Heidrick & Struggles
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
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About Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com.
Responsibilities
- Host intake meetings with clients to understand job descriptions, develop key search criteria, compelling sell messages and value propositions, and lay out a comprehensive recruiting strategy and process.
- Provide regular progress updates to key stakeholders. Lead pre-and post-interview meetings to guide stakeholders to sound hiring decisions.
- Team with HR Business Partners around future business needs and proactively build talent pipelines.
- Flawlessly execute the full-life cycle process, communicating with candidates and stakeholders throughout, including interview scheduling and gathering necessary approvals, maintaining data integrity within our systems, and negotiating offers.
- Master the Workday & LinkedIn recruiting module.
- Support early career recruiting.
- Actively use social media to build brand awareness and drive top of funnel candidate flow.
- Network internally to build strong relationships, learn the culture of the firm, create a strong internal brand and enhance awareness of hiring needs to generate employee referrals.
- Build and present candidate slates through proactive external sourcing, reviewing job applicants, connecting with your pipeline, and vetting internal referrals.
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Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in agency or corporate recruiting.
- Undergraduate degree.
- Strong research skills; experience with data mining, lead generation, Boolean searches and other sophisticated sourcing techniques.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple, concurrent searches meeting deliverable deadlines.
- Experience identifying trends, competitive intelligence and researching information effectively through various channels and providing concise, compelling summaries.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to effectively prioritize projects and deliverables.
- Proven expertise with MS Office Suite software, LinkedIn recruiter, ATS and CRM platforms.
- Demonstrable initiative, resourcefulness, self-management and personal accountability.
- Dedication to teamwork and desire to contribute in a highly collaborative environment.
- Client service mindset.
- Excellent communicator who knows when to talk and, more importantly, when to listen.
- Self-directed and driven to succeed, seeing challenges as opportunities.
- Highly ethical and professional.
- Continuous learner who appreciates and responds to feedback.
- Resilient in bouncing back from the standard challenges and setbacks that come in recruiting.
- Flexible and open to change.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a combination of both agency or corporate recruiting with corporate experience in a professional services organization
- PhD/ABD in Business, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or similar field.
- Experience using Workday.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.
Reasonable Accommodations
Heidrick & Struggles is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and/or adjustments during our recruitment process. If you are selected for an interview and require an accommodation and/or adjustment, please inform your Talent Acquisition professional.
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