Members of the SRA, which was launched last month by international law firm Clifford Chance and UK communications agency Blackbridge, commit to three core pledges:

• We will review our early talent recruitment, identifying opportunities to cut waste and make carbon savings
• We will reduce accordingly, taking real and measurable action to ensure the sustainability of anything we do in the early talent space
• We will report our activities annually to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance allowing them to build an impact report

Arthur Cox has previously implemented a number of measures to improve environmental sustainability, including producing a digital-only version of its graduate recruitment brochure to dispense with the printed brochures traditionally used at recruitment fairs.

Laura Yeates, head of graduate talent at Clifford Chance and the driving force behind the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance, said: “Organisations have been doing some exceptional work in the area of sustainable recruiting, but very often, it’s gone under the radar.

“The Sustainable Recruitment Alliance enables us to shine a light on best practices and create momentum around reviewing, reducing and reporting in the world of early talent. The magic will really come when we start to report on our aggregated data as an industry after the first year and realise the power of our collective movement.”