• Job Description

  Req#: 1462859

  Student Recruitment – Senior Advisor – Operations

  L2.5 Supervising Associate

  Location: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London

  Hybrid working – up to 40% spent on travelling/ on campuses seasonally

  The Opportunity:
  At EY we encourage everyone in our team to be bold, think big and be different. Why?

  Because at EY in an ever-changing world, we have to continue to drive innovation to attract the best diverse talent, and this starts with our student recruitment strategic operations team.

  EY is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 2,500 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes, as well as a broad range of work experience opportunities. To fulfil these demanding requirements, we attract over 75,000 candidates each year. We have a passion not just for recruiting the best student talent but ensuring we attract the most diverse talent by making a positive impact on the lives of students in the UK, and our wider society.

  The student recruitment team is fast paced, forward thinking and innovative. We are a large team based around the UK, working as one team to deliver the most exceptional student experience.

  Our vision is to become the leading and most innovative student recruitment team, revolutionizing how we engage and attract top talent from universities and schools. We strive to be the catalyst that connects exceptional students with our organization, creating a dynamic and diverse talent pipeline that drives our future success. The student market is evolving and complex, and agile thinking with execution is what will continue to make EY stand out from the crowd.

  In pursuit of our vision, our student team are committed to:

  1. Bold and Creative Approaches that Transform: We constantly challenge conventional recruitment methods, embracing creativity and innovation to develop ground-breaking recruitment strategies that captivate and excite students. By thinking outside the box, we aim to leave a lasting impression and position our organization as an irresistible destination for aspiring professionals from diverse backgrounds.
  2. Building a market-leading Candidate Experience: We recognize the importance of building the best candidate experience. Through reducing time in stage and ensuring candidates move promptly through each recruitment stage, to personalized interactions and genuine care, we foster trust, understanding, and a sense of belonging. It’s virtual that students see us as more than just a potential employer, but a company who is committed to building a better working world for everyone.
  3. Elevating our Employer Brand: We strive to cultivate a distinctive and compelling employer brand that resonates with students and sets us apart from competitors. By showcasing our values, culture, and the unique opportunities we offer. Combined with “BIG BANG” and events that bring the “WOW” factor, we attract top talent who align with our organization's vision and contribute to our collective growth plans.
  4. Diversity and Inclusion as a Priority: We are committed to championing diversity and inclusion at every stage of the student recruitment process. By actively seeking out students from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups, we create a vibrant and inclusive community that celebrates individuality and fosters innovation through long-lasting connections.
  5. Data-Driven Decision Making: We leverage data analysis and insights to drive our recruitment strategies. By tracking and analysing key metrics, we gain a deeper understanding of student preferences, behaviours, and trends, allowing us to continuously optimize our approach and make data-driven decisions.

  The Opportunity:
  As a senior advisor, you will work very closely with the student recruitment manager to create a strategy for a successful recruitment campaign, where your primary focus will be executing this strategy and engaging stakeholders as required to ensure exceptional client service. You will manage some candidate pipelines, and with your team, co-create go-to-market strategies, and manage events and relationships whilst offering an exceptional candidate experience at all stages. You will also work closely with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to execute and deliver on the set targets, strategies, pivoting, amending, and improving whenever necessary. You will have a relentless focus on meeting targets and operational excellence, managing and escalating risks where needed. You will be required to assume team leadership responsibilities such as counselling and coaching as well as direct line management of Student Recruitment Advisors. You will also deputise for the Student Recruitment Manager during periods of annual leave.

  In addition, you will work to ensure that the Advisors across the team are operating effectively. You will help to devise, embed and monitor processes, as well as ways of working across the team that will ensure a best-in-class Student Recruitment operation delivering an exceptional experience for the team, business and candidates.

  Your key responsibilities

  • Oversight and management of the 360-recruitment lifecycle focused on filling roles based on workforce planning requirements and business needs
  • Proactive support of the student recruitment team across all regions, supporting wider attraction strategies to build the brand and advocacy across diversity
  • Oversight of top up graduate and school leaver hiring strategies for local market and niche requirements, engaging directly with universities to expand the technology talent pool
  • Active management of recruitment metrics and pipeline (no of applications to offer) involving complex recruitment funnel management and forecasting to ensure proactive top up attraction strategies are in place - to identify potential areas of concern and ensure KPI’s are being met or exceeded on an ongoing basis
  • Responsibility for shortlisting candidates against set criteria in order to effectively fill final stage events
  • Proactive relationship building with key stakeholders, and engaging and reporting to the business to deliver an exceptional client experience
  • Identify new approaches and highly diverse pipelines and talent pools (refugees/military/stem/neurodiversity)
  • Engage with the student team to plan sourcing for niche hard to fill roles, and develops business engagement to expand volunteers and brand ambassadors based on recruitment data and demand forecasts against fill rate
  • Champion the events and engagement strategy targeting diverse talent pools
  • Support the student hiring strategy to ensure a crisp order to the business (workforce planning, Events/Attraction, Nurturing, Assessment, onboarding, offer)
  • Report on flight risk of candidates and reduces renege rate through wider team engagement across student
  • Engage with leaders to bring EVP and brand to life through storytelling to build brand awareness for hiring
  • Lead and collaborate on cross team projects and initiatives to support the wider team
  • Analyse and prepare management information, presenting at meetings and feeding back to key stakeholders, as well as Senior Student Recruitment managers
  • Prioritize and direct workload across the Advisor group, ensuring consistent ways of working are applied
  • Monitor key processes and controls to ensure that quality standards and protocols are being adhered to

  Your work will largely be undertaken remotely / virtually, although you will be required to travel as necessary within the UK to meet key contacts and build relationships with wider client serving teams, as well as attend team meetings, one to ones and deliver or support final stage events, as well as campus, schools and office events.

  Skills and attributes for success

  • Strong team player with positive personal impact
  • Ability and experience of influencing and engaging senior stakeholders
  • Able to work in a client driven environment and flex personal style or direction where needed
  • Strong problem-solving capability

  To qualify for the role you must have

  • Proven ability to work autonomously and to high standards, able to take the lead on assigned projects using knowledge to achieve quality results
  • Experience of leading and motivating others with an emphasis on coaching and counselling
  • Significant recruitment experience, skills and knowledge (ideally student recruitment) and able to manage high volume candidate pipelines
  • Thrive on working to high standards by exceeding targets and KPI’s in a fast-paced environment
  • Proven ability to focus on continuous improvement and innovation

  Ideally, you’ll also have

  • Confident excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc.)
  • Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
  • An awareness of the latest employment legislation and key issues surrounding immigration

  What we look for
  We are looking for an experienced people leader who ideally has experience of working in student recruitment. You will have worked in a fast paced, high volume environment and be comfortable with facilitating the delivery of high quality candidate pipelines to business areas.

  What working at EY offers:

  We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

  • Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  • The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

  EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.
  

  About EY

  As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

  If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

  Join us in building a better working world.

  The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. #studentUK

• About the company

  EY provides consulting, assurance, tax and transaction services that help solve our client’s toughest challenges and build a better working world for all.

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