Talent Acquisition Specialist (18 month contract)

SUMMARY:
Our client is seeking a suitably qualified, dynamic and experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist. The successful candidate will design, collaborate, and implement talent management and acquisition projects to attract, identify, develop, and retain a diverse workforce. The responsibilities include end to end recruitment to ensure high-quality hires and an exceptional candidate experience. Collaborating closely with hiring managers, the incumbent will execute effective sourcing, screening, selection, and onboarding processes.

POSITION INFO:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Utilize proactive, creative and cost-effective recruitment methods to attract and source a diverse pool of candidates, including leveraging online recruiting resources, social media, Employee Self Service.
• Continuously partner with the business, building relationships with stakeholders and collaborating with hiring managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of requirements.
• Screen resumes and interview candidates to determine applicable fit for current or future opportunities.
• Proactively identify hiring needs and design, refine and implement the recruitment strategy to fill each position in a timely manner.
• Educate and support hiring managers, enabling them to better design job descriptions, evaluate potential profiles and improve competency based interviewing
• Utilise appropriate assessment techniques to improve the selection process and ensure a focus on evidence-based decision making.
• Act as an advocate for best practice, monitoring local accountabilities to ensure ethical and transparent practices are maintained
• Ad-hoc project work to support the wider HR and business community
• Consistently drive applicants to apply for open roles using our ESS (Employee Self Service) and manage workflow on time to ensure a smooth recruiting process

• Bachelor degree in Business or Industrial Psychology, ideally with a professional qualifications in the HR field.
• 5 to 8 years’ experience in Human Resources management or related field
• Experience in full cycle recruitment in various functions and business lines, from blue collar, skilled trades and professional & leadership searches.
• Expert knowledge in utilizing external sources such as search engines, job boards, social media tools (e.g., LinkedIn) to identify candidates
• Excellent engagement skills as an experienced business partner across wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills to include verbal and written
• Extensive experience writing appealing candidate centric job postings and messaging
• Proficiency with Office 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Exposure to business stakeholders at all levels, designing bespoke recruitment Ad hoc action plan to resolve specific requirements.
• Experience with various direct sourcing techniques, including knowledge of job posting and searching through professional platforms such as LinkedIn.
• Ideally an experience utalising various assessment methodologies including competency based interviewing, role play and group assessment centre design, aptitude and psychometric profiling tools.
• Competent using in-house applicant tracking systems, Ideally Workday

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