We’re Hiring: HR Specialist | Talent Acquisition Specialist
Employment Type: Full-Time
Level: Mid-Level
We are seeking a proactive, people-oriented, and detail-focused HR Specialist | Talent Acquisition Specialist to support human resources operations while leading recruitment and talent-acquisition activities. This role will be responsible for attracting qualified candidates, managing recruitment processes, supporting employee lifecycle activities, and partnering with hiring managers to build a strong and effective workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment activities from job requisition and sourcing through selection, offer, and onboarding.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce requirements, job specifications, and hiring priorities.
- Develop effective sourcing strategies for both active and passive candidates.
- Source candidates through LinkedIn, job portals, recruitment databases, referrals, professional networks, and other channels.
- Review CVs, applications, and candidate profiles against job requirements and selection criteria.
- Conduct initial candidate screening, phone interviews, and competency-based assessments.
- Coordinate interviews between candidates, hiring managers, and relevant stakeholders.
- Manage candidate communication throughout the recruitment process and provide timely updates.
- Prepare interview schedules, candidate summaries, recruitment reports, and hiring recommendations.
- Manage offer processes, salary discussions, reference checks, and pre-employment requirements where applicable.
- Coordinate new-hire onboarding, documentation, orientation, and employee integration activities.
- Build and maintain qualified talent pipelines for current and future vacancies.
- Develop talent pools for critical, specialist, and hard-to-fill positions.
- Maintain accurate candidate information and recruitment activities within ATS and HR systems.
- Track recruitment KPIs including time-to-fill, time-to-hire, sourcing effectiveness, interview conversion, offer acceptance, and hiring quality.
- Prepare regular recruitment dashboards, reports, and hiring updates for HR leadership and management.
- Conduct market research on talent availability, recruitment trends, compensation levels, and competitor hiring activity.
- Support employer-branding initiatives and improve the organization's candidate experience.
- Develop and maintain relationships with recruitment agencies, universities, professional associations, and external talent partners.
- Support career fairs, recruitment events, networking activities, and talent-attraction campaigns.
- Assist with employee records, HR documentation, HRIS updates, and personnel administration.
- Support employee lifecycle processes including transfers, promotions, confirmations, and departures.
- Assist with employee engagement, training, performance-management, and HR initiatives where required.
- Provide HR guidance and administrative support to employees and managers on routine HR matters.
- Ensure recruitment and HR activities comply with company policies, employment requirements, confidentiality standards, and applicable regulations.
- Handle sensitive employee and candidate information with professionalism and discretion.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, HR workflows, candidate experience, and operational efficiency.
- Support HR projects, workforce-planning initiatives, and other people-related projects assigned by management.
Requirements
- Proven experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, HR Operations, or a related role.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment and talent-acquisition processes.
- Experience sourcing candidates through LinkedIn, job portals, recruitment databases, referrals, and professional networks.
- Strong candidate screening, interviewing, assessment, and selection skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation, and stakeholder-management abilities.
- Ability to build strong relationships with candidates, hiring managers, employees, and external recruitment partners.
- Strong understanding of employment practices, HR policies, and employee lifecycle processes.
- Experience working with ATS, HRIS, CRM, recruitment platforms, and HR-management systems.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple vacancies and recruitment priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate HR and recruitment records.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret recruitment metrics and HR data.
- Experience preparing recruitment dashboards, hiring reports, workforce reports, and HR analytics is an advantage.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with HR and cross-functional teams.
- Proactive, resourceful, and results-oriented approach to talent acquisition.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- High level of confidentiality, integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
- Experience with employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent mapping, or workforce planning is an advantage.
- Knowledge of competency-based interviewing and structured candidate assessment is preferred.
- Experience recruiting for corporate, technical, professional, or specialist positions is an advantage.
- Professional HR or recruitment certifications are an advantage.
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field is preferred.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to develop expertise across Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, and People Operations.
- Hands-on experience managing the complete recruitment lifecycle and diverse talent pipelines.
- Exposure to workforce planning, talent strategy, employer branding, HR analytics, and employee engagement.
- Opportunity to work closely with senior management, hiring managers, employees, and business stakeholders.
- Access to modern ATS, HRIS, recruitment, analytics, and talent-management technologies.
- Professional training in recruitment, interviewing, HR operations, employment practices, and talent strategy.
- Opportunity to contribute to HR transformation, recruitment optimization, and employee-experience initiatives.
- Collaborative and professional working environment.
- Career progression into Senior HR Specialist, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, HR Business Partner, Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment Manager, or HR Manager roles.
- Opportunities for continuous learning, professional development, coaching, and HR certifications.
- Competitive salary, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits package.