Resourcing Assistant Apprentice

Location: Leeds

Great rewards + benefits + early careers pathways

There are many alternative career pathways within a major international law firm like Addleshaw Goddard. You don't need to be a lawyer to be a leader in this supportive and inclusive professional environment. Just be yourself. And start by being a totally unique Resourcing Assistant Apprentice.

About Addleshaw Goddard

As a premium law firm working for many thousands of leading organisations in over 100 countries, we don't deal in typical problems, typical solutions or typical careers. Our business is about finding the smartest route to the biggest impact, for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we serve. That means bringing great minds together and helping individuals to be the best they can be.

The many awards, nominations and top rankings we are proud to have received in recent years include accolades for training, peer support, innovation, gender equality, culture and diversity.

About the Role

This role sits within the Resourcing Team, who are responsible for managing recruitment for the Firm. You can expect to work cohesively with the wider HR Team, key stakeholders and partners within the business. The team is led by the Head of Resourcing with the support of three Managers, six Advisors and two Assistants. We are now looking to recruit an additional apprentice to join the team.

Joining our two-year programme as a Resourcing Assistant Apprentice you will gain hands on experience in an extremely varied role, encompassing a wide range of administrative tasks and the ability to work with Advisors on our vacancies. You will be involved in supporting the operations of recruitment from an administrative perspective, across our UK and international offices. You will also work towards completing the Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship.

Upon completion of the scheme, you'll have the opportunity to progress within the team and continue building your career with us (subject to vacancies).

What we are looking for

There is no such thing as a ‘typical' Addleshaw Goddard candidate. As a firm, we have always been shaped by different ways of looking at the world. We know our success depends on giving opportunities to people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations and perspectives.

Of course, there are some attributes we would like you to bring to this role (listed below). However, your personality and individuality matter just as much – we want you to be yourself and we will do our best to build your skillset.

• A desire to develop and progress within a recruitment role.
• Ability to get on well with a broad range of people and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to use different approaches depending on the audience and the context.
• High level of attention to detail with significant emphasis on quality of work.
• Ability to be resilient and successfully manage multiple competing workstreams.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Minimum 5 GCSEs, including English and Maths at Grade 4/C or above.

The following list, whilst not exhaustive, gives a flavour of what you can expect if you are to be successful:

• Responsible for updating our recruitment system and external job boards with vacancy information
• Scheduling interviews and ad hoc recruitment events
• Generation of recruitment correspondence (including templated offer letters and contracts of employment)
• Ownership and production of regular reports, using the recruitment system, so the team can monitor recruitment activity, success rates, agency performance and the diversity of our candidate pipeline
• Ownership and maintenance of recruitment spreadsheets, templates and key recruitment documents
• Support with the management of our agency relationships, including arranging agency briefings and organising payment of agency invoices
• Manage recruitment invoicing
• Manage the Recruitment inbox

What you can expect

With Addleshaw Goddard, you can expect a supportive team culture, a flexible, friendly and state-of-the-art working environment, and an attractive salary and benefits package.

For the role of Resourcing Assistant Apprentice, we will reward you with a starting salary of £21,500 a year, with the potential for salary increments in your second year.

Core benefits include Life Assurance, Income Protection, Pension and Bonus schemes, with additional Health & Wellbeing benefits and services, plus many voluntary Lifestyle benefits, ranging from a cycle to work scheme, gym allowance and Give As You Earn scheme to season ticket travel loans and railcards.

Our early careers pathways are based on delivering the right training and development opportunities for you as an individual. Our dedicated early careers team is on hand with advice and assistance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of a person's sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, background or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to having a diverse team and actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and communities.

To do this effectively, we'd like to hear from you as soon as possible if there are things we can do to support you through the application or interview process – for example, providing you with additional time, organising appointments on particular days, or providing any accessibility support you may require to access our resources or buildings.  If you would like to discuss ways in which we can support you, please email earlycareers@addleshawgoddard.com 

Our FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment.  Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. 

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.

Are you up for the challenge?