Allens Hiring for Graduate Recruiter (Sydney) – 12 Month FTC Job at Sydney Full Time

About Allens

As a leading law firm with a respected and established brand, our Corporate Services teams have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, workplace culture, process improvement, business strategy and growth. With Allens, you’ll have the opportunity to identify and set new standards of excellence for the profession, and play a vital role in delivering services to our clients that are responsive, innovative and focused on their needs. You’ll be empowered to find operational efficiencies and drive changes that make a real impact on our clients, people and communities. With a heritage spanning 200 years, shaping the future is in our DNA and our alliance with Linklaters connects our clients and teams with an international network of legal leaders that spans 37 offices in 23 countries.

We value personal growth and career progression equally. Through our in-depth career coaching, focus on innovation, and international secondment program, we aim to create future leaders in the legal industry.

Your role

The best lawyers need the best business partners. At Allens, our business teams are also specialists in their field, using their unique knowledge and expertise to solve critical client and business challenges.

You’ll be a part of our Graduate Recruitment team based in Sydney. This is a fantastic role for somebody looking to take responsibility for hiring our future talent – particularly our Clerks and Graduates.

Having been recognised as the #1 Graduate Employer in Law, and #5 Graduate Employer across all industries by GradAustralia, our team are an innovative, high energy, fun team who work with our Partners and people to create a positive recruitment experience for everyone we come into contact with.

Sitting within our broader People and Development team, you will work in a collaborative environment to attract talent and help high-performing students through our recruitment process to start their careers with us.

As a Graduate Recruiter you will engage your stakeholders (both internal and external) to attract, engage, select and onboard new talent to Allens. Your role within the team could typically include:

• Acting as a brand ambassador of Allens externally – including organising and presenting with confidence at external events e.g. Universities, Careers Fairs and hosting onsite events at Allens.
• Working with others across the firm, including direct contact with Partners, senior Lawyers and our events teams to organise engaging functions and programs for students.
• Designing our market-leading engagement programs like Dive In designed to provide an insight into the world of commercial law to high performing students.
• Managing our social media presence, bringing creative and novel ideas to the team – we don’t have too many barriers to new ideas and we are given the autonomy to run with them so innovative thinking is key.
• Designing, project managing, organising and leading our Clerk and Graduate programs, including end-to-end management of our clerkship recruitment campaign (volume recruitment).
• Identifying and proactively managing emerging talent.

This is a full-time (12-month, fixed-term contract) opportunity however flexibility matters at Allens, so if you are seeking hybrid working or are looking for flexibility in your work, we would be happy to discuss what arrangements would work best for you.

About you

You will have:

• Experience in a similar recruitment role, preferably in legal, professional services or within a complex organisation.
• Strong collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience in working across multiple teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work proactively with very senior stakeholders internally and at universities.
• Problem solving skills and a willingness to take ownership.
• Excellent candidate management experience and focus.
• A desire and ability to grow as a recruitment and HR professional.
• A strong team ethic.
• An ability to establish a professional profile and external networks.

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include:

• Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration; salary continuance insurance, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.
• Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, emergency childcare, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.
• Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible parental leave policy – 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.
• Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

How to apply?

We’d love to hear from you so please click “apply now”! If you would like to find out more, please visit “This is Allens” or listen to our Allens Confidential podcast to hear real stories from real people about life at Allens. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please phone Priyanka Krishnan-D’Souza, Talent Acquisition Consultant.

At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people’s differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align, please express your interest by emailing us at [email protected]. The right role for you might be just around the corner!