partnerships including ROI, respond to candidate questions, and lead the delivery of our pre-boarding strategy, our hybrid experience to guide offer holders into the business.

You will also be involved in planning and running innovative candidate engagement events both digitally and in person by region, alongside delivering on internal team projects.

Key aspects of the role:
First and foremost, you'll have a real passion for student recruitment, with innovative ideas for physical and virtual content that will create a big impact.

To qualify for the role, you’ll have some of the following:

• A passion for student recruitment, with prior experience in digital recruitment marketing. Experience in copy writing is preferred but not required
• Some experience leading Early Careers projects.
• Experience of direct headhunting and sourcing through Beamery, LinkedIn and or Handshake, or similar
• Strong data skills with the ability to spot anomalies and tell stories with that data; you should be confident using Excel and or Power BI (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc)
• Relationship-building skills – with the ability to challenge where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and to high standards, able to take the lead on assigned projects using knowledge to achieve quality results.
• Able to spend up to 40% of your time travelling at seasonal peak periods.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Experience in either university or schools’ recruitment (ideally both)
• Social media knowledge and experience
• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment
• Experience of public speaking/ delivering workshops to students
• Experience in line management is preferred but not required
• An understanding of undergraduate and schools work experience programmes
• Experience of managing campaigns for multiple positions and building candidate pipelines
• Ability to quickly prioritise work and remain flexible in accordance with business needs
• Involvement in cross team projects and initiatives to support the wider team

What we look for
We are a large team based around the UK, working as one team to deliver the most exceptional student experience. We have a genuine passion for giving our future talent the right start in their career. If you share that passion, we'd love to hear from you.

What we offer
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

Please note:
Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!