Recruiter / Talent Acquisition - Innovative IT Consultancy

Recruiter / Talent Acquisition
£50,000 - £80,000
Soho


THE COMPANY:

Our client believes that amazing people are at the heart of amazing organisations. As the Recruiter / Talent Scout, you’ll be responsible for helping them find the hottest elite talent to expand their organisation. This leading IT Consultancy offers an innovative and positive environment in which they like to see talent developed and fully utilised. 


THE ROLE:

Sourcing:

• Advising around the uptake of social networking within our recruiting function and helping to capitalize on these tools
• Representing the organisation at events and building community. While this role is office based, you will be comfortable building a pop-up marketing stand and finding ways to have interesting conversations with potential employees at conferences, and then creating and executing a strategy to follow up with them
• Managing relationships and links with Universities to support both graduate recruitment and also other innovative mentoring, internship and sponsorship schemes
• Helping to create compelling marketing material that attracts potential candidates and develop the brand
• Making sure that the client is creating an inclusive sourcing strategy that takes extraordinary steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds

Selection:

• Reviewing resumes and reading cover letters/applications
• Being an ambassador for the organisation. Very often you’ll be the first person that someone talks, so you need to be great at understanding their motivators and matching them with the benefits of working with the company
• Selling the company to potential applicants; either through a telephone interview or a face to face meeting, you are responsible for getting people excited about joining the team and making sure that they understand company values
• Creating amazing experiences. You will make sure that potential employees are meeting the right interviewers and are well looked after at every stage of the process
• Articulating the risks and benefits of a hire. From the first time you speak with a potential employee, you are assessing their strengths and weaknesses so that the organisation can make lower-risk hiring decisions. You’ll need to be comfortable advising the MD about hiring decisions

THE PERSON:

• Have worked in an innovative, quality-focused and fast-paced recruiting environment, either in-house or in an agency environment
• Strong understanding of recruiting technology innovation, social networking and its impact on recruiting and online/offline communities
• Demonstrable ability to build and maintain strong people networks, ideally with some events and community management experience
• Great rapport building and interviewing skills
• Practising innovation. Although comfortable advertising roles on job boards and short-listing the response, you are also interested in the psychology of attracting potential employees and passionate about this.
• Passionate about recruiting, about people and about making recruitment a strategic differentiator to your employer
• Tenacious and resilient
• Creative and unafraid to try new things. Adaptable in terms of methods.
• Team player - Intuitively collaborative and able to work with all kinds of people.
• Goes the extra mile to make a candidate experience the best it can be.

 


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