Graduate Recruitment / Early Careers Consultant

Your role

As part of our Early Careers team based in Melbourne, you'll help shape the future of the firm by attracting, engaging, and developing the next generation of talent. You'll work closely with partners, lawyers, and business teams to deliver market-leading recruitment and development experiences that identify high-performing students and support them to launch their careers at Allens.

This is a role for someone who enjoys taking ownership, building strong relationships and bringing ideas to life. You'll be trusted with meaningful responsibility from day one, supported by a collaborative team and encouraged to contribute new thinking as we continue to evolve our programs and candidate experience.

As an Early Careers Consultant you will:

• Partner with stakeholders across the firm to attract, engage, select and onboard future talent.

• Represent Allens  as a brand ambassador, building relationships with universities and student communities through careers fairs, presentations and firm events.

• Work closely with partners, lawyers and business teams to deliver engaging recruitment, development and networking opportunities for students.

• Design and deliver market-leading engagement programs, including Dive In, helping high-performing students explore a career in commercial law.

• Lead elements of our social media and attraction strategy, bringing creativity, curiosity and new ideas to how we engage emerging talent.

• Design, project manage and deliver clerkship and graduate recruitment campaigns and development programs.

• Identify and building relationships with emerging talent, providing exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey

• Use data, insights, and technology to continuously improve our processes, programs and outcomes

This is a full-time maximum term contract for an initial period of 12 months to cover parental leave.

At Allens we have a hybrid working structure, typically 60% in the office and 40% from home. We would be happy to discuss any other flexible working arrangements that best support you.

About you

You will thrive in this role if you're someone who combines strong relationship-building skills with initiative, curiosity and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes. You'll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintain strong focus on stakeholder and candidate experience.

You will bring:

• Experience in Early Careers recruitment, ideally within a law firm, professional services, or a similarly complex environment.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build credibility and influence senior stakeholders

• Excellent collaboration skills and experience working across multiple teams and functions

• Sound judgement, problem-solving skills and a willingness to take ownership and drive outcomes

• Confidence using technology and data to work smarter and deliver better outcomes

• A genuine passion for candidate experience and developing future talent

• A desire and ability to grow as a recruitment and HR professional.

• A desire to learn, grow, network, mentor others.

Your development

At Allens, we set a high bar for excellence and provide the support people need to grow. You'll have access to meaningful work, real responsibility and opportunities to build your capability through coaching, feedback and development experiences.

You'll be encouraged to take ownership of your career, explore new opportunities and continually develop your skills, judgement and confidence. Working alongside experienced colleagues and leaders, you'll be supported to expand your expertise and make a meaningful contribution from day one.

Our perks

Our benefits include:

• Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration; salary continuance insurance, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.

• Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, emergency childcare, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.

• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.

• Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible parental leave policy – 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.

• Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

How to apply?

We'd love to hear from you so please click "apply now"! If you would like to find out more, please visit 'This is Allens' or listen to our podcast 'Allens Confidential' to hear real stories from real people about life at Allens. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please get in touch with Priyanka Krishnan-D'Souza, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant on +61 3 9613 8835.

At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements. If you require adjustments to fully participate in our application process, please contact us at [email protected]. 

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align, please express your interest by emailing us at [email protected]. The right role for you might be just around the corner!