Early Careers Advisor/Partner

Business Support
- Melbourne
- Permanent / Full Time
- Join a collegiate team where your growth is cultivated and celebrated
- Truly flexible and supportive working environment
- 30 weeks' Paid Parental Leave for (permanent) staff and partners

**About you**
You will have 3-5 years' experience in a generalist HR or recruitment role (ideally early careers or graduate recruitment).
Key attributes and skills will include:

- Demonstrated experience successfully managing end-to-end seasonal clerkship or graduate recruitment and selection in a corporate environment
- Strong knowledge of the graduate employment market
- Experience designing clerkship or graduate programs highly advantageous but not essential
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources or Learning and Development will be highly regarded
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong planning, organisation and time management skills
- Familiarity with recruitment software and applicant tracking systems
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and work in a fast-paced environment
- A passion for building relationships and connecting talented individuals with career opportunities
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence through results and credibility

**Your role**
This opportunity will see you join our National People and Development team, where you will manage the full life cycle of our Clerkship and Graduate programs within our Melbourne and Sydney offices. This includes our annual recruitment process, on-boarding, management of programmes and general human resources projects/work.
Key responsibilities will include:

- Reviewing, attracting, assessing and coordinating our Early Careers applicants
- building and delivering exciting Early Careers recruitment campaigns for attraction and selection, using various tools
- Managing Early Careers on-boarding
- Finding innovative ways to identify and attract top talent, with a real focus on diversity and inclusion
- Enhancing our Early Careers employer branding materials and tools, ensuring they are of the highest quality and aligned with our objectives
- Contributing to various milestone initiatives related to Graduate recruitment and selection, employer branding and Employee Value Proposition (EVP), social media projects, Diversity and Inclusion strategies, as well as on-boarding and streamlining systems
- The position will require regular domestic travel

**About Gadens**
Gadens is a leading, independent Australian law firm, with a clear vision and strategy for the future. We help people achieve their purpose in a complex world, by leading by example, inspiring others, innovating and building something we are all proud of. We are repeatedly recognised as a leading legal service provider in the Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific legal directories, and many of our partners and special counsel are recognised as leaders in their areas of law.
At Gadens, we:

- develop and inspire our people
- do the right thing and make an impact
- work with quality clients in our chosen markets
- solve problems with people and technology working seamlessly together
- are a widely recognised and respected brand.

**What we offer**
We offer:

- Progressive and market-leading Parental Leave support including:

- 30 weeks' Paid Parental Leave
- Superannuation contributions while on Parental Leave, for up to 52 weeks (based on 5 days/week, regardless of your working days)
- An external coach to support our people through the various stages of the parental leave journey (Launch, Leave and Landing)
- A supported and staggered return
- Budget relief for fee earners upon landing/return
- Support and paid leave for Surrogacy and IVF treatment
- a friendly, down-to-earth, and supportive team environment
- ongoing professional development opportunities
- truly flexible work practices
- health and wellbeing initiatives
- a Climate Active certified carbon neutral workplace powered by renewable energy
- and much more

At Gadens, we engage with all of our people to create a work environment that encourages and promotes inclusion and diversity, while instilling pride in the firm and our values of excellence, collaboration, stewardship, positivity, responsibility and integrity. Our values and culture assist us in creating a cohesive environment in which we are committed equally to professionalism and personal fulfilment. We strive to create a culture where the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility are embraced and lived by our people every day. This includes respecting and connecting with First Nations people, and providing access to justice to those in need through our pro bono practice. This is what makes Gadens a great place to work.