Recruitment Manager

Job Title: Recruitment Manager

Location: Northenden, Manchester

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000 per annum + recruiter bonus (depending on experience)

Working Hours: 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday.

Job type: Full time, Permanent

Hours: Monday to Thursday (8:30am – 5:30pm), Friday (8:30am – 5pm). You may be required to work outside of these hours. The working pattern after initial probation can be “3-2″if the successful candidate prefers an office and home based blend.

Express Solicitors are a top 200 Law firm that specialises in personal injury. Established in 2000 and we are a leading personal injury firm that prides ourselves in the work we do helping injured people.

We are LEXCEL and Law Society accredited and are a Legal 500 Leading Firm for both Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence.

The role:

We are looking for a talented recruiter from either a recruitment agency background or an in-house HR role with recruitment experience. Ideally you will have experience of dealing with volume recruitment campaigns (generally around 15 roles in each cohort, 3 times a year) and be successful at recruiting directly for a variety of fee earning and administrative roles.

This role will give you the chance to deal with the full recruitment cycle from drafting job specs to interviewing to offers and on boarding. You will get to turn candidates into colleagues.

A large part of the role will also involve business partnering with universities to arrange and host graduate events. You will get the chance to attend fairs, give talks and run CV workshops.

You must be able to work independently and to a high standard, prioritising workloads and have fantastic attention to detail. While you will be working within the HR team and alongside a Recruitment Specialist, you will be charge of the recruitment cycle for roles under your remit.

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage all job postings within a busy solicitors practice with focus on graduate recruitment.
• Responsible for end to end recruitment. Typically we recruit 6-10 roles per month.
• Responsible for screening CV’s and maintaining jobs boards and measuring return on investment
• Lead and develop links with Universities and education providers to build the brand name and secure the best talent for our graduate programmes.
• Provide CV workshops and talks for universities to embed employer brand
• Compilation and analysis of key recruitment metrics
• Shortlisting candidates using fair and robust techniques, and arranging interviews
• Conducting interviews, using competency based interviewing techniques either by telephone or at the office
• Ensure all interview notes are completed accurately and promptly
• Contacting all applicants, both successful and unsuccessful
• Working with the HR team to develop the employer brand of Express Solicitors
• To be a brand ambassador when dealing with all potential candidates.
• Developing direct attraction strategies, using job boards, social media and other techniques to reduce agency dependence
• Assisting with the general running of the HR department as required. You will also receive support and assistance from the HR team on the recruitment function.
• Travel on an ad hoc basis e.g. graduate recruitment fairs. Naturally, all reasonable expenses will be covered.
• Maintaining Applicant Tracking Software.
• Managing agency suppliers
• Social media and website review to make sure we attract the right candidates
• Other ad hoc duties as required

The Candidate:

Essential

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Worked in recruitment either in house or with a recruitment agency
• Problem solving skills
• Resilience and able to think and perform under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Team worker
• Flexible approach
• Able to act upon own initiative, but take direction from management where appropriate
• Willingness to learn
• Strong understanding of confidentiality – tact and discretion are absolutely essential
• Able to travel for university events
• GCSE Maths and English at Grade C or above
• Competent with all Microsoft processes

Desirable

• Experience of graduate recruitment
• Experience of working in a law firm
• Excellent links with universities
• Own car preferred
• Strong academic achievement (ideally educated to degree level)
• Understanding of UK employment law would be advantageous
• Legal qualifications (LLB, LPC) or experience of working in a legal role would be very advantageous, but are by no means essential.

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 26 days (3 of these are reserved for Christmas closure of the office).
• Private health care after 2 years’ service. Express Solicitors also provides a busy social calendar as well as the option of a standard or a salary sacrifice contributory pension.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of;Human Resources Administrator, HR Admin, HR Coordinator, Recruitment Admin, Recruiter, Recruitment Coordinator, Internal Recruitment, HR, HR Assistant, Recruitment Executive, Internal Recruiter, Recruitment Planner, Recruiter, will also be considered for this role.