Main information
Term type:
Contract
Duration:
1 year
Practice area:
People and Talent
Location:
Guildford
The Role
This is an excellent opportunity for someone at an early stage in their career to gain hands-on recruitment experience within a professional services environment.
The role will support the end-to-end recruitment process across Business and Legal teams, ensuring a positive and smooth candidate and hiring manager experience. Organisation, proactivity and confidence to follow up are key to success in this role.
Key focus areas
Working closely with the relevant HR Business Partner (HRBP), the successful candidate will have a range of responsibilities, including:
- Coordinate interviews end-to-end, including diary management, facility bookings and candidate communication
- Monitor, manage and circulate applications across recruitment systems (including AllHires and LinkedIn), as well as those from direct applicants and speculative candidates
- Support screening and review of applications/CVs, for Business Teams hires and other roles as required
- Act as a first point of contact for the Resourcing inbox and manage recruitment calendars & folders
- Support screening calls where appropriate
- Maintain and update the recruitment tracker, providing regular updates for weekly HR meetings
- Liaise with HRBPs ensure timely updates and progress tracking to hiring managers and agencies
- Assist with drafting and updating job descriptions, including supporting template improvements and employer branding content
- Support the preparation and issuing of offer documentation via DocuSign
- Set up and manage agency terms through DocuSign where required
- Provide administrative support across recruitment projects and processes
The ideal candidate will ideally have some experience in a junior recruitment role, or in an office-based or administrative role and will bring a proactive, hands-on approach to delivering high-quality work. They will be organised, dependable and responsive, with the confidence to manage multiple priorities and follow up to ensure progress.
A collaborative mindset is essential, alongside the ability to adapt to different working styles and communicate effectively across the firm.
Qualifications and Experience
- Previous recruitment experience (this could be an entry-level role or similar), or office based work experience
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively
- Confident using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Comfortable learning new systems (experience of recruitment systems or LinkedIn Recruiter is beneficial but not essential)
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Proactive and solutions-focused, with a willingness to take ownership
- Confident communicator, able to ask the right questions, follow up proactively and challenge where appropriate to ensure progress
- Comfortable working at pace and managing competing priorities
- Positive and flexible approach, with a willingness to support the wider HR team
- Approachable and professional, with the confidence to build relationships across the firm
- Inquisitive mindset with a desire to learn and improve processes
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage a high volume of activity
The Opportunity
- Competitive base salary
- Pensions Scheme (5% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent health insurance
- Life assurance
- Receive either the sum of £750 per annum as a travel allowance or reimbursement of carparking expenses via a pay as you go card at a local carpark (likely to be Farnham Road carpark)
- Travel – option to apply for an interest free loan for a season ticket or parking permit
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay (after sufficient service)
- Cash back scheme
- Comprehensive flexible benefits package including:
- Critical illness insurance
- Buy/Sell holiday scheme
- Dental insurance
- Cycle to work schemes
- Taste card
- Fun pass
- Give as you earn
- Discounted gym memberships and shopping
- Profit share and discretionary bonus schemes
The Firm
Stevens & Bolton – making a positive difference to your career
You’ll work with people who listen, and who actively and willingly support one another within a collaborative and engaging environment. We genuinely care about our people and strive to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive and happy workforce.
We are recognised as a top firm in The Times Best Law Firms 2025, shortlisted for “Law Firm of the Year: The Independents” at The Lawyer Awards 2025 and shortlisted for “Regional/Offshore Team of the Year” at the Legal Business Awards 2025. The Firm was recently named “Law firm of the year” at the 2025 Legal Cheek Awards, was shortlisted for “ESG Initiative of the Year” at the Women, Influence & Power in Law UK 2024 Awards and shortlisted for “UK Law Firm of the Year - Small/Mid-Sized Firm” at the British Legal Awards 2023. Our refurbished office has been awarded a RICS SKA silver certificate and a 2-star Fitwel accreditation.
We’ve made excellence the hallmark of our firm: in the clear advice we give, in the enduring client relationships we build and in our proactive and highly responsive service. We seek to recruit people who will help us maintain and build on this, and in return we offer excellent long-term career and development opportunities.
Diversity & Inclusion
We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I). This drives a strategy which focuses on constant promotion of an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to realise their full potential and be themselves at work. In 2020 we were shortlisted for “Best D&I Initiative” at The HR Awards and for “Best Talent and Inclusion Initiative” at The Lawyer Awards.
