Tuesday, January 13, 2015

California, Virtual Location -Sourcing Recruiter

In this role, you will manage searches against a timeline and utilize experience setting benchmarks and metrics. Our Sourcing Recruiters thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done. You will have the opportunity to draw on your extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and functional areas of the business; and forge dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers and HR business partners. You will perform candidate generation, client/account management, prioritize your time in an extremely fast-paced environment, push back when needed, and provide amazing customer service.

Core Responsibilities: -Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment. -Recruit passive candidates and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and motivation rather than simply sell a role. -Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management; conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios. -Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer. -Articulate in writing recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process. -Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Screen, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline -Work with the business, HR, and Compensation to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates. -Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Qualifications Responsibilities include: · Build relationships with hiring teams and recruiting peers · Use recruiting data to influence recruiting best practices · Become a subject matter expert on a specific geography over a short period of time. Figure out how to ‘dive deep’ in each region to find the best talent. · Sourcing. Sourcing. Sourcing. (aka: this is not an event planner job—this is a recruiting job for someone who loves events, not the other way around) · Interview candidates and market the position and company to them Basic Qualifications · Bachelor's degree required · 5+ years of corporate and/or search firm progressive full life cycle recruiting experience. · CTS/ATS experience with sourcing, tracking and managing candidates. · MS Office- including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications Preferred Qualifications · Tech industry recruiting experience. · Ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships. · Outstanding communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills. · Ability to work as part of a collaborative team · Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management. · Self-starting and able to work with little direct supervision. An Equal Opportunity Employer.