Talent Acquisition Assistant (Temporary)

Overview:

We are recruiting for a temporary Talent Acquisition Assistant who will provide administrative and scheduling support to the Talent Acquisition team with all recruiting and onboarding efforts for new attorneys, lateral hires, and the summer associate program. This role will be hybrid and located in either our New York or New Haven office. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with all aspects of the Summer Program, including but not limited to preparing and executing social events/training sessions, tracking work assignments, compiling feedback packets for evaluation periods, and maintaining budget log.
• Assist with all aspects of OCI, including but not limited to scheduling and executing on-campus interviews, compiling feedback packets for recruitment committee meetings, logging statistics for reports, and preparing offer letters/rejection notices to all summer associate candidates.
• Assist with high volume interview scheduling for summer associate, lateral associate, and business services candidates.
• Upkeep and record data in the firm’s applicant tracking system and document management database. 
• Organize and execute all recruiting vendor agreements and agency placement fees.
• Process recruitment invoices, placement invoices, and expense reports in accounting management system.

Our ideal candidates demonstrates:

• Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral, including strong attention to detail in all written work
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and assignments simultaneously
• Flexibility and responsiveness, and the ability to thrive in an extremely fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Excellent professionalism and strong interpersonal skills, with a customer service approach to managing internal and external relationships
• Highly motivated self-starter, strong work ethic, enthusiastic “can do” attitude and eagerness to take ownership of their job responsibilities
• Exceptional team player and comfortable working independently as well
• Creative thinker and ability to promote ideas that will generate efficiency and streamline processes

Qualifications 

• A High School Diploma or equivalent 
• Experience with Microsoft Suite required
• Experience with virtual video platforms (Zoom) required
• Experience with Adobe PDF preferred
• Experience with an Applicant Tracking System preferred

About Withersworldwide
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For 125 years, our firm has focused on and helped successful people, families, entrepreneurs, family businesses, governments and institutions negotiate the wide range of legal issues they face in their business and personal lives. Over time, we have gained valuable insights into the ways wealth can be generated, preserved, deployed and enhanced. We assist our clients in a variety of industry sectors including real estate, manufacturing, motorsport, luxury brands, sport, hotels and hospitality, technology, energy, art and cultural assets, life sciences, charities and philanthropy and financial services. With 18 offices our experience means we can see the global picture. We provide legal advice across a range of different practice areas including estate planning, personal and corporate tax and, corporate, banking and finance, access to capital (both private and public) both equity and debt, real estate, intellectual property, immigration, international trust structuring, philanthropy, luxury assets, international probate, public international law and international arbitration.

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