Talent Acquisition Specialist 1

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Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Opportunity

You have the opportunity to deliver a best in class candidate experience and identify talent in the

market directly. We’re looking for someone like you who has the autonomy to become a key

business partner to your stakeholders, offering advice on best practice defining a sourcing strategy

to deliver the end-to-end recruitment processes across your portfolio.

Your Key Responsibilities

You’ll spend most of your time independently driving the planning, coordination and delivery of

recruitment for a specific business area or sub service level. Partners, Directors and Senior

Managers will look to you for best practice, market knowledge and the ability to source exceptional

talent. Furthermore, you will act as an ambassador, embodying the EY culture and reputation.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Delivers appropriate recruitment plans based on knowledge of recruitment methods and
  
  

concepts

• Adds value by demonstrating a thorough understanding of trends and market knowledge of
  
  

sector using knowledge to inform actions and sourcing plans

• Demonstrates an understanding of assessment methods e.g. competency-based
  
  

interviewing, psychometric testing, technical testing and assessment centres

• Develops knowledges of the business, the external market and trends and ensures that this
  
  

knowledge is made available to the business and RBP/ team as appropriate

• Is responsive to business needs, demonstrating solutions through own actions and
  
  

proactively proposing ideas and solutions

• Advocates for D&I and reviews sourcing and attraction methods to ensure they are
  
  

attracting a diverse pool of candidates

• Demonstrates an awareness of the recruitment market – understanding the key players,
  
  

mapping of relevant markets and actively tracking careers of the people we want to hire

• Keeps abreast of market intelligence and, in particular, of key events which might indicate a
  
  

good source of resource

• Demonstrates knowledge regarding the type of measures and targets that are set for
  
  

recruitment - holds awareness of these targets while delivering work

To qualify for the Role you must have:

• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment while managing more specialist briefs
• Able to implement recruitment strategy once it is operationalised; able to identify the
  
  

recruitment implications of certain elements of the strategy

• Solid experience of recruiting direct candidates from a variety of sources - headhunting
  
  

candidates directly for vacancies, resourcing candidates from job boards, recruitment

portals etc

• Ability to quickly pick up full account management of key recruitment areas
• An advocate of KPIs
• Solid experience of direct sourcing methods
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Time and project management skills – able to plan and manage time effectively and flex up
  
  

and down to deal with key priorities

• Relationship building skills - with the ability to challenge senior management where
  
  

necessary, always acting with integrity

• Demonstrates a willingness to look beyond the task at hand and consider the broader
  
  

picture

• Demonstrates calm and objectivity when under pressure
  
  

What We Look For

You will be an experienced Recruitment Advisor with a passion for direct sourcing and desire to

provide an exceptional candidate experience. You will also work closely with Partners and Directors

across the business so the ability to build strong and effective relationships, delivering at times

difficult messages, will also be key.

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