Senior Associate - Early Careers Recruiter Ernst & Young AE

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, Yello, 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.