Recruiter (Early Careers)

In a nutshell

This is your chance to directly shape the experience of early talent joining PKF Francis Clark. As an Early Careers Resourcing Specialist, you’ll play a hands‑on role in attracting, engaging and assessing the next generation through inclusive campaigns, well‑run assessment centres, and strong relationships with education partners.

Working part of a high-performing team, you’ll support high‑volume recruitment cycles, coordinate outreach activity, and use data and feedback to enhance how we attract and select emerging talent. You’ll be a trusted point of contact for candidates, hiring managers and external partners, ensuring fair, consistent and well‑organised recruitment processes.

Because this role is highly visible and relationship‑driven, you’ll regularly travel to schools, colleges, universities and our offices across the region, representing the firm, strengthening partnerships and supporting in‑person events.

What you’ll be doing day to day

• Delivering end‑to‑end support across early talent recruitment programmes, from attraction through to onboarding
• Coordinating assessment centres and selection activities, ensuring they are fair, inclusive and strengths‑based
• Supporting and delivering outreach campaigns and employer brand activity in collaboration with the Early Careers Manager and Marketing
• Building and maintaining trusted working relationships with hiring managers, candidates and education partners
• Managing candidate communication and ensuring a high‑quality experience at every stage
• Supporting early careers pipeline activity and contributing to inclusion and widening‑participation initiatives
• Using recruitment systems and data to track activity, monitor progress and suggest improvements
• Ensuring compliance with process, policy and employment legislation, escalating risks where needed
• Proactively identifying opportunities to streamline, improve or modernise early careers processes
• Representing the firm at careers fairs, insight days and schools/college engagement events

About you

• Experience in early careers, graduate or high-volume recruitment, or a strong interest in developing within this specialism
• Understanding of inclusive hiring and strengths‑based assessment approaches
• Confident coordinating candidate journeys in high‑volume or cyclical campaigns
• Able to build trusted relationships quickly with students, education partners and internal colleagues
• Strong communicator—clear, approachable and able to tailor messages to different audiences
• Comfortable analysing data and feedback to help drive improvement
• Highly organised, proactive and able to manage competing deadlines
• A natural ambassador for fairness, inclusion and transparency
• Comfortable with regular travel across the region to support events and relationship‑building
• Hold a full, clean driving licence and have access to a car insured for business use

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.

Additional information 

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