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Early Career Talent Specialist

Lockton
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/3/2026
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.

Check out Lockton Benefits Offerings Here

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

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