Talent Advisor
First Horizon Bank
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Job summary
First Horizon Bank is seeking a Talent Advisor in Memphis to partner with hiring leaders, drive full-cycle recruiting, and elevate hiring quality. You will conduct intake conversations, structured screenings, and data-informed decisions to align talent with business needs across diverse roles.
The role emphasizes skills-based hiring, digital fluency, and consistent selection practices, with opportunities to own a specialization area and contribute to team success.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 2–5 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, career coaching, or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle recruitment across diverse job families.
- Strong proficiency with ATS and HCM platforms for requisitions, workflows, reporting and compliance.
- Understanding of technical, digital, and behavioral competency evaluation.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders through consultative partnership.
- Strong analytical capability with ability to leverage hiring data to inform strategy.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and executive presence skills.
- SHRM-CP or PHR certification preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Talent Partnership: define role requirements and success profiles with hiring leaders.
- Full-Cycle Recruitment: lead sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection and offers.
- Sourcing & Market Intelligence: build pipelines via LinkedIn, job boards, universities and niche channels.
- Skills-Based Hiring: use structured guides to evaluate and map skills to opportunities.
- Digital & Technical Proficiency: manage ATS/HCM systems and analytics to optimize processes.
- Specialization & Team Contribution: develop a defined specialty and share best practices.
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Job description
The Talent Advisor serves as a strategic partner to hiring leaders, driving full-cycle recruitment while elevating the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the hiring process. This role operates as a consultative advisor—aligning talent strategy with business objectives, workforce needs, and evolving skill requirements.
The Talent Advisor is accountable for delivering high-quality hiring outcomes through disciplined intake conversations, structured screening methodologies, proactive sourcing strategies, and data-informed decision making. This role emphasizes skills-based evaluation, digital fluency, and consistent selection practices to ensure strong long-term talent alignment.
In addition to full-cycle recruiting responsibilities, Talent Advisors develop a defined area of specialization aligned to both individual strengths and enterprise needs. This specialization enhances overall team capability while maintaining shared accountability for recruiting results.
Strategic Talent Partnership
- Partner with hiring leaders to define role requirements, success profiles, and critical skills needed for business impact
- Lead structured intake discussions to clarify technical competencies, digital requirements, and behavioral expectations
- Provide consultative guidance on market conditions, talent availability, compensation trends, and hiring strategy
- Align recruiting efforts with workforce planning priorities and evolving business objectives
- Lead end-to-end recruitment including sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, and offer extension
- Conduct structured pre-screens that evaluate technical capability, digital proficiency, soft skills, and role alignment
- Present qualified candidates with clear, data-informed assessments
- Manage candidate experience from initial engagement through onboarding transition
- Develop and execute targeted outreach strategies for active and passive talent
- Leverage LinkedIn, job boards, professional networks, university partnerships, and niche channels
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill segments
- Utilize market insights and hiring data to inform recruiting strategy and improve outcomes
- Apply structured interview guides and assessment tools to promote fair, consistent evaluation
- Translate candidate skills into internal opportunities across business units
- Identify pathways for nontraditional talent pools to address evolving workforce needs
- Effectively leverage applicant tracking systems, HCM platforms, recruiting technologies, sourcing tools, and talent analytics
- Demonstrate strong digital fluency in managing candidate pipelines, reporting, workflow optimization, and system navigation
- Continuously adapt to emerging recruitment technologies, including AI-enabled tools
- Develop and maintain a defined specialty area that strengthens overall Talent Acquisition capability (examples may include digital sourcing strategy, assessment optimization, talent intelligence, early career programs, workforce planning support, or niche segment expertise)
- Share expertise and best practices to enhance overall team performance
- Demonstrate agility in adapting to shifting business priorities and evolving hiring demands
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 2–5 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, career coaching, or related discipline
- Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle recruitment across diverse job families
- Strong demonstrated proficiency in using applicant tracking systems (ATS) and Human Capital Management (HCM) platforms to manage requisitions, candidate workflows, reporting, and compliance requirements
- Strong understanding of technical, digital, and behavioral competency evaluation
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence stakeholders through consultative partnership
- Strong analytical capability with ability to leverage hiring data to inform strategy and improve performance
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and executive presence skills
- SHRM-CP or PHR certification preferred
- Ability to travel up to 25%
First Horizon Corporation is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available atwww.FirstHorizon.com (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.firsthorizon.com/__;!!Cz2fjcuE!hpq9hPnrucZCPIAVPojVESItIq-FPzhurNdCrQ3JE8Rkx3gMd70nIk6_kmPxl66_oJCEsXs0gNunPowMAMHCmBYPOtUxUGI$) .
- Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision
- HSA with company match
- Maternity and parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mentor program
- 401(k) with 6% match
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