Early Careers Recruiter

At WTW, we help the world’s biggest organisations make forward-thinking choices about their people, their investments and the risks they face. Our expertise and advice make them stronger and more successful. We also support them to improve their people’s health, skills and financial wellbeing. You’ll be part of this impact, right from the start.

The Global Early Careers Team is responsible for the attraction, selection, assessment and engagement of early careers candidates on to our structured insight, apprentice, intern and Graduate programmes. We are driven by our commitment to inspire, engage and nurture the next generation of talent as they set out on their career paths.

The Role

You will be responsible for managing and executing a defined recruitment strategy and driving the effective and timely delivery of early careers recruitment activities for several business areas across multiple locations. The key areas of responsibility include:

Candidate Attraction

• Attending and delivering virtual events as well as events on campus, in schools and WTW offices to a variety of audiences from year 12 and 13 students, to undergraduates and their influencers (careers advisors, teachers, faculty leads and parents/carers) – travel outside of your base location will be required to facilitate this
• Partnering with the Employer Brand team and the business on the creation of assets for use on social media

Candidate Screening / Assessment / Management

• Proactive management of the entire early careers’ lifecycle - candidate pipelines, screening of applications, Hire Vue videos and invitation of high calibre, diverse candidates to assessment centres
• Organisation of assessment centres (agreeing dates, agenda, training assessors, hosting candidate drop-in sessions, briefing the team on Top Score set up etc) with the support of recruitment coordinators
• Leading assessment centre wash ups, extending verbal and written offers to successful candidates, providing feedback to unsuccessful ones
• Collaboration with other teams across the business to ensure that trackers and admin are up to date and accurate in real time so that the candidate experience is seamless, onboarding smooth and operational reporting accurate
• Intern conversions – coaching successful interns through the conversion process and extending offers
• Candidate communications – throughout the lifecycle from first click to first day

Candidate Experience / Engagement

• From first click to first day, the recruiter is responsible for early identification of talent, engaging with and nurturing high calibre candidates – from providing coaching sessions to hosting webinars on the application process and life at WTW – each candidate receives a white glove service aimed at helping them to experience our culture before they even join.
• Assisting with the set up and delivery of two insight programmes;
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Stakeholder Management

• Proactive stakeholder management is key. Establishing yourself as an expert in all things early careers is essential.
• Managing weekly/fortnightly data driven operational meetings with stakeholders to provide clear and accurate information. Ability to craft presentation decks.
• Requesting support throughout the process in a timely manner to ensure that you are able to provide the very best in candidate management and experience.
• Contributing to quarterly review meetings; including new season kick off, mid points and season wash ups.

Team Collaboration

• Team collaboration is key within Early Careers team, but also with the many other teams that support us to be able to deliver an excellent candidate experience.
• Collaboration amongst recruiters in the team to establish the…