Headhunter / Resourcer / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Home Based)

Salary: £480 – £540 per day

My client is a leading international academic publishing company with an exciting opportunity to join their committed, friendly Talent Acquisition team. This is a globally renowned, sociable and adaptable organisation committed to employee engagement, offering a fun and flexible working culture and an open-door policy.

Overall Role Summary

As the Headhunter/Resourcing Specialist you will support the process of hiring by sourcing the best candidates from multiple channels, engaging with candidates to solicit applications and screening applications to provide high-quality talent to the business. We’re looking for a dedicated and candidate focused recruitment professional who thrives on working in a fast-paced environment. You will have experience of sourcing for hard-to-fill roles. And you’ll need to have excellent communication skills and a good understanding of recruitment attraction and selection methodology.

What You’ll be Doing

* Lead discussions and intake meetings with hiring managers to take detailed briefs on role requirements, sharing their expertise to demonstrate credibility and set expectations on the availability of talent and optimal sourcing strategies

* Proactively source and identify candidates utilizing a broad range of channels and techniques (i.e. search engines, job board databases, social media platforms). Employ innovative techniques to identify elusive specialist or niche talent in the market

* Engage with identified candidates to qualify suitability for the role, to sell the roles and prospective employer, and to encourage those candidates to actively apply for the role

* Take ownership of the business’ recruitment messaging across social media channels such as LinkedIn and other recruitment platforms to increase candidate attraction

* Identify opportunities for combined resourcing activities across the business when there are multiple roles of a similar nature

* Manage a national talent pool of candidates to reduce agency spend and promote direct sourcing where possible

What We’re Looking For

* Proven experience of partnering with business stakeholders to support recruitment activities

* Experience of direct candidate attraction across a range of social media channels with proven experience of sourcing candidates for difficult-to-fill roles

* Knowledge of working with recruitment systems and maintaining a high level of data integrity

* Experience of using specialist techniques (i.e. Boolean searching) to source candidates on a diverse range of channels

* Strong global knowledge of recruitment practices

* Passion for sourcing and candidate engagement, going beyond the obvious

* Deadline driven, with good time management to balance competing demands

* Experience within some kind of publishing or information- or research-based industry is key, ideally digital publishing, so that you can hit the ground running in looking for the kinds of candidates my client needs to attract

What We Offer in Return

* Working from Home with occasional visits to Oxfordshire office when required

* 25 days annual leave (3 additional days at Christmas) plus a day off for your birthday

* 4 volunteering days annually

* Pension contributions

* Seasonal social and charitable events

* Training and development

True Recruitment Solutions Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.