Recruiting Specialist (RPO)

IBM; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting’s Recruiting Specialist role partners with Hiring Managers to process inbound and active candidate applications across sourcing channels, presenting the most qualified to interview. You’ll work within IBM Talent Acquisition teams, shaping candidate shortlists and conveying IBM’s EVP to candidates.

Based in the Philippines with a hybrid work arrangement, you’ll manage candidate screening, ATS updates, and requisition status while delivering a strong candidate experience and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 4+ years of recruitment experience across in-house, RPO or agency roles.
• 2+ years with a web-based applicant tracking system.

Responsibilities

• Review and screen candidate applications from multiple sourcing channels and present the most qualified for interviews.
• Manage a requisition load, collaborating with Hiring Manager from discovery to offer negotiation or as part of a sourcing team.
• Act as the first point of contact for active candidates and communicate IBM's EVP and role details.
• Maintain ongoing candidate status updates and ensure accurate ATS entries.
• Contribute to high client satisfaction levels and promote positive referrals and case studies.

Skills

Recruitment experience

ATS experience

Sourcing

Candidate screening

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

ATS

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

The Recruiting Specialist is responsible for in-bound, active candidate processing which involves reviewing and screening candidate applications from a variety of sourcing channels and presenting the most qualified to be interviewed by the client.

Recruiting Specialist may manage an individual requisition load, working directly with the Hiring Manager from discovery intake to offer negotiation or form part of a sourcing team, supplying active candidates for requisitions managed by the IBM Talent Acquisition Business Partners.

They will act as the first point of contact for active candidates and will be able to convey the client’s EVP and talk knowledgably about the company, industry, and role opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• May participate in the role discovery meeting with Hiring Manager and agrees delivery expectations, timelines, and sourcing strategies
• Use screening and selection criteria to identify qualified active candidates against prescribed scoring criteria via resume review, pre-recorded interview, scripted interview, or a combination
• Notify relevant candidates within the ATS/CRM on opportunities
• Acts as a brand ambassador to engage active candidates and retain their interest in the client’s company
• Screens and submits candidate short-lists to the Hiring Manager or TABPs and provides requisition status updates as required
• Reviews the relevant strength and size of the candidate pool to determine with the TABP if additional sourcing activities are required
• Contributes, through excellent delivery, to high client satisfaction levels with the service to promote positive NPS scores, references, and case studies from the account
• Keep systems accurately updated as required

Required education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• At least 4+ years of recruitment experience, with sourcing expertise in either an in‑house, RPO or agency role
• At least 2 years’ experience with a web‑based applicant tracking system
• At least 2 years’ knowledge of functional recruitment best practices

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Has RPO experience with hiring management exposure and/or experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they did.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Job Title

Job ID

127622

City / Township / Village

QUEZON CITY

State / Province

National Capital Region (Manila)

Country

Philippines

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Enterprise Operations

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 100% or 5 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(0856) IBM Business Services

Shift

Night

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