Early Careers Senior Advisor - Assessment & Selection Specialist - 15 Month FTC

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

8/12/2025

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Early Careers Senior Advisor - Assessment & Selection Specialist

Level 2.5 Supervising Associate

15 Month Fixed Term Contract/ Secondment

Locations: London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow

Hybrid working: seasonally up to 40% of time spend travelling/ on campuses plus an anchor day in the office and running assessment days

EY:

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all. 

EY is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 1800 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes and a broad range of work experience opportunities. We attract over 85,000 candidates each year.

Our vision is to become the leading and most innovative student recruitment attraction team, revolutionising how we engage and attract top talent from universities and schools. We are passionate about recruiting the best student talent and ensuring we attract the most diverse talent and positively impact students' lives in the UK and our wider society.

The Opportunity:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the in-house recruitment team at EY, finding future talent that will enable EY to deliver our strategy. You will be part of the Assessment and Selection team, delivering a best-in-class assessment process. We are transforming the way we identify future talent. You will act as a strategic lead for our assessments, build meaningful relationships and offer an exceptional candidate experience at all stages. You will also work closely with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to execute and deliver the strategy.

Your Key Responsibilities:

The EY Early Careers team are responsible for attracting the best and most diverse candidates to the firm’s school, work experience and graduate programmes across the UK. You will help plan and execute our assessments strategy and have key contributions to monitoring and improving EY assessment and selection methods. You will be involved in planning and monitoring end to end assessment process

 

Key Skills for Success:

• Demonstrates a passion for high volume assessment and selection methods for early talent programmes, continuous improvement, and best practice to deliver the best diverse quality candidates for student programmes at EY
• Has experience in Assessment Design (this may include Job Analysis, Psychometric item design, assessment centre materials)
• Delivers exceptional EY assessment centres, from design to operational delivery. You will look after this as a cross-team project as an SME and ensure that these high-volume, high-profile events are executed to a high standard ensuring an exceptional candidate experience
• Has a strong understanding of different assessment methods including skills-based hiring
• Strives to remain knowledgeable of technology and assessment options available in the market
• Demonstrates exceptional reporting and data analysis capabilities including threshold, pass rate, withdrawal rate and adverse impact analysis
• Demonstrates an understanding of diversity and inclusion in early careers recruitment, and assessment and selection practices that reduce bias and adverse impact in process
• Demonstrates project management capabilities and an ability to prioritise effectively
• Can evidence experience in multi-layered relationship building and being able to foster strong working partnerships with internal and external teams & suppliers
• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to ensuring assessment vendors deliver work to a high-quality standard
• Works with Student Recruitment managers on key aspects of recruitment process, e.g. systems management, reporting, special projects which includes providing candidates with a best-in-class candidate experience
• Contributes to the achievement of early careers recruitment hiring targets across all programmes
  
  

Partnering with the Business:

• Comfortable communicating complex data insights to senior stakeholders.
• Builds a strong internal network for example with Talent Shared Services , Resourcing, Operations, HR and the business to remain abreast of key issues and events and to provide exceptional service and insight to business
  
  

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in occupational psychology or equivalent
• Experience in Early Careers recruitment and/or assessment design and delivery
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
• Willingness to coach and line manager team members
• Relevant early careers experience
• Highly organised with an eye for detail
• Confident excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc)
• Relationship building skills – with the ability to challenge senior management where necessary, always acting with integrity and enthusiasm
• A willingness to look beyond the task at hand and consider the broader picture
• Calm and objective when under pressure
• Ability to spend up to 40% of your time seasonally travelling/ on campuses
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Experience working in Assessment Consultancy or in-house roles
• Experience in line management is preferred but not required
• Project management experience
• Experience of either schools or university recruitment (ideally both)
• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment
• An understanding of Early ID programmes
  
  

What We Look For

We are a large team based around the UK, working as one team to deliver the most exceptional student experience. We have a genuine passion for giving our future talent the right start in their career. If you share that passion, we'd love to hear from you.  

What We Offer

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:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
  
  

The Exceptional EY Experience. It's Yours To Build.

Please note:

Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters!

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