Talent Acquisition Partner

Cerebras; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner to drive recruitment for technical roles. In this role, you will proactively source candidates and collaborate with hiring managers to streamline the recruitment process. The ideal candidate will have experience in recruiting technical positions, possess excellent communication skills, and contribute to various talent team projects. This position emphasizes creating an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for technical roles in the technology sector.
• Strong understanding of technical roles including software (C++, Python).
• Proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Source top candidates across technical roles.
• Partner with managers to understand hiring needs.
• Attract, screen, and hire candidates.
• Maintain and utilize Applicant Tracking System.
• Monitor recruitment processes from outreach to offers.
• Support talent team projects globally.

Skills

Direct sourcing skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Tools

Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse)

Job description

Our Talent Team follows the entire employee journey, from attraction, hiring and onboarding to their journey as an employee, how they learn, develop and progress.

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll play a critical role in the continued growth of Graphcore and achievement of our long‑term vision & goals. As well as hiring the best candidates to support our goals, you work on continuous improvement projects across the talent space like raising our employer brand, process improvement, data insights to support hiring etc.

This is an exciting time for you to join, you’ll work on a wide variety of roles across our Software departments as well as a variety of different projects and help to shape and develop our future Talent Acquisition strategy.

You’ll:

• Proactively source top candidates across our technical roles
• Partner with Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners to understand hiring needs and create a hiring strategy to support
• Attract, screen, and hire candidates through a robust and consistent recruitment process
• Manage all candidates efficiently with a focus on ensuring an excellent and timely experience
• Utilise & maintain our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), ensuring timely & accurate updates at all stages of the recruitment process
• Measure, monitor and manage the recruitment processes from end‑to‑end from outreach to interviews and offer documents – all of which are integrated into our ATS system (Greenhouse)
• Adopt a data driven and evidence‑based approach to delivery underpinned by a commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Work in a collaborative team, passionate about knowledge sharing and upskilling
• Develop collaborative internal relationships to ensure that the recruitment strategy meets wider business requirements
• Work with Marketing to manage our Employer Value Proposition (EVP) in the market and manage our externally facing careers accounts
• Coaching and upskilling Hiring Manager in recruitment and interviewing techniques
• Support wider Talent Team projects and activities globally

About you

You’ll have demonstrable experience gained from performing similar roles within the technology sector. This will include a thorough understanding of recruiting highly technical, niche roles straddling both hardware and software. It goes without saying that you’ll have strong direct sourcing skills as well as high levels of credibility and the ability to build influential relationships with internal stakeholders.

As well as the above, you’ll also bring the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience of recruiting for technical roles ideally software (C++, Python etc)
• Self‑motivated and takes a proactive approach to their work, seeking opportunities to make improvements and problem solve
• A high level of accuracy, ensuring trackers and ATS (Greenhouse) are kept up to date
• Knowledge and experience of taking a consultative approach to supporting hiring managers through the recruitment process
• Experience of project delivery across diversity, process improvement, employer branding etc.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable communicating at all levels
• Work collaboratively with HRBPs & Hiring Manager to provide a seamless service
• Analytical and able to interpret recruitment data & make recommendations based on results
• Customer focused – committed to delivering an excellent experience for candidates and our hiring community
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to effectively prioritise and manage own workload

We take pride in our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of our recruitment process, we ask for confidential diversity data from all applicants. This data will be anonymised so that no personal identification information will be collected, and is retained for statistical purposes only and is not attached to your application. Your responses to the following three questions will remain confidential and will not impact or be used in any way in regards to your application. We are only using this data to improve our hiring process to be inclusive of all diversity backgrounds.