Early Career Recruiter

The Early Career Recruiter will manage full-cycle recruiting while supporting university relationships, campus and virtual recruiting events, internship programming, recruitment marketing, skills-based hiring, and intern-to-full-time conversion efforts. This role will also use recruiting data and market insights to continuously improve hiring outcomes and the candidate experience. 

What you’ll be doing 

Your essential responsibilities will include: 

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for internship, graduate, and entry-level opportunities across multiple business functions, including intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate assessment, offer management, and hiring. 
• Partner with hiring managers, HR Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition colleagues to understand current and future workforce needs and develop skills-based recruiting strategies aligned with business priorities. 
• Build and maintain relationships with colleges and universities, career centers, faculty, student organizations, and other external partners to develop sustainable early career talent pipelines. 
• Plan and participate in career fairs, information sessions, networking events, campus activities, conferences, and virtual recruiting events while representing AXA XL and its career opportunities. 
• Develop sourcing and candidate engagement strategies using platforms such as Handshake, LinkedIn, employee networks, university partnerships, and other appropriate recruiting channels. 
• Support internship and early career programs throughout the program lifecycle, including recruitment, preboarding and onboarding, manager engagement, intern programming, feedback, evaluation, and conversion planning. 
• Apply structured, skills-based interviewing and assessment practices and provide hiring teams with guidance and resources that support consistent and equitable candidate evaluation. 
• Partner with internal stakeholders on recruitment marketing and employer brand initiatives designed to increase awareness of AXA XL and career opportunities within the insurance industry. 
• Track and analyze recruiting and program metrics, including pipeline activity, campaign and event effectiveness, offer acceptance, candidate experience, internship conversion, and hiring outcomes, using insights to identify opportunities for improvement. 
• Maintain accurate recruiting records and candidate information in applicable recruiting systems and support compliance with company policies, data privacy requirements, and applicable employment regulations. 
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across Early Careers and Talent Acquisition by identifying opportunities to improve processes, technology, candidate communications, stakeholder resources, and ways of working. 

You will report to a Senior Recruiter. 

What you will BRING 

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: 

Required Skills and Abilities: 

• Talent Acquisition: Experience supporting full-cycle recruiting activities, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate assessment, offer management, and hiring. Early career, university, campus, or high-volume recruiting experience is beneficial. 
• Relationship Management: Demonstrated ability to establish productive working relationships with hiring managers, candidates, HR colleagues, educational institutions, and other internal and external partners. 
• Communication: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across different audiences through candidate conversations, presentations, meetings, written communications, recruitment marketing, and recruiting events. 
• Project Management: Ability to coordinate multiple recruiting processes, events, timelines, requisitions, and stakeholders while maintaining accuracy and meeting established deadlines. 
• Candidate Assessment: Understanding of structured interviewing and skills-based or competency-based assessment practices that support consistent evaluation of candidates. 
• Recruiting Technology: Experience using applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, recruiting platforms, or related HR technology. Experience with platforms such as Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, Handshake, or comparable systems is beneficial. 
• Data-Informed Decision Making: Ability to use recruiting metrics and talent market information to evaluate recruiting activity, identify trends, and recommend improvements. 
• Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, university recruiting, program management, or a related area. 

Desired Skills and Abilities: 

• Early Career Recruitment: Experience supporting internship, graduate, apprentice, rotational, development program, or entry-level hiring. 
• University Relations: Experience developing relationships with colleges, universities, student organizations, career centers, or other organizations that support early talent pipelines. 
• Event & Program Management: Experience planning or supporting career fairs, campus events, information sessions, networking programs, intern events, or similar talent engagement activities. 
• Stakeholder Consulting: Ability to provide hiring managers and HR partners with recruiting insights, talent market information, and recommendations that support informed hiring decisions. 
• Recruitment Marketing: Experience using social media, talent communities, employee networks, university partnerships, or similar channels to engage prospective candidates. 
• Continuous Improvement: Ability to evaluate recruiting processes and candidate experiences and identify practical opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency. 
• Collaboration: Ability to work across teams, business functions, and geographic locations and contribute effectively in a collaborative environment. 
• Insurance or Financial Services Knowledge: Previous recruiting or HR experience within insurance, financial services, professional services, or another complex corporate organization is beneficial but not required.   

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com.

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.   At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at Inclusion & Diversity at AXA XL | AXA XL. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides enterprising compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action:  We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see Sustainability at AXA XL.

Applicants for this role must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

The U.S. base salary range for this position is USD 76,300 – 108,700.   

Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.

At AXA XL, we know how important physical, mental, and financial health are to our employees, which is why we are proud to offer benefits such as an enterprising retirement savings plan, health and wellness programs, and many other benefits. We also believe in fostering our colleagues' development and offer a wide range of learning opportunities for colleagues to hone their professional skills and to position themselves for the next step of their careers. For more details about AXA XL’s benefits offerings, please visit US Benefits at a Glance 2026.