Senior Associate - Early Careers Recruiter

Overview

• Partner with business stakeholders and service lines to understand workforce needs, hiring targets, timelines, and ideal candidate profiles across assigned MENA locations.
• Design and deliver data-driven campus recruitment strategies aligned to business priorities, nationalization agendas, and regional talent market insights.
• Own the
• end-to-end recruitment lifecycle
• for interns and graduates, including attraction, sourcing, screening, assessments, interviews, offers, and pre-joining experience.
• Lead and continuously enhance the internship program, with a strong focus on candidate experience and
• conversion to graduate hiring
• .
• Advise the business on best-in-class recruitment approaches, target universities, offer strategy, and market competitiveness.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with universities, academic faculty, career services teams, student societies, and other key campus stakeholders across MENA.
• Partner with Recruitment and Employer Branding teams to design and deliver targeted attraction, sourcing, and engagement campaigns.
• Plan and deliver campus events and initiatives such as career fairs, EY insight sessions, workshops, assessment centres, and networking events (virtual and in-person).
• Deliver engaging presentations and workshops to students, graduates, and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate online assessments, assessment centres, and interview processes, ensuring fairness, consistency, and a seamless candidate experience.
• Use recruitment data and insights to track progress against hiring targets, identify risks, and continuously improve recruitment outcomes.
• Maintain accurate and compliant candidate records within recruitment systems and contribute to ongoing process improvement initiatives.

Skills

• and attributes for success
• A consultative mindset with the ability to influence and partner confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of campus recruitment, early careers hiring, and talent market dynamics.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities across locations.
• A creative, strategic, and commercially aware approach to problem solving.
• Confidence representing EY as an employer of choice on campus and in the market.
• Ideally, you ll also
• Have experience managing assessment centres and administering online assessment tools.
• Be comfortable handling large data sets and generating insights using Excel and MS Office.
• Have exposure to Recruitment Management Systems such as

SuccessFactors

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• smart recruiters.
• Have experience delivering
• end-to-end recruitment
• across attraction, sourcing, screening, assessment, interviewing, and offering.
• Bring experience working across multiple geographies or within a regional recruitment model.
• What we look for
• We re interested in recruitment professionals who combine
• creative thinking with disciplined execution
• .
• You re proactive, comfortable with autonomy, and motivated by building long-term relationships, improving processes, and creating meaningful early-career opportunities across the region.