Recruitment Assistant

ABOUT THE ROLE

This full time, London based, Recruitment Assistant role, is to join a friendly, dynamic and forward-thinking HR Department. Led by the HR Director, with additional leadership from the Head of HR, the department is made up of several specialisms: People, Recruitment, Learning and Development (L&D), HR Systems and Payroll. The team of 13 provides support to c400 colleagues, across three offices.

As the Recruitment Assistant, you will be managed by and work closely with the Recruitment Manager and play a key role in helping the firm achieve its FY29 growth strategy and beyond. Due to the size of the firm, the role will provide you with exposure across our graduate, lateral, partner and work experience recruitment work-streams, as well as owning our candidate onboarding process. You will also have the opportunity to meet a wide range of people across all our internal teams and build your personal brand within a collaborative firm.

Your day-to-day tasks will be varied and span all of our recruitment workflows. Some of these tasks will include:

Lateral (experienced hire) recruitment

• Advertise positions both externally, and internally via our intranet, adhering to EDI best practices
• Work closely with agencies and internal colleagues regarding interview set-up and candidate feedback
• Be a superuser of our applicant tracking system (ATS), Workable, including exploring workflow improvements, ensuring ‘clean data’ and advocating the ATS to internal managers
• Assist with talent mapping
• Be our ‘onboarding champion’ and own the candidate pre-boarding and on-boarding journey.

Trainee (graduate) recruitment

• Liaise with candidates regarding the status of their applications and keep key business stakeholders updated on progress
• Assisting the Recruitment Manager with organising our graduate assessment days
• Assisting the Recruitment Manager/L&D team with organising our trainee induction week, including booking external/internal sessions.

Partner recruitment

• Work closely with agencies and internal stakeholders regarding interview set-up and candidate feedback
• Assisting the Recruitment Manager with the pre/onboarding process for new partner hires.

Work experience

• Assisting the Recruitment Manager with organising our diversity and social mobility initiatives working closely with organisations to organise work experience programmes.

ABOUT YOU

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys and thrives in a high performing, people focused work environment. You will have some previous experience in a recruitment related or client facing office administration focused position, ideally in a professional services environment, with the ability to juggle multiple tasks concurrently. You will have an infectious passion for people and recognise the importance of candidate experience and wanting to provide candidates with a best-in-class recruitment experience.

In return, you will be joining a firm during an exciting period of growth and have the opportunity to work closely with an experienced Recruitment Manager and wider HR team, gaining exposure across the entire business, where ideas are championed, and we support career growth and progression.

WHY US

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY

Application review

Your profile will be screened by the Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans. If you CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to a first stage Teams interview.

1st interview (via Teams)

This will be with Ash Evans, who will discuss your interest in the role, what you are looking for professionally, and ask some competency/behavioural questions that relate to the key skills/behaviours needed for this position.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't progressed to the next interview stage, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

2nd interview (in person at our London office)

At this stage, you will meet Ash in person, our Head of HR, our L&D Manager and also some of the wider team. We will explore your experince in more detail and also welcome any follow up quesitons you may have. We will also set some tasks so that you can showcase your expertise practically.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening partner, who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.