Senior Recruitment Specialist (14 month fixed term contract)

Blackberry; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BlackBerry's QNX team as a Senior Recruitment Specialist in Ottawa on a 14-month fixed-term contract. You will leverage your technical recruitment expertise to source hard-to-find candidates across the embedded technology industry, ensuring a positive experience for all candidates and hiring managers.

Benefits

Great salary

Bonus

Outstanding benefits package

Training and growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous recruitment experience in the embedded technology industry.
• Proven success in sourcing candidates using platforms such as LinkedIn and GitHub.
• Ability to handle complex hiring processes.

Responsibilities

• Qualify candidates and understand their motivations.
• Build talent pipelines and engage with networks.
• Guide hiring managers on necessary skills and traits.

Skills

Technical recruitment

Communication

Collaboration

Influencing

Tools

Workday

Job description

Worker Sub-Type:

Contract (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

QNX is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors,frameworksand development tools, and provides expert support and services for building the world’s most critical embedded systems. We are the embedded experts. QNX was born in embedded, and provides time-tested and trusted foundation software, including our deterministic microkernel real-time operating system (RTOS), safety-certified products,middlewareand security solutions, all purpose-built for embedded systems.

QNX softwareis trusted by more than 68% of the Electric Vehicle market by volume, 24 of the top 25 EV manufacturers and is running in 255 million vehicles globally. Global leaders such as Audi, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, General Electric, and Honeywell depend on QNX technology for their in-car electronics, medical devices, industrial automation systems, and other mission- or life-critical applications.

Come join QNX as we accelerate to towards the next chapter of innovation!

We have a wonderful opportunity working as a Senior Recruitment Specialist in our Kanata based office, on our small yet mighty Talent Acquisition team on a 14 month fixed term contract basis, providing maternity cover.

You will be joining a top performing, globally visible team, who are passionate about recruiting. We are looking for someone who enjoys working with the business and partnering with Managers throughout the recruitment process to help ensure QNX meets and exceeds its hiring goals, whilst satisfying our candidate’s aspirations for the next step in their career.

Using your technical knowledge, you will enjoy researching and sourcing hard to find candidates with unique skills in very competitive, candidate-driven markets. Utilising your recruitment know-how, you will use your consultative approach to recruit, build and implement strategies which identify passive and active candidates for a wide range of roles, across one of the hottest & fastest moving industries.

We are collaborative, with a friendly and positive team centric culture (we learn & succeed together!). We thrive in QNX's fast paced environment (we are always busy!).

What we will do for you:

• Support your ideas and initiatives that will help us find and connect with people we need to grow our organisation.
• Provide access and market knowledge into insight into one of the hottest & fastest moving industries.
• Give you the opportunity to try new things and work with a team whose priority is candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Provide training and growth opportunities as well as sharing our recruitment know-how with you.
• In return for your skills, experience and passion, we offer a great salary, bonus & outstanding benefits package.

What we would like you to do for us:

• Thoroughly qualify candidates, sharing the great opportunity we have for them whilst understanding their motivations/priorities to help ensure we are the candidate’s 1st choice
• Understand our business strategy and positioning, sharing what makes us different & unique
• Ensure our approach to recruiting fosters diversity & inclusion
• Identify and nurture applicant sources by engaging with various networks and resources
• Build out talent pipelines and tap knowledgeable industry sources to develop an ongoing pool of candidates
• Ensure a positive impression of QNX by promptly and consistently engaging candidates and hiring managers throughout the recruiting cycle
• Guide our hiring managers in understanding the skills, traits and experiences needed and creatively source appropriate candidates
• Help us continually improve the efficiency and overall quality of our recruiting process

What we need you to bring:

• Previous technical recruitment experience gained working in a fast-paced, inhouse or agency environment within the embedded technology industry.
• A track record of providing an outstanding recruitment experience for candidates & hiring managers alike.
• Proven success sourcing candidates directly utilising multiple platforms such as LinkedIn/Github.
• Ability to deal with sophisticated hiring processes and successfully follow it through to closure.
• Excellent communication, influencing & collaboration skills that have allowed you to build maintain and develop effective in-person and remote relationships.

Desirable

• Previous experience using Workday.

Love recruiting within the general embedded or embedded automotive industries? Then we would love to hear from you!

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40