Recruitment Assistant

About the Role

Kennedys is hiring a Recruitment Assistant to join their growing Recruitment team. This is a hybrid role based in their Berkeley Heights, New Jersey office, offering an opportunity to gain experience in legal recruiting.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, source, recruit, and screen for business services and legal support staff positions for all US office locations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring consistent communication and a positive candidate experience.
• Collaborate with the Senior Recruitment Manager to strategize and ensure open roles are filled in a timely manner.
• Proactively source and identify qualified candidates.
• Obtain interview feedback from both hiring team and candidates, and facilitate the progression of the interview process.
• Draft offer recommendations to the hiring team and secure required approvals.
• Prepare and send offers to candidates, including composing offer recommendations for approval, and drafting and sending offer packets.
• Administer and assist with the new joiners' process, including monitoring the return of offer letters, conflict checks, and references.
• Ensure candidate information is up-to-date in the firm's ATS and recruitment spreadsheets.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience working with various online recruitment platforms such as LinkedIn, Indeed, and others.
• Experience working with an ATS and recruitment spreadsheets.

Qualifications

• 0-1 years of recruitment experience in a professional services environment is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Highly professional with strong client-facing skills and an ability to forge strong and lasting internal relationships.
• Proactive, committed, enthusiastic, and innovative.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate at all levels with excellent organizational skills.