Talent Specialist

Roles and responsibilities

• Professional experience of identifying and approaching talent from either a search firm or in-house talent team
• Experience of training senior stakeholders on the art of headhunting
• Ability to interview candidates using behavioural interviewing techniques (competency based and psychometric assessments)
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data, with strong performance of Maths at High School
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject
  

Location: EMEA - Fully Remote

The role entails

• Coach our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become expert at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their Management and leadership positions.
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
• Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
• Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

Desired candidate profile

• Professional experience of headhunting future talent on LinkedIn, with an informed opinion of strategies and experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Tech industry.
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, creating learning programmes to develop their ability to successfully identify and engage with passive talent.
• Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments.
• Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject.
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data.
• A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
  

Other Skills You May Bring

• Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate data.
• Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling.
• Psychometric validity and reliability metrics