Junior Technical Recruitment Consultant

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Junior Technical Recruitment Consultant to provide comprehensive administrative support to the recruitment team. You will upload positions into the ATS, track recruitment activity, and coordinate interviews with candidates across systems and portals.

The role requires 1–3 years in an admin-driven environment and 1–3 years in technical recruiting, with strong English communication and the ability to work across multiple systems efficiently.

Qualifications

• Diploma/degree in any field is essential.
• 1–3 years of experience in an administration-driven environment are essential.
• 1–3 years of related technical recruiting or technical IT experience is required.
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system.

Responsibilities

• Provides full administrative support to all team members.
• Upload position on ATS system as received.
• Ensuring all recruitment activity is tracked within various systems.
• Initiating background checks in the systems and with external agencies.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships between all parties, keeping them up to date with the process.
• Monitoring the systems for candidate responses.
• Arranging interviews by calling candidates and sending confirmation emails.
• Sending Microsoft Teams invites to candidates.
• Formatting CVs and uploading them to the online portal and managing interview invites via the portal.
• Maintaining the recruitment administration via in-house and external systems.
• Chasing candidates for availability.
• Sending rejection notifications and offer letters to candidates.
• Ad hoc assistance with other administrative tasks for the team when required.
• Experience working in busy administration with conflicting deadlines.

Skills

Admin support

Communication

Time management

Team coordination

Tech aptitude

Education

Diploma or Degree

Tools

ATS

Job description

About the job Junior Technical Recruitment Consultant

Duties and responsibilities:

• Provides full administrative support to all team members
• Upload position on ATS system as received
• Ensuring all recruitment activity is tracked within various systems
• Initiating background checks in the systems and with external agencies
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships between all parties, making sure they are constantly up to date with the process
• Monitoring the systems for candidate responses
• Arranging interviews by calling candidates and sending confirmation emails
• Sending Microsoft Teams invites to candidates
• Formatting CVs and uploading them to the online portal and managing interview invites via the portal
• Maintaining the recruitment administration via in-house and external systems
• Chasing candidates for availability
• Sending rejection notifications and offer letters to candidates
• Ad hoc assistance with other administrative tasks for the team when required
• Experience working in a busy administration role with conflicting deadlines.
• Experience working in a recruitment administration role is beneficial but not essential.
• Ability to pick up new systems easily, accustomed to working digitally using different systems.
• Strong organisational skills, ability to handle multiple tasks at once.
• Strong communication skills, confident telephone manner for candidate communication.
• Ability to prioritize workloads and use initiative when making decisions is essential for this role.
• Ability to work in an accurate and timely manner.

Qualifications and experience:

• Diploma/Degree in any field essential
• 1-3 years of experience in an administration-driven environment essential
• 1-3 years of related technical recruiting/or technical IT working experience required, bringing a strong technical aptitude
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passionate for making peoples lives better by matching them with awesome job opportunities
• Experience using an applicant tracking system
• Ability to understand and explain technical roles and job requirements
• Outstanding technical knowledge of various sourcing techniques