Recruiter (Graduate/Early Careers Program)

Contract: 1 year (renewable and extendable)

Employment: Outsourced through ManpowerGroup Middle East

Role:

This role focuses on attracting, sourcing, and selecting top graduate and intern talent for our client based in Dubai. You will manage the full recruitment lifecycle for these programs, from initial outreach and candidate screening to offer and onboarding. This includes building relationships with universities, organizing recruitment events, and ensuring a positive candidate experience.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the selection process end-to-end, across internships, trainee programs and graduate roles.
• Participate in all activities connected with Early Talent hiring – sourcing, pre-screening, testing, video interviews, assessment centres, as well as offer management.
• Build and maintain positive candidate and hiring manager experience through the whole process.
• Ensure business representatives are briefed and receive all relevant information to perform the selection and offer process.
• Lead and manage roundtable hiring discussions if required.
• The effective delivery of the sell process to get offers accepted to meet hiring targets.
• Work alongside wider HR colleagues to onboard campus hires.
• Audit hiring reports to ensure divisional data is accurate.

Attraction Process:

• In partnership with the Team Lead, contribute to the development of Early in Career attraction strategy for hiring countries supported
• Participate in all activities connected to promotion of the company within the university environment, support building the Employer brand through social media presence and organising in-person or virtual events
• Attend events (digital or on-campus) on behalf of the client as required.
• Effectively work with Hiring Teams on raising the company profile at target universities.

Additional Responsibilities

• Keep up to date with current and impending legislation, developments and changes in the graduate market and propose changes to graduate recruiting policies and practices.
• Share divisional best practices with the wider EMEA Campus Recruitment Teams.
• Undertake team projects and ad hoc requests as required by the Campus Team Lead.

Skills & Experience:

• Fluent English speaker and with knowledge of Arabic at least on conversational level (minimum B1/B2). Knowledge of other EU languages is an advantage.
• Good knowledge on MS Office.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience as a recruiter, ideally in the early careers and campus division.
• A good understanding of the early careers and campus recruitment landscape is an advantage.
• Strong diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Strong ability to multi-task and handle working in a fast-paced environment yet maintaining a high level of detail.
• Demonstrated client service focus.
• High-level of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to develop relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and senior professionals internally and externally.
• This role may require occasional travel to attend Campus events.