Emerging Talent Specialist

Are you passionate about graduate and apprentice programmes? Do you have a knack for identifying and nurturing the brightest minds? We're looking for an Emerging Talent Specialist to join our award-winning Resourcing team on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

As an Emerging Talent Specialist, you will work closely with our Resourcing Business Partner to ensure that our trainees and apprentices have an outstanding experience throughout their training contract and apprenticeship journey. You will play an important role in shaping their development and ensuring they receive the support and guidance needed to thrive.

The main responsibilities of the Emerging Talent Specialist include:

• Provide advice and guidance: Offer personalised support to trainees throughout their training contract or apprenticeship.
• Contribute to the seat rotation process: Work with the emerging talent business partner on seat rotations, balancing the firm's resourcing needs with trainee preferences.
• Moderate and review trainee seat reviews: Monitor performance and provide feedback.
• Manage the secondment process: Coordinate secondment opportunities and review terms.
• Conduct satisfaction surveys: Gather feedback to assess trainee and apprentice satisfaction.
• Organise and run focus groups: Lead focus groups to enhance trainee and apprentice experiences.
• Assist with recruitment events: Support the running of assessment centres, vacation schemes, and attraction events.

What we're looking for:

• Understanding of effective talent management, with experience in managing trainees, apprentices, or similar roles, preferably in a professional services environment.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Exceptional organisational abilities to manage multiple tasks and schedules efficiently.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with trainees, apprentices, and colleagues.
• Problem-solving abilities to identify issues and implement effective solutions.
• Keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy in managing processes.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing needs and priorities.
• A proactive mindset to anticipate needs and improve processes.

If you are passionate about talent management and eager to make a difference, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help shape the future of Burges Salmon.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the third year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the third year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Jenna Hazel (Senior Resourcing Business Partner) at Jenna.Hazel@burges-salmon.com or call on 0117 307 6517.

This advert will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

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