Early Careers Talent Acquisition Assistant, Asia

Your role

The Early Careers Talent Acquisition Assistant, will help deliver an outstanding candidate and student experience across the region. Supporting the Asia Early Careers agenda, you will play an important role in attracting, engaging, and developing future talent, while partnering with colleagues across offices, universities, and the wider business.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about people, enjoys building relationships, and takes pride in creating memorable experiences.

In this role, you will become a trusted partner to students, graduates, universities, and internal stakeholders, helping to deliver a seamless and high-quality campus recruitment experience across Asia. You will coordinate recruitment events, assessment processes, internship and graduate programmes, and campus engagement initiatives that strengthen Linklaters’ reputation as an employer of choice. Beyond delivery, you will also have the opportunity to contribute ideas, improve processes, and help shape how the firm engages with emerging talent in an increasingly competitive market.

Role responsibilities

Providing administrative and coordination support across the Early Careers Talent Acquisition team, helping to deliver an exceptional experience for candidates and supporting trainee recruitment and development programmes across Asia, you will:

• Provide day-to-day administrative support for early careers recruitment campaigns and programmes, including application management, candidate communications, system updates, and maintaining accurate data across recruitment tracking tools.
• Help create a seamless and positive candidate journey by ensuring timely communications, strong organisation, and a high standard of service throughout the recruitment process.
• Facilitate in-person assessment centres by administering case studies and group exercises, coordinating logistics, and sourcing interviewers for vacation schemes and training contracts.
• Support key trainee development and early careers processes, including seat rotations, qualification, and secondments, helping to ensure these important career milestones are delivered smoothly and effectively.
• Organise open days, insight programmes, and vacation schemes, including sourcing principals, buddies, and speakers, finalising schedules, organising and attending social events, and supporting onboarding.
• Contribute to the delivery of engaging campus and programme experiences that leave a strong and lasting impression on students and future trainees.
• Prepare paperwork for vacation scheme offers, training contract offers, and newly qualified roles, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail at every stage.
• Support reporting and spreadsheet management relating to recruitment activity, candidate pipelines, and programme outcomes, helping the team generate insights and track progress.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment administration, candidate experience, and process efficiency, while helping to ensure processes remain compliant with internal policies and data protection requirements.
• Process invoices, manage spreadsheets, and book candidate travel, ensuring the smooth running of programme activity and events.

Your experience

• Experience within a busy and highly administrative role, ideally in HR in a professional services firm
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to deal with senior stakeholders
• Team player
• Ability to manage competing priorities, remaining calm under pressure
• Strong written and oral communication

Language

• Native English. Cantonese and Mandarin would be desirable.

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.