Job title:
Sourcing Specialist

Scope:
Responsible for proactively seeking to identify professional talent, primarily through effective and diligent Internet, database, and social media searches.

Reporting to:
Team Lead or Team Manager

Job purpose:
Execute all sourcing activities such as vacancy intake, sourcing, screening and submitting into clients. Main focus is candidate perspective.

Main accountabilities:
● As a Sourcing Specialist you wil l be responsible for proactively seeking to identify entry to senior level talent, primarily through effective and diligent Internet, database, and social media searches.
● You will quickly analyse social data and resumes to engage qualified candidates.
● You will be responsible for market and talent research ascertaining likely sourcing opportunities for well-matched candidates and complete detailed Master Sourcing Plans.

● If a short listing assignment is undertaken you will conduct first level interviews to determine if there is a match to the client needs.
● A tenacious knack to quickly execute research techniques and a determination to uncover hidden online information is essential for success. The ability to
work in a fast paced, changing environment, where you will manage your daily activity to identify leads and engage people online and over the phone is vital.
● This exciting opportunity allows you to partner with multi-location and/or global colleagues and assemble and execute appropriate sourcing methods to produce quality candidates for our clients.

a) Vacancy Intake:

• Organize/join intake with the hiring manager/recruiter in order to get a complete picture of hard and soft requirements, culture and working environment.
• Identify screening criteria together with the client/recruiter.
• Upon completion of intake meeting, create master sourcing plan with appropriate sourcing strategy.

b) Identification:

• Analyze job description and translate to search queries, to be used in database mining in various channels such as internal candidate database (Mfront, Bullhorn), job board databases, internet searches (Google and other web searches, LinkedIn and other social networks), and in some cases phone sourcing etc. as requested.
• Review CV’s for pattern recognition to guide search queries.
• Determine eligibility of candidate based on paper CV.
• Diligent internet research to find hidden information (passive candidates).
• Putting together Master Sourcing Plan where applicable.

Competencies:

The key competencies for this role include:

Strong Concepts
1. Client focus
Best People
2. Performance management
3. Resilience
4. Work under pressure
Excellent Execution
5. Passion for results
6. Commercial drive
7. Team working
8. Efficient implementation
Superior Brands
9. Promoting core values
10. Genuineness

Knowledge, skills and experience:
● Knowledge of social media and social networking sites.
● Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple requisition assignments across 1 or more industry sectors
● Demonstrated evidence of solid time management and organizational skills
● Demonstrated ability to self-motivate, set goals and meet deadlines
● Customer service focus and ability to maintain courteous and professional working relationships

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Niddhi.m@randstad.in