Early Career Talent Specialist

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St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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Early Career Talent Specialist

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St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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Human Resources

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Working at Lockton

At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.

Business unit

Midwest Series

Salary

$65,000-$85,000

Schedule

Full-time

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Workplace

Hybrid

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Your Responsibilities

As an Early Career Talent Specialist at Lockton, you will play a key role in attracting, engaging, and hiring top early-career talent to support the company’s growth and future leadership pipeline. This position focuses on building strong relationships with a wide variety of candidates, and internal stakeholders to deliver a best-in-class experience. You will manage full-cycle recruitment for entry-level roles, partner with hiring managers to understand talent needs, and assist with campus recruiting strategies that align with Lockton’s culture and business objectives. The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and passionate about connecting emerging professionals with meaningful career opportunities.
 

Responsibilities:
•    Source, attract and hire top early-career talent from colleges, professional websites, job boards, student organizations and internal Associate referrals.
•    Work with the Lockton early career team to help develop relationships with targeted colleges and universities throughout the Midwest Series’ geographies to promote recruitment for internships, entry-level, and early career positions.
•    Build trusting and collaborative relationships with internal teams and leadership.
•    Expand talent pipelines through execution of tactical research, passive sourcing campaigns, and campus marketing.
•    Review applications, screen for minimum requirements, provide referral to and collaborate with interview teams.
•    Facilitate requisite testing and sharing of results with hiring teams.
•    Track, measure, and report on recruiting activity to evaluate success of recruitment strategies.
•    Build name recognition with consistent Lockton branding to promote the organization as an employer of choice and early-career talent.
•    Work closely with the early career recruiting team and Lockton Recruiting Ambassadors to host campus events and presentations
•    Share and promote activities on social media through story-telling and effective messaging
•    Actively participate and contribute to process improvement strategies, projects, and initiatives

Compensation and Benefits

Lockton Companies LLC is committed to offering competitive pay and benefits and complies with all relevant state/local pay transparency laws. The entry base salary offered for this opportunity may vary, and is contingent upon candidate education, skills, abilities, essential competencies, experience, professional designations, unique qualifications, and geographic location.

Performance Bonus: This role may be eligible for an annual performance bonus, based upon the financial performance of the organization and the individual contributions of the Associate.

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Qualifications

•    2+ years of experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, or college admissions
•    Willing to travel up to 20% of the time during college recruiting season (September-November; February-April)
•    Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
•    Outgoing professional who is adaptable, independent, self-starter, creative, resourceful, organized and naturally curious.
•    Ability to energize candidates and effectively promote Lockton as an employer of choice in the industry.
•    Prior event planning experience preferred
•    Track record for successfully researching, sourcing, and identifying high-potential talent.
•    Direct experience with Applicant Tracking Systems preferred.
•    Demonstrated presence and engagement on Handshake, LinkedIn and other relevant recruiting platforms.
•    Comfortable working with multiple business units throughout the Midwest to trusted relationships.
•    Relationship Building Skills - Manage relationships with assigned campuses, offices, candidates, and pipeline
•    Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
•    Creative thinker and problem solver; Willingness to step out of your comfort zone
•    Highly adaptable - Willing to try new things and open to change
•    Legally able to work in the United States

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.

About Lockton

Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 13,100+ Associates doing business in over 155 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.

At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.

How We Will Support You

At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.

We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.

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Any Employment Agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of Lockton Companies, Inc. Lockton Companies will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting Employment Agency, person or entity. Employment Agencies, who have fee Agreements with Lockton Companies must submit applicants to the designated Lockton Companies Employment Coordinator to be eligible for placement fees.

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