Location: Swindon Hybrid, client site x 3 days per week
Working Hours/Shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours/week
Employment Type: Permanent, start date 21st July
Join our World of Talent.
Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.
Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.
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The Role
Talent Acquisition Specialists play a key role in our clients’ success by partnering with Hiring Managers and Recruiters and developing effective, consultative, professional relationships with them.
Through asking the right questions to ensure a detailed understanding of the client and each role, and by leveraging data, historic hiring trends and market analysis, you will develop bespoke sourcing strategies and then use a range of tools and techniques to find the best talent in the market. You will be brand ambassadors for our clients, bringing each opportunity to life with candidates in a compelling and authentic way to ensure candidates are qualified, interested and engaged before being presented to the Hiring Manager.
You will support the clients in hiring specialist and niche talent and will work on some of the more complex hiring needs that require strong business partnering skills and innovative approaches to finding and engaging with in demand candidates.
Key Accountabilities
What you’ll be doing:
Act as a Trusted Adviser
* Work with Recruiters to develop partnerships and working relationships that deliver a great candidate and hiring manager experience
* You will leverage your existing experience, knowledge, and resources whilst also working with experts in sourcing and talent intelligence to develop effective sourcing strategies that enable you to deliver great candidates and lead and influence conversations with your hiring managers
* Provide subject matter expertise, thought leadership and talent intelligence in recruitment discussions and vacancy briefing calls with Hiring Managers
* Show tact and confidence in talking to client stakeholders. Ensure you’re leveraging your knowledge and wider AMS network to propose solutions that deliver the right results for your clients and AMS
* Be accountable for the delivery of high quality candidate shortlists to your Hiring Managers with accurate and complete information to help them make informed hiring decisions
* Work with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to understand and share candidate feedback, challenges, and successes, advocating potential solutions and making recommendations to inform and adapt the recruitment strategy
Attract, source & engage high calibre talent.
* Demonstrate innovative, critical thinking and a commitment to ongoing professional development within your role
* Review and post compelling, accurate job adverts that amplify your client’s brand and attract candidates to review and apply
* Use your knowledge and established network at AMS to develop a sourcing strategy that uses the right channels to attract, and engage with your target audience e.g., LinkedIn or other social media tools
* Understand and utilise data to measure the success of your sourcing strategy, review, refine, innovate, and adapt your approach as required
* Engage with your target audience in a professional and authentic way and communicate effectively using various channels e.g., email, LinkedIn, social media and over the phone. Expect to headhunt niche talent regularly for specialist hiring needs
* Have high quality, consultative conversations with your candidates, qualifying their suitability for current or future roles
* Gain insight into candidate skills, background, behaviours, career aspirations and motivations and use this to make informed selection decisions
* Support candidates keeping them up to date as they progress through the recruitment process. Actively work with your candidates to talent pool them and create lasting relationships that enables you to re-engage them to support future hiring needs
* Present candidates to clients in an accurate and compelling way. Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to ensure that you’re continually considering diverse pools of talent and advocating for selection decisions and processes that are free from bias
* Track progress, data, and performance on all applicable systems
Value Candidate Experience
* Champion your candidates. Have honest, quality career discussions that assess candidate suitability for each role and bring your client’s brand to life so that candidates feel excited at the prospect of joining them
* Demonstrate a commitment to your candidates so that they feel valued throughout the recruitment process. Keep them updated and informed, following up with Recruiters and Hiring Managers when needed
* Build lasting relationships with candidates so they become client advocates, irrespective of hiring outcomes
Skills & Experience
You’ll need to demonstrate:
Must haves
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to build great relationships and partner somewhat independently with clients and candidates. Clear, engaging and professional in written communications with the ability to digest, retain and utilise information to influence others
* Demonstrable subject matter expertise in sourcing with the ability to use data and in-depth market knowledge to inform sourcing strategies and create and adapt detailed sourcing plans to fill specialist and niche hiring needs
* Experience in passive sourcing using a broad range of techniques and technologies including Boolean and LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut and in house ATS or CRM technologies
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities in a demanding environment
* Experience of using a range of tools and systems including in house Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. Competent and confident in using MS Office, Windows and/or other similar products and confident using the internet to research and find information to design more impactful sourcing strategies
* Experience working to Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreements
Nice to have
* Specialist sourcing experience with a focus on attracting and engaging niche, passive talent
* Experience working in an RPO role focussed on talent acquisition, candidate management and sourcing
* Tech sourcing experience
Other
Why AMS?
At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.
We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.
We offer:
* Full training and support
* High value and challenging work
* A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
* Flexible working
* A competitive reward and benefits package*
* The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies
*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.
Our culture of inclusion and belonging.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.
If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.
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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.
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