Junior Recruiter

Your Team Responsibilities

MSCI is looking for a Junior Recruiter to join our growing team in Budapest. This is an excellent opportunity for someone eager to grow their career in recruitment. You will begin by focusing on sourcing top talent, building strong pipelines, and supporting strategic hiring initiatives. Over time, you will gain hands-on experience and have the opportunity to take ownership of roles, progressing into full-cycle recruitment.

In this role, you will support both technology and non-technology hiring across Budapest and continental Europe, playing a key part in attracting, sourcing, and onboarding exceptional talent. Your contributions will directly support MSCI’s ambitious growth plans and long-term talent goals.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end recruitment activities (sourcing, screening, and assessment) while aligning with MSCI’s global practices.
• Actively build and maintain talent pipelines for both technology and non-technology roles across EMEA, ensuring all candidate data is accurately updated in our CRM system.
• Partner with team members to identify and engage passive candidates through job boards, sourcing tools, and social media platforms.
• Provide a seamless and positive experience for candidates, ensuring strong candidate management skills are applied throughout the recruitment process.
• Conduct market mapping to identify key talent pools, track industry trends, and provide insights that inform recruitment strategies.
• Embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) principles into all recruitment strategies and processes.
• Learn and adapt to market trends and regional hiring needs to create relevant recruitment strategies.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Strong communication and candidate management skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated mindset, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Some experience with sourcing tools, job boards, or social media platforms to engage passive talent.
• Interest in building a career in recruitment with a focus on both technology and non-technology roles.
• A data-driven approach to decision-making is a plus.

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

To all recruitment agencies

MSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location, or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes.

Note on recruitment scams

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