Recruiting Operations Assistant

Latham & Watkins

Recruiting Operations Assistant in Latham's Business Services Recruiting team. Responsible for transactional recruiting requests and ensuring smooth candidate transitions post-offer.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $60,000 - $70,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ServiceNow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Facilitating and monitoring the US offer and post-offer process, ensuring execution, adherence to region-specific protocols, and timely completion of all offer and post-offer related tasks
Completing recruiting requests, including but not limited to creating job postings, setting up on-demand video interviews, and answering referral inquires via the case management system, ServiceNow
Ensuring recruiting requests are completed from an open to closed status, meeting all deadlines, promptly actioning requests, clearly understanding client requests, providing timely updates, and accurately executing requests via the case management system, ServiceNow
Responding to all BSR requests, prioritizing requests accordingly, and escalating complex queries appropriately within the Transactions team and/or the BSR Operations vertical
Assisting with all phases of the global recruiting process, including managing correspondence with candidates, clients, and BSR team members
Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Requirements

What you’ll need

A high school diploma or equivalent, with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably
A minimum of one (1) year of experience in an administrative role
Experience in operations or recruitment, preferably
Familiarity with shared services platforms and applicant tracking systems, preferably

Benefits

Comp & perks

Healthcare, life and disability insurance
A generous 401k plan
At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
Professional development programs
Employee discounts
Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

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Hard Skills & Tools

Administrative SkillsRecruitment ExperienceJob Posting CreationVideo Interview SetupRequest Management

Soft Skills

Timely CommunicationPrioritizationAttention to Detail