Senior Associate - Early Careers Recruiter - UAE (Emirati National)

Overview

The Opportunity

Campus Recruitment Consultant

Your Key Responsibilities

• 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 and Yello.
• 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

What We Offer You