Recruitment Assistant - Early Talent (Placement Student)

Application Deadline: 20 February 2026

Department: Recruitment & Resourcing

Employment Type: Internship

Location: City, London

Compensation: £27,100 / year

Description

This role is designed specifically for undergraduate students seeking a placement year or industrial placement as part of their degree programme.

Our Recruitment & Resourcing (R&R) team currently includes 12 collaborative professionals, all sitting within the wider People Team, which is made up of over 40 friendly, dedicated colleagues. Together, we support the firm across five key areas: Recruitment & Resourcing, Human Resources, People Analytics, Talent Development, and People Business Partnering.

Within our R&R team, we have 3 professionals focused on attracting, assessing and onboarding approximately 110 trainees per year, in addition to coordinating our work experience, internship and school outreach activities. In July 2026, we’ll be looking for our next placement student, to work closely with our Early Talent Advisor and Senior Advisor, to play a critical role to support the end-to-end early talent recruitment process.

This is a hands‑on, fast‑paced role involving high volumes of application screening, virtual

interview reviews, inbox management and onboarding administration. Alongside this, you’ll also have the opportunity to support strategic projects that enhance candidate experience, improve operational efficiency, and develop our early talent offerings — including work experience, internships and EDI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing queries within the shared recruitment inbox, responding to incoming queries in a timely manner.

Reviewing and scoring applications within our application tracking system – we receive approximately 15,000 a year.

Reviewing and scoring virtual interviews in HireVue.

Scheduling final interviews, by working with teams across the business to obtain availability, coordinate invites and make room bookings.

Coordinating the onboarding of new joiners, by preparing and issuing new starter documents and contracts.

Support planning of trainee pre-joining activities.

Updating and maintaining accurate data in the application tracking system.

Coordinating interview expenses details, to arrange reimbursement with the Finance Team.

Supporting online and on-campus events to represent the firm and raise awareness of opportunities within the sector and firm.

Ad-hoc task, event and project support.

Role Requirements

This 12-month placement is for undergraduate students, looking to complete a placement to

compliment their degree. Students applying should be on-track for a 2:1 or above, and

Demonstrate The Following Skills

• Strong team orientated, collaborative approach.