Emerging Talent Resourcing Advisor

About Hempsons

Hempsons is a leading Healthcare Law Firm and due to growth is seeking an Emerging Talent Resourcing Advisor to join our HR & Talent Acquisition team whom work on a national basis covering our five offices i.e. London, Southampton, Manchester, Harrogate, and Newcastle.

This role can be based in either Manchester, Harrogate or Newcastle and you will be expected to support the firm nationally.

The Role

The Emerging Talent Resourcing Advisor will form a part of the HR & Recruitment Team and ensure that we attract and recruit a high calibre and diverse range of talent. You will be responsible for attracting, retaining and managing our graduate process, support their training and development throughout their time as paralegals, CILEX, legal apprentices, trainee solicitors etc, and all recruitment of our graduates and those at the start of their careers.

Core Duties and responsibilities although not limited to:

• You will be expected to organise and co-ordinate the entire recruitment process (candidate attraction and selection) for our trainee solicitor and legal apprentice programmes, and for all our early careers from paralegals through to NQs.
• Where necessary, develop and implement new approaches to candidate attraction to maximise brand awareness with our target populations and ensure a diverse mix of high calibre of candidates. You will be responsible for running these attraction activities on an ongoing basis
• Apply Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) initiatives to the recruitment process, ensuring the emerging talent schemes contribute to achieving our ED&I aims
• Review and develop the selection process to ensure we constantly improve candidate experience, ensure fairness, make the right recruitment decisions and make efficiencies in the process to reduce time and resource requirements
• Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager to help drive forward the use of social media producing relevant, interesting, enticing and appropriate content and ensuring all internal sign-off procedures have been followed
  
  For current trainees (trainee solicitors and solicitor apprentices), organise the seat rotation process to ensure that trainees receive the necessary guidance, and departments receive the appropriate level of support, including although not limited to:
• Meet with trainees to obtain seat preference information, and liaise with partners across all departments
• Liaise with relevant partners / team leaders in each departments to confirm capacity for trainees, and to allocate supervisors for each trainee
• Finalise the seating plan for review by the Head of HR and Training Principal before circulating to departments for review
• Oversee liaison with the Business Services Manager (with the support from the HR & Recruitment Assistant) to ensure seat move takes place efficiently
• With the support of the HR & Recruitment Assistant inform all of those affected of the changes, including HR, Finance, IT, PA/DPC teams etc.
• Co-ordinate the secondment process for client secondments aimed normally at trainees and paralegals and be the first point of contact. This will include, drafting and issuing relevant paperwork, keeping an uptodate record of secondees (which employee, which Trust client and start and end date), and liaison with relevant departments e.g. payroll, finance, IT etc
  
  For future trainees (trainee solicitors and solicitor apprentices), you will be responsible for the relationship with our future trainee population working closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager and with support from the HR & Recruitment Assistant, including although not limited to:
  
  
• Attract future trainees (whether externally or internally from our paralegal population)
• Liaise with relevant Recruitment Partners on sifting of training contract application forms
• Organise and run any graduate recruitment assessment centres in conjunction with HR Managers / Head of HR
• Prepare feedback and summary reports for post-assessment day decision making meetings
• Support the HR & Recruitment Assistant with LPC events, Future Trainees social events, and Induction programme and
• Liaise with HR Managers / Assistant on drafting and issuing training contract paperwork
• Administer trainees' studies and registering their training contracts with the SRA
• Be the first point of contact for the Firm's relationship with BPP,
• Be the main contact for suppliers of apprenticeships at the firm e.g. BPP and other suppliers
• In partnership with the Talent Acquisition manager, provide interview skills and recruitment training to interview panels and assessors to ensure fairness and objectivity
• Build close links with peers at competitor firms to ensure awareness of competitor activity
• Liaise with HR Managers / Assistant in drafting and issuing Newly Qualified Solicitor paperwork
• Work with the HR & Recruitment team to ensure the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is used as efficiently as possible, and manage data on an ongoing basis to ensure data integrity for quality reporting. This will also include overseeing responses to generic Graduate Recruitment enquiries via ATS and direct emails to our inboxes
• Identify and develop branding initiatives which contribute to the successful employer branding message and articulates the benefits of the role & the organisation to the candidate throughout the process
• Assist the HR & Recruitment Team in ad-hoc matters relating to junior resourcing and development
• Ad-hoc project work, to fit in with Board/EP demand, and as required. For example, and depending on business demand, proposal to consider designing and running a Summer Placement programme for future trainees, and also an Open Day and programme for work placements for individuals starting off in their legal career

And such other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

Skills:

• Experience of a similar role, ideally within a professional services organisation at Officer/Advisor level
• Ability to build strong relationships and gain trust with key stakeholders at all levels
• Strong networking skills to build relationships internally and externally and represent the firm
• Ability to work under pressure and provide accurate results whilst managing a varied workload
• Highly organised and able to succeed within a fast paced, busy environment
• Flexibility and resilience when working through change
• A self-starter who is motivated to work on your own initiative without needing significant direction
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to create multi-media content (for example video, podcasts etc) will be an advantage
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
• A creative and innovative thinker who is able to bring new ideas and approaches to talent acquisition