Associate - Talent Acquisition for a leading Investment Management MNC
Recruiting and Sourcing:
- Lead the end to end recruitment efforts across all levels focusing on IT/Tech roles.
- Provide proactive communication throughout the process for both candidates and hiring leaders
- Responsible for delivering "high touch" excellent customer service throughout the recruitment cycle.
- Utilizes internal and external sources to develop candidate leads and stays current with industry market information.
- Provide a more hands-on approach and offer more options/solutions, know how to flex, customizing service based on the needs of hiring leaders
- Ensures compliance with company policy and guidelines
- Establishes and maintains effective business relationships with various recruitment sources, including executive search firms and placement agencies in order to generate and maintain a qualified, diverse applicant pool
- Influence candidates to see company's EVPs by promoting the brand and values with all professional interactions
- Provide expertise to Talent Acquisition programs and initiatives such as university relations, diversity recruiting, and community outreach.
Opportunistic Sourcing:
- Partner with hiring leaders to understand their talent needs of the business and create an effective search plan to fill open positions and build candidate pipelines.
- Create a pipeline of prequalified candidates for current and future positions with the goal of decreasing time to fill and use of external agencies
- Create and implement effective passive candidate generation approaches to market our opportunities, attract talent, and build communities that produce best-fit candidates
- Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, and other recruiting activities
- Track sourcing activity and communicates any relevant market information to the hiring manager
- Conduct market analysis and industry research to inform and develop sourcing plan.
Client and Candidate Partnerships:
- Serve as a consultative TA partner to influence and drive business results through recruitment activities.
- Partners with hiring leaders and HR colleagues to drive recruiting strategies for open positions at all levels.
- Ensures alignment of recruiting activities with business goals and objectives.
- Proactively share innovative solutions to add value, anticipate needs, and streamline process.
- Have a deep understanding of strategic business priorities.
Recruiting Data and Intelligence:
- Share current recruitment market intelligence and trends with hiring leaders and to set realistic expectations.
- Keeps the business up to date throughout the cycle on key metrics to present that information in a way that is accurate, up to date, and usable by the stakeholders.
- Research and gather market intelligence. Understand and execute against shifts in the marketplace that present recruiting opportunities.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
- Masters degree in HR related field or equivalent preferred
- Minimum 8 years of recruitment experience and at least 4 years in IT hiring.
- Experience recruiting for financial services. Asset management would be highly desirable.
- Hands-on experience with sourcing techniques (e.g. recruiting on various social platforms and crafting Boolean search strings)
- Strong Knowledge of the India market
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
- Strong verbal and communications skills
- Ability to think out of the box and has a creative mindset
- Excellent interpersonal skills and able to engage with various functions and seniority
- Good team player, able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and teams