Early Careers & Development Coordinator, Human Resources

The Early Careers Team encompasses apprenticeship and graduate recruitment, as well as development programmes and internships.

The individual will work closely with the Early Careers team, which is comprised of two Early Careers Recruitment and Development Coordinators, the Early Careers Recruitment Lead and the Early Careers Development Advisor. Together the team provide support, guidance, tools and frameworks, internally and externally, in order to attract, select and retain high quality graduate and school leaver talent.

While the focus of the role is the UK, internal advice and guidance is often given to offices across Europe and the Middle East.

The role’s focus, in addition to the other team members, is to ensure that Dentons’ is externally recognised as the leading and preferred employer of emerging talent within the legal industry and that internally Dentons’ actively engages with emerging talent and operates best practice, legal, inclusive and ethical resourcing principles.

Attraction

• Deliver adverts and communication materials in line with the team’s marketing and attraction strategy. This includes collaboration with the design team and uploading materials to Dentons’ systems, digital media platforms, and to university, school & college websites.
• Coordinate with the second Early Careers Recruitment and Development Coordinator to manage posts and scheduling for the early careers social media platforms.
• Book, co-ordinate and attend job fairs and events; this includes liaising with the relevant internal and external contacts, arranging attendees and co-ordinating required materials.
• Arrange, promote and co-ordinate attraction events in house and externally with schools, colleges and universities.
• Acting as the first point of contact for university Brand Ambassador queries.
• Alongside the Early Careers Recruitment Lead, collaborate with internal diversity networks and external providers to manage programs and events related to inclusive outreach and recruitment.

Selection

• Arrange, co-ordinate and facilitate assessment centres across the UK – London, Milton Keynes and Scotland.
• Actively manage candidates through the applicant tracking system.
• Proactively identify and manage all applications that have declared a required adjustment to the process.
• In conjunction with the Early Careers Recruitment Lead, arrange and co-ordinate all vacation scheme activity; including allocation of placements, skills assessments and feedback.
• Screen applications for all programs.
• Conduct first round interviews for scholarship, vacation scheme, trainee and apprenticeship candidates.
• Co-ordinate and conduct feedback sessions following interviews and assessment centres.

Offers and On-boarding

• Extend verbal offers to successful candidates.
• Co-ordinate with the HR Services Centre (DBSE) regarding the offer and on-boarding process.
• In conjunction with the Early Careers Recruitment Lead, define and co-ordinate ’keep in touch’ strategy (takes place during the period between offer and start date).

Development

• In conjunction with the Early Careers Development Advisor and Talent Development team, assist with the annual apprentice and trainee induction programs.
• Where required, and with support of the Early Careers Development Advisor, act as the first point of contact for all queries from the apprentice cohort.
• Working with the HR Services Centre (DBSE) , coordinate the administration for client and international secondments including producing secondment letters, organising visas and accommodation.
• Manage the trainee SRA/LSS registration and admission processes.
• Co-ordinate with the HR Services Centre (DBSE) regarding the Newly Qualified (NQ) offer process.

Relationship Management

• Actively work with relevant Dentons’ employees and Partners to ensure that they are fully aware of the early careers recruitment & development strategy and their role in delivering that strategy.
• Partner with relevant Dentons’ HR employees to ensure that the delivery of the strategy is streamlined and efficient.
• Forge strong, productive and mutually beneficial relationships with relevant publications, websites, careers advisors, students, student groups and brand ambassadors.
• Proactively manage the external relationships with schools and universities and act as the first point of contact for careers advisors, students, student groups and brand ambassadors.
• Work closely with the current trainees, apprentices and associates to encourage them to be move actively involved in the attraction and selection of early careers talent.
• Manage relationships with 3rd party partner organisations including law schools, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Law Society of Scotland (LSS).
• Work closely with and proactively manage the day to day relationships with the Dentons’ HR Services Centre (DBSE) to ensure that they have the materials and tools required to manage their aspect of the process.

Other

• Act as a brand ambassador during internal and external events.
• Oversee work experience requests, and act as a first point of contact for students completing Dentons virtual work experience program.
• Processing of maintenance grants and tuition fees.
• Alongside the second Early Careers Recruitment and Development Coordinator, manage candidate queries in the team’s shared inbox.
• Producing management information and dashboards.
• Responsible for processing and data cleansing in line with GDPR, in conjunction with the HR Services Centre (DBSE).

Dentons is the world’s largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons’ polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com.

Diversity & Inclusion

Essential to our success as a global law firm is our ability to attract and retain the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We want a work environment where everyone can reach their potential and we have an inclusive culture which respects individual differences.

We undertake and support a number of internal and external initiatives aimed at increasing diversity within the profession and we encourage all our partners and staff to get involved. We welcome you to learn more about diversity and inclusion at Dentons.

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and support those in the workplace who have a disability. Any disability disclosure will be dealt with confidentially and sensitively and if you want to speak directly to a member of our team, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com – Enquiries only please, applications will not be accepted via email.

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CV’s sent to the business, nor will we accept any associated terms of business.