Talent Acquisition Specialist

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. Education and Qualifications: - 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) Experience - 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 utilising 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

Location: Pretoria, ZA

Posted Date: 11/6/2024