Talent Acquisition Sourcer Bracknell, England
Job description
At a glance
Working location - This is a hybrid working role. Your time will be split between working from home and the London/Bracknell Head Office. You will primarily be able to choose your working location preference e.g. predominantly from home, however, there will also be an expectation to visit the London/Bracknell office or other locations as the need arises.
Working pattern/flexible working - Although the role is full time, we are fully open to considering part time and/or flexible working options. Please state your preference in your application and discuss this with the Hiring Manager at the interview stage.
Salary range - The salary range for this role is set at £33,000 - £49,500
Contract type - We have 2 permanent opportunities.
About the role
At the John Lewis Partnership, we’re super passionate about attracting amazing talent to join us on our exciting journey and maintaining an excellent candidate experience, and we’re looking for experienced Sourcers to help us to do this.
You’ll be a trusted partner from the outset - working with the best talent and hiring managers to support them to be proactive, strategic business drivers. The right person will love working with all kinds of people across a range of different industries to source brilliant talent across areas such as tech, finance, HR, digital, marketing, or retail. Often, these difficult markets require innovative and fresh approaches; simply waiting for advert responses isn’t in our DNA. So using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, our ATS (Workday) and a variety of other recruitment technologies, you will work to uncover “unicorn” candidates.
But of course, finding these candidates is only the first step. Our recruitment Sourcers need to be able to articulate the role and EVP in a compelling and exciting way. Providing data and detailed insights to keep leaders in the business updated on the recruitment market will also be crucial. As a part of this, you will need to be highly organised and able to communicate market trends to the business.
In this role you will provide sourcing support to the Talent Acquisition team. You will have a proven track record of mapping top digital talents around the world, nurturing passive talent and converting them into highly engaged candidates within our recruitment process and building pipelines.
Sourcers are akin to recruiters, but different in that they typically are tasked with finding and reaching out to passive candidates. These people are not actively applying but instead need to be discovered through multiple channels and contacted. Sourcers will be great at researching social media, the internet and beyond to find those great candidates. A Sourcer’s role is to find and qualify candidates that are suitable. They would then hand them over to the Recruiter who is responsible for taking those candidates through the end to end process.
You will work collaboratively with the Talent Acquisition (TA) Attraction & Sourcing Manager, alongside Talent Acquisition Managers and Talent Acquisition Consultants, sourcing talent for senior, niche or hard to fill roles.
Additionally, you will lean into innovative projects, embed standard methodologies with our broader recruiting community, and help build our “newsroom” approach for sharing external market and talent insights with the organisation to help shape talent decisions.
You will be an expert in absorbing and running with recruitment briefs and skilled in engaging prospective candidates.
You also can view a copy of the full job outline here:-
External applicants- please view the attached job outline
Internal applicants- please use your internal email address to view this folder:-
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Essential skills you’ll need:-
A personable, articulate communicator who builds relationships with people easily and has strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence and connect with a diverse range of people
Ability to build and deliver top quality diverse talent pipelines
Experience working in a data driven environment and using data to influence hiring decisions
Strong project management experience, ability to manage a broad requisition load
Experience setting up and managing Talent Pools in an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Experienced finding excellent talent in difficult, niche markets through using digital sourcing skills across LinkedIn and other internet sourcing techniques
A LinkedIn Recruiter superuser
Experience in setting and delivering a sourcing strategy to support the generation of candidate pipelines within an in-house recruiting function or recruitment agency
Research acumen and creativity; learn new business areas and skills quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains
Self-assured, may be called upon to work on highly confidential searches with very senior leaders
Desirable skills you could bring:-
Experience using Workday recruiting
Benefits of the Partnership and the role:-
You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose
The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)
Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
Find out more about the extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us on our website under About the Partnership; Benefits.
Important Information - Application and Interview Process:-
The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").
Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1 stage virtual interview w/c 22nd May.
You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications, therefore, we recommend that you apply early.
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