Recruitment Assistant - Early Talent (Placement Student)

This role is designed specifically for undergraduate students seeking a placement year or industrial placement as part of their degree programme.

Our Recruitment & Resourcing (R&R) team currently includes 12 collaborative professionals, all sitting within the wider People Team, which is made up of over 40 friendly, dedicated colleagues. Together, we support the firm across five key areas: Recruitment & Resourcing, Human Resources, People Analytics, Talent Development, and People Business Partnering. ​

Within our R&R team, we have 3 professionals focused on attracting, assessing and onboarding approximately 110 trainees per year, in addition to coordinating our work experience, internship and school outreach activities. In July 2026, we’ll be looking for our next placement student, to work closely with our Early Talent Advisor and Senior Advisor, to play a critical role to support the end-to-end early talent recruitment process. ​

This is a hands‑on, fast‑paced role involving high volumes of application screening, virtual interview reviews, inbox management and onboarding administration. Alongside this, you’ll also have the opportunity to support strategic projects that enhance candidate experience, improve operational efficiency, and develop our early talent offerings — including work experience, internships and EDI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing queries within the shared recruitment inbox, responding to incoming queries in a timely manner.​

• Reviewing and scoring applications within our application tracking system – we receive approximately 15,000 a year. ​

• Reviewing and scoring virtual interviews in HireVue. ​

• Scheduling final interviews, by working with teams across the business to obtain availability, coordinate invites and make room bookings.​

• Coordinating the onboarding of new joiners, by preparing and issuing new starter documents and contracts.​

• Support planning of trainee pre-joining activities.​

• Updating and maintaining accurate data in the application tracking system.​

• Coordinating interview expenses details, to arrange reimbursement with the Finance Team. ​

• Supporting online and on-campus events to represent the firm and raise awareness of opportunities within the sector and firm. ​

• Ad-hoc task, event and project support.

Role Requirements

This 12-month placement is for undergraduate students, looking to complete a placement to complement their degree. Students applying should be on-track for a 2:1 or above, and demonstrate the following skills:​

• Strong team orientated, collaborative approach.​

• Excellent administrative and organisational skills with the ability to progress multiple tasks

• simultaneously, prioritise workload and maintain accurate data. ​

• Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced environment, whilst maintaining attention to detail. ​

• A confident communicator, able to deal comfortably and credibly with staff at all levels, both internally and externally​

• Takes ownership of own workload and development​

• Professional and confident with a positive, can-do attitude

About Moore Kingston Smith

At Moore Kingston Smith, we believe in the potential of people to make a positive impact, fuelled by the power of genuine understanding.

Working with small, medium and large clients, we are a multi-disciplinary advisory, tax and audit firm with expertise across multiple sectors, uniquely positioned to help people realise their ambitions.

Our London and regional teams deliver quality results locally and nationally, and worldwide alongside the Moore Global network.

Through respect, collaboration and active listening, understanding is at the heart of everything we do with our clients, colleagues and communities. We value people and projects that promote positive change for the future.

Come and join us to make a difference.