Trainee In-house Recruiter (Permanent)

Job Title: Trainee In-house Recruiter

Location: Sharston

Salary: £25,000 per annum

Job type: Full time, Permanent

About Us:

Express Solicitors are currently ranked 80 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 5,800 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.

About the Role:

We are currently looking for a Trainee In-house recruiter recruitment to work on cross sector roles. While we are of course a law firm, our recruiters look after all the recruitment needs within the firm. This can be an admin role to a c-suite position and of course everything in between, including HR, IT, Marketing and of course Lawyers. This is an exciting role that gives a great opportunity to learn and develop in a career that is exciting and rewarding. You will initially support and in time work on a variety of roles, from volume roles to high value commercial positions.

As a team of five, we are looking for our next piece of the puzzle. We need an enthusiastic graduate who enjoys a challenge and considers themselves to be a people person.

With two senior recruiters in the team with over 30 years' experience between them, we are able to offer full training and development and more importantly support as you settle into your new role. The right attitude is key to us, someone who is hands on, tenacious, a team player and most importantly cares about our candidates and the experience they have with Express.

This role will give you the chance to deal with the full recruitment cycle form attraction (drafting job specs / networking / attending fairs) to interviewing (telephone, Teams & office) to offers and on boarding. You will get involved in every stage of the process and get to turn candidates into colleagues.

Once fully trained you will:

• Create and manage all job postings within a busy solicitors practice with focus on general recruitment
• Have shared responsibility for end-to-end recruitment. Typically, we recruit 10-15 roles per month
• Screen CV's and maintaining jobs boards and measuring return on investment
• Produce and analysis key recruitment metrics - while we don't work to KPIs we like to know how we are doing!
• Shortlist candidates using fair and robust techniques, and arranging interviews
• Conducting interviews either by telephone, Teams or at the office
• Ensure all interview notes are completed accurately and promptly
• Contact all applicants, both successful and unsuccessful
• To be a brand ambassador when dealing with all potential candidates
• Manage with guidance the agency suppliers
• Ensure excellent diversity & inclusion in everything we do
• Other ad hoc duties as required

About you:

Essential Attributes:

• At least one years' experience working in a customer service environment
• Educated to degree level
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Problem solving skills.
• Resilience and able to think and perform under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• 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.
• Competent with all Microsoft processes

Desired attributes:

• Own car preferred
• Understanding of UK employment law would be advantageous

Salary & Working Hours:

Salary for this role will be £25,000.

Monday to Thursday and 8:30am - 5:30pm Friday 8.30am - 5pm with 1 hour for lunch. At times you may be required to work outside of these hours for things like events or interview.

Benefits:

• 3/2 alternative working from home pattern staff after probation
• 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days
• 3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year of service
• Extra day's holiday for your birthday after 2 years' service
• Private medical insurance available after 2 years' service
• Attending fee earner meetings and training sessions (every other month)
• Death in Service - 2 x salary
• Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget
• Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion
• Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure

Next steps:

If this sounds exciting to you, then we would love to hear from you!

Please click on the APPLY button to submit your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Recruiter, Recruitment, Recruitment Officer, Recruitment Assistant, Recruitment Coordinator, Internal Recruitment, HR, HR Assistant, Recruitment specialist, Recruitment Executive, Internal Recruiter, Resourcing Administrator, Recruitment Planner, HR Officer, Recruitment Coordination Executive, may also be considered for this role.