talent advisor.

Job title: Talent Advisor/Talent Advisor Esp

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Scope

Strategic and consultative partner to our Client’s Key Stakeholders and Hiring Managers with the responsibility of developing a talent strategy that best suits the customer needs and market conditions. The position is ultimately responsible for the fulfilment of requisitions

Main accountabilities

Communication & Relationship. Key activities:

• Provides timely and useful follow up feedback to candidates on interview results
• Uses of influence and persuasion to sell candidate on employment opportunities
• Extends offers and negotiates to final acceptance of offer, if applies
• Interfaces and develops strong relationships with client partners as a hiring consultant and provides innovative solutions to solve recruiting challenges and influence hiring decisions
• Promotes positive relationships and strong partnerships to protect the candidate experience
• Develops strategic relationship with Randstad peers and leaders to maintain quality client delivery and solve client challenges
• Builds strong relationships with hiring managers and ensuring overall sourcing strategies and plans are developed and executed in a timely fashion 

Sourcing & Screening. Key activities:

• Employs all available recruiting and sourcing strategy tools and partners as needed to document and execute a sourcing strategy documentation to include modifications to and results of the execution for future reference, as well as source of hired candidate(s), reasons for de-selection of presented candidates
• Maintains working knowledge of Randstad and other up-to-date sourcing and screening methodologies; effectively partners with Talent Sourcing Specialists, Recruiting Coordinators and Centers of Expertise as needed
• Manages the candidate pool for each requisition including internal candidates, ad response candidates and direct sourced candidates. Uses independent judgement to determine potential candidate eligibility based on resumes, professional profiles and interview notes
• Builds a qualified candidate profile and presents slate of candidates to meet client deliverables and SLA 
• Understands of sourcing methodologies and how to execute them to effectively develop a candidate pipeline

Key Performance Indicators

• Quantity of hires (as defined per the client agreement) each month
• Requisition time to fill
• Compliance to client SLAs

Requirements & Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or 2 years equivalent work experience, required

For Talent Advisors with recruitment in English - English spoken with fluency and written with accuracy

Tools

• Google Suite
• Microsoft Office Excel / PPT / Word / Outlook
• Demonstrated ability to master and navigate automated staffing systems and applications
• Applicant Tracking Systems, Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) systems 
• Databases with moderate to complex profiles

Competencies

All employees are required to exemplify the full suite of Randstad competencies and behaviours however the key competencies for this role include:

Strong Concepts

• Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction
• Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system
• Comprehends the different organizational departments and functions

Best People

• Self-motivated, sets clearly defined objectives
• Sets high standards for quality and quantity
• Resilience
• Works under pressure, manage time effectively
• Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people
• Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way
• Gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiating
• Takes initiative and works under own direction
• Initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes
• Makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks
• Develops job knowledge and expertise (theoretical and practical) through continual professional development
• Establishes good relationships with customers and staff, relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts, uses humour appropriately to bring warmth to relationships with others 
• Shows respect for the views and contributions of other team members
• Shows empathy, listens, supports and cares for others
• Consults others and shares information and expertise with them
• Builds team spirit and reconciles conflict; adapts to the team and fits in well
• Works productively in a pressurized environment

Excellent Execution

• Analyses numerical data and all other sources of information
• Makes rational judgments from the available information
• Sets clearly defined objectives
• Plans activities and projects well  in  advance  and  takes account of  possible changing circumstances
• Identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks
• Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise
• Manages time effectively
• Monitors performance against deadlines and milestones
• Monitors and maintains quality and productivity

Superior Brands

• Promotes core values
• Genuineness 

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong organization skills and attention to details
• Proven ability to take initiative and build strong productive relationships across boundaries, interacting and consulting with all levels of the organization

Experience required:

• Minimum 1 years of requisition management and/or consultative recruiting role as the direct, primary hiring manager point of contact
• Minimum 2 years in a candidate generation role, producing candidate pipelines and having a proven track record of hiring success
• Demonstrated track record of understanding client’s functional/technical hiring needs and translating those into effective candidate generation strategies (passive and active)
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently and effectively screen candidates to evaluate their eligibility for candidacy and consultatively present to hiring teams
• Proven ability to understand candidate motivations and effectively sell the opportunity to the candidate to ensure offer acceptance if made

Experience preferred:

• Experience in a high pressure, urgent recruiting environment supporting external clients (e.g. RPO, Search Firm or Agency)
• May require experience in a specific area of expertise depending on client need (e.g. Engineering, Finance, etc.)

Knowledge preferred:

• The acquaintance of the compliance rules or other comparable regulatory processes impacting recruitment pertinent to the requisitions supported
• Employment branding and position value proposition creation
• Social media and social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Job boards, Professional organizations and others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Spanish and in English languages

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required for the job.  The above statements are more intended to describe the general nature of the work that is required to be performed by most of the people assigned to this role.