Kennedys is growing our Recruitment team and is excited to announce a new opportunity for a Recruitment Assistant. This is a hybrid role based in our Berkeley Heights, New Jersey office, and is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking to get 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.
- Work closely 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 as needed, and facilitate the progression of the interview process in a timely manner.
- Draft offer recommendations to hiring team and receive required approvals.
- Prepare and send offers to candidates, including composing offer recommendations for approval, and drafting and sending offer packets to candidates.
- 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.
Required Experience
- This is an entry level role. 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.
- Experience working with various online recruitment platforms such as LinkedIn, Indeed, and others.
This is a developing role and the job description is not exhaustive and may vary in line with changes in the team's objectives and firm policy.
The annualized salary range for this role is $52,000-$55,000. However, this is contingent upon level of experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
