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Job Description:Senior Resourcing Advisor – Student recruitment/ Early careers
Manchester, Leeds or Sheffield
NEW GROUND WON’T BREAK ITSELF.
At Grant Thornton, we empower our people to do what’s right and help others achieve their goals. As a Senior Resourcing Adviser in the Early Careers team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering our award-winning recruitment strategy. You will be responsible for managing recruitment activity across a designated region or service line, building strong relationships with stakeholders, and ensuring a high-quality candidate experience from attraction through to onboarding.
We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.
A look into the role
As a Senior Resourcing Adviser within the trainee recruitment team, you will:
Help lead and drive our award-winning trainee recruitment strategies, supporting the delivery of key projects and communications across the firm.
Deliver against hiring targets for your region/service line, ensuring timely, high-quality, and inclusive outcomes.
Plan, organise, and attend attraction and pre-joiner events to build early engagement and support a smooth transition into the business.
Build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders in your business areas, acting as a trusted adviser and strategic partner.
Develop and implement a tailored recruitment strategy for your region, aligned with national goals and local market dynamics.
Partner with our brand and resourcing RPO to ensure a successful attraction and assessment strategy that focuses on hiring high-quality and diverse talent.
Own and drive end-to-end project delivery across the full recruitment lifecycle – from attraction and engagement through to assessment, onboarding, and conversion.
Support the setup and delivery of our assessment and selection processes, from initial stages through to final round.
Use data and performance metrics to monitor progress, identify areas for improvement, and drive continuous enhancement of the recruitment process.
Act as a subject matter expert in the student recruitment space, continuously scanning the market for trends, innovations, and best practices.
Knowing you’re right for us
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
Significant experience in high-volume early careers or student recruitment, with a strong understanding of national strategies and local market dynamics.
A proven ability to lead complex recruitment initiatives and projects from concept through to delivery and review.
Skilled at engaging, influencing, and managing senior stakeholders and business leaders.
Strong project management skills, comfortable owning deliverables, timelines, and outcomes across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Experience working in a dispersed, cross-functional team and adept at balancing independent decision-making with collaborative input.
Confident designing and delivering events and programmes that are aligned to brand, diversity, and talent goals.
A passion for creating outstanding candidate experiences, with a continuous improvement mindset and data-led approach.
Knowing we’re right for you
Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.
Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.
Beyond the job
Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.
The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind.
We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.
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