The Role:  Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will work collaboratively with our hiring managers and our clients to develop a comprehensive understanding of their needs and provide first-class recruiting support and advice throughout the end-to-end hiring process to bring the best candidates to our teams and clients.

The individual will be target-driven and must be well structured and motivated, in addition to having strong verbal and written communication skills

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Talent Acquisition Specialist

Overall

• Create strategic plans for sourcing candidates with strong technical backgrounds for each role – projects engineer, support engineer, network engineer, etc.
• Identify, screen, and pre-qualify candidates for technical roles using appropriate techniques
• Proactively engage passive candidates through sourcing and pipeline building as well as adopting new sourcing channels
• Manage and drive a full recruitment cycle for various business groups, partner with hiring managers and clients, and build out and improve new and existing processes
• Work closely with hiring managers to prioritise hiring needs and build a seamless recruitment process that helps us bring the best candidates to our teams and our clients
• Own and be responsible for the recruitment process from initial candidate-contact to offer, ensuring a smooth candidate experience

Additional Duties

• Provide market intelligence and strategy expertise to business partners and hiring managers to increase recruitment results
• Operate as the authority in industry standard methodologies, assessing new trends and opportunities to consistently raise the standard
• Analyse and implement process improvements
• Report weekly on key performance metrics

Other skills and experience of Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Minimum of five years’ experience in a similar role in the recruitment for technical roles in IT (in-house or agency)
• Demonstrated working knowledge of technical concepts and language
• A team player with the necessary focus to achieve individual targets
• High degree of professionalism and strong work ethic
• The ability to succeed and deliver results in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• A passion for learning