Talent Acquisition Consultant - Early Careers

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • Hatfield

Hatfield

212438-en_GB

Life on the team

We are looking for an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Early Careers to join our Talent Acquisition Talent Team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a seamless and engaging recruitment process for all Early Careers hiring, including graduate recruitment, assisting with apprenticeship placements, industrial placements, and other early careers programmes. You’ll work closely with hiring managers to ensure Early Careers hiring is well-positioned within the business and continuously improve our recruitment processes.

What You’ll do

Managing Early Careers Recruitment: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for graduates – assisting with apprentices, industrial placements, and other Early Careers hiring activity, ensuring an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience.
Advising Hiring Managers: Provide guidance on best practices for Early Careers recruitment, further positioning the benefits of hiring and developing early talent.
Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement within the Early Careers hiring process, leveraging data to drive efficiencies and enhance the candidate journey.
Candidate Engagement: Ensure candidates have a positive experience throughout the recruitment process, from application to onboarding.
University & Industry Engagement: Support and participate in events such as university career fairs, assessment centres, and industry networking events to attract top talent.
Assessment Centres: Facilitate assessment centres as part of the selection process, ensuring a fair, engaging, and effective candidate evaluation experience.
Collaborating with Key Teams: Work closely with the wider Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, and HR teams to align early careers hiring with broader business objectives.

What you’ll need

Experience in Early Careers Recruitment: Previous experience managing graduate, apprenticeship, or industrial placement hiring, ideally within the technology or professional services sector.
Process-Oriented Mindset: A strong operational focus with the ability to streamline recruitment processes and improve efficiency.
Strong Stakeholder Management: Ability to build relationships and influence hiring managers, ensuring alignment on talent needs and recruitment strategies.
Data-Driven Approach: Experience in analysing recruitment data to inform decisions and improve outcomes.
Excellent Communication Skills: Ability to engage and inspire candidates, hiring managers, and internal stakeholders.
Proactive & Organised: A self-starter who can manage multiple priorities and drive continuous improvement.

Why Computacenter?

Opportunity to play a key role in Early Careers recruitment for a leading technology organisation.

Work in a collaborative and dynamic environment with supportive colleagues and leaders.

Be part of a company committed to talent development, innovation, and continuous improvement.

If you’re passionate about talent acquisition and eager to make a real impact in shaping the future of Early Careers at Computacenter, apply now! We’d love to hear from you.

Why you should choose us

Open communication

Despite our size, we’re an open organisation that doesn’t hide behind hierarchy. We communicate regularly, openly and directly. For us, it’s about being straightforward, delivering and doing the right thing. Essentially, we’re people dealing with people.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

You belong

At Computacenter, we celebrate difference and it’s important to us that we have a working culture where you can be free to be yourself; in an environment where you feel valued, respected, and supported to reach your full potential and experience a sense of belonging. Because we know when you thrive, we thrive.

As a proud equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring that there is fair and equal access to opportunities for everyone. Your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a government scheme that helps employers attract, recruit, and retain disabled staff. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats – and guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.