Campus Talent Attraction Consultant [Temporary 18 Months]
Top Benefits
About the role
Who We Are You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.
What’s in this opportunity for you? You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate as a key member of a high performing and award-winning Talent Attraction team that has your back. You’ll be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to step outside of your comfort zone and embrace new challenges. You’ll be a true business advisor and work with leadership teams to strategically impact our organization. You’ll be part of an inclusive, engaged purpose driven team that actively shares leadership. It’s a chance to tap into your knowledge, passion and deep experience. You can contribute meaningfully to our purpose to help our clients, colleagues and communities thrive.
As a Campus Recruitment Consultant (Event Planning/Marketing), your responsibilities will include: Talent Attraction
- Recruit top talent for campus new grad/co-op positions at post secondary institutions across Canada
- Build and maintain relationships with local stakeholders
- Act as the primary point of contact for local campus teams, post-secondary institutions and student associations; be the go-to for campus recruitment in Southern Ontario
- Strategically manage sponsorship opportunities with target schools and relevant student associations
- Provide regular reports on relevant KPI’s
- Schedule virtual and/or in-person interviews in conjunction with local team members
- Screen campus applications & digital interviews
- Distribute campus job postings to local post-secondary institutions, student associations and applicable job boards
- Build and maintain a pipeline of candidates for future job openings
- Actively seek opportunities to keep Doane GT at top of mind for students and career centres
Event planning & logistics
- Lead the planning and execution of campus recruitment events both external and internal (in-person & virtual) across Canada
- Coordinate event logistics including booking facilities, planning, and executing
- Research and recommend vendors for event-related needs
- Co-ordinate internal representatives to attend events and represent the brand
- Connect with career centres at schools across Canada to create contact lists, collect relevant information, and ship materials as required
- Create and track lists of campaign participants based on location and event
- Create email templates & surveys to be distributed to virtual networking event attendees
- Assist with the preparation and distribution of materials for campus interviewing across local region
Social Media & Marketing
- Assist with the creation, promotion and scheduling of social media campaigns (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)
- Monitor social media sites to engage with followers & respond to online inquiries
Doane Grant Thornton If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Doane Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens!
Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Campus Recruitment Consultant (Event Planning/Marketing)? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
- Completed university degree or diploma in Business, Event Management, Marketing or related field
- 4+ years of campus recruitment and/or event execution experience
- Proven ability to build relationships and work with cross-functional teams to help achieve organizational goals
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to assume, prioritize, and execute multiple deliverables
- Ability to take initiative and operate in a self-directed and results-oriented manner
- Prior experience with social media (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok)
- Flexibility in approaching tasks/projects and able to quickly shift focus and priorities as needed
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Access to a vehicle is required - travel within Southern Ontario is essential in this role.
At Doane Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.
What's in it for you? Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more!
Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week. Are you ready to Discover Your Purple? Doane Grant Thornton is committed to employment equity, human rights and respectful workplace principles throughout the life cycle of employment, including at the recruitment and hiring stages. We welcome applications from members of all equity deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, women, racialized and/or Indigenous applicants. Should you require accommodation in relation to the recruitment process, please notify us by emailing and we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs.
About Doane Grant Thornton LLP
Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax.
Our unique, purpose-driven culture has resulted in consistent recognition as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute since 2008. As bold leaders in our chosen markets and within the professional services industry, we are committed to our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility.
Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd., whose member firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide.
Campus Talent Attraction Consultant [Temporary 18 Months]
Top Benefits
About the role
Who We Are You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.
What’s in this opportunity for you? You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate as a key member of a high performing and award-winning Talent Attraction team that has your back. You’ll be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to step outside of your comfort zone and embrace new challenges. You’ll be a true business advisor and work with leadership teams to strategically impact our organization. You’ll be part of an inclusive, engaged purpose driven team that actively shares leadership. It’s a chance to tap into your knowledge, passion and deep experience. You can contribute meaningfully to our purpose to help our clients, colleagues and communities thrive.
As a Campus Recruitment Consultant (Event Planning/Marketing), your responsibilities will include: Talent Attraction
- Recruit top talent for campus new grad/co-op positions at post secondary institutions across Canada
- Build and maintain relationships with local stakeholders
- Act as the primary point of contact for local campus teams, post-secondary institutions and student associations; be the go-to for campus recruitment in Southern Ontario
- Strategically manage sponsorship opportunities with target schools and relevant student associations
- Provide regular reports on relevant KPI’s
- Schedule virtual and/or in-person interviews in conjunction with local team members
- Screen campus applications & digital interviews
- Distribute campus job postings to local post-secondary institutions, student associations and applicable job boards
- Build and maintain a pipeline of candidates for future job openings
- Actively seek opportunities to keep Doane GT at top of mind for students and career centres
Event planning & logistics
- Lead the planning and execution of campus recruitment events both external and internal (in-person & virtual) across Canada
- Coordinate event logistics including booking facilities, planning, and executing
- Research and recommend vendors for event-related needs
- Co-ordinate internal representatives to attend events and represent the brand
- Connect with career centres at schools across Canada to create contact lists, collect relevant information, and ship materials as required
- Create and track lists of campaign participants based on location and event
- Create email templates & surveys to be distributed to virtual networking event attendees
- Assist with the preparation and distribution of materials for campus interviewing across local region
Social Media & Marketing
- Assist with the creation, promotion and scheduling of social media campaigns (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)
- Monitor social media sites to engage with followers & respond to online inquiries
Doane Grant Thornton If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Doane Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens!
Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Campus Recruitment Consultant (Event Planning/Marketing)? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
- Completed university degree or diploma in Business, Event Management, Marketing or related field
- 4+ years of campus recruitment and/or event execution experience
- Proven ability to build relationships and work with cross-functional teams to help achieve organizational goals
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to assume, prioritize, and execute multiple deliverables
- Ability to take initiative and operate in a self-directed and results-oriented manner
- Prior experience with social media (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok)
- Flexibility in approaching tasks/projects and able to quickly shift focus and priorities as needed
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Access to a vehicle is required - travel within Southern Ontario is essential in this role.
At Doane Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.
What's in it for you? Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more!
Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week. Are you ready to Discover Your Purple? Doane Grant Thornton is committed to employment equity, human rights and respectful workplace principles throughout the life cycle of employment, including at the recruitment and hiring stages. We welcome applications from members of all equity deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, women, racialized and/or Indigenous applicants. Should you require accommodation in relation to the recruitment process, please notify us by emailing and we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs.
About Doane Grant Thornton LLP
Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax.
Our unique, purpose-driven culture has resulted in consistent recognition as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute since 2008. As bold leaders in our chosen markets and within the professional services industry, we are committed to our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility.
Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd., whose member firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide.