Talent Advisor

LevelUP HCS; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy in South Africa seeks a Talent Advisor to manage the end-to-end recruitment process. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive recruiting experience to identify and attract top talent while building strong relationships with hiring teams. Responsibilities include sourcing candidates, developing job descriptions, and managing recruitment metrics. Strong communication and technological skills are essential for success in this fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full lifecycle recruiting.
• Background in the staffing/recruiting industry.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Leverage online recruiting resources and internal/external networks.
• Develop and maintain a network of contacts for sourcing candidates.
• Conduct follow-up calls and quality-improvement studies with hiring managers and new hires.

Skills

Excellent prioritization

Oral communication skills

Writing skills

Strong work ethic

Client orientation

Internet and social media savvy

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Server-based applicant tracking system

Job description

Talent Advisor

• Permanent Position
• Century City, Cape Town | Hybrid
• Must have flexibility to work with international teams across various time zones.

About LevelUp HCS

LevelUP HCS provides Recruiting Consulting Services and Strategic Solutions that positions companies to confidently scale. Our experienced experts mesh appreciation of the human dynamic with recruitment goals, corporate considerations, and compliance requirements. We custom design and institute a scalable, seamless recruitment process that is fully integrated end-to-end for each client.

We are the first to deliver a recruitment solution that marries subject matter expert (SME) recruiters and management consulting to deliver high quality hires at a low cost. We offer flexible solution s, including teams of on- or off-site dedicated recruiters.

Sourcing and recruiting

• Leverage online recruiting resources, in-house applicant tracking system, and internal/external networks to identify and source qualified candidates.
• Develop and maintain a network or contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates.
• Proactively recruit, qualify, and identify candidates for all open positions, including development of minimum and preferred candidate qualifications.
• Review resumes and credentials for appropriateness of skills, experience, and knowledge in relation to position requirements.
• Uses effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed, appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts verbally and in written form.
• Develops an effective pipeline of key talent potentially available for immediate hire as succession planning needs dictate.
• Develops, facilitates, and implements all recruitment policies and procedures, inc luding all phases of the recruitment process.

Relationship Management

• Confer with senior leadership to identify personnel needs, workforce planning strategies, and search assignments.
• Visits all hiring manager departments to develop a thorough understanding of the department culture and uses that understanding to help candidates fully understand the opportunity.
• Initiates and maintains excellent working relations within the client’s Human Resources Organization
• Mentor and coach junior recruiters and sources to meet the company’s talent acquisition needs, including proactive talent sourcing, talent assessment, hiring processes, and recruiting operations.

Process Management

• Manages and coordinates communications with candidates and vendors.
• Develop complete and detailed job descriptions ensuring an understanding of job duties, responsibilities, and business requirements.
• Interviews all candidates presented for detailed interviewing by hiring managers and includes the use of face-to-face behavioral-based interviewing methodologies.
• Coordinate the scheduling and logistics of all interviews with recruiting coordinator.
• Organized, leads, and documents post-interview debrief/feedback and post-mortems with interview teams and candidates.
• Manages the presentation, selection, offer, negotiation, closing, and administrative components involved in full lifecycle recruiting.
• Conducts follow-up calls and quality-improvement studies with hiring managers and new hires.
• Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers interactions, and other recruiting activities to ensure a safe and thorough audit if required.
• Extends offers of employment to selected candidates under the direction of the hiring managers and within the guidelines of client’s compensation policy.

Management and training

• Uses effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed, appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts verbally and in written form, and timeliness.
• Works cooperatively with all members of the staffing team to develop and implements staffing plans and activities.
• Train and educate managers on recruitment process.
• Provide training and communication awareness.
• Compliance & regulatory adherence reporting/market intel.

Reporting/Market Intel

• Stays informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques to be competitive in state-of-the-art recruiting practices.
• Utilize internal HR recruitment systems to capture all recruitment metrics and trends.
• Ensure data quality for all recruitment reports.
• Assist in preparation of QBR.

Administrative

• Performs other related and ad-hoc duties and projects as assigned.

Required Skills and Attributes

• Knowledge and extensive past use of a server-based applicant tracking system.
• Excellent prioritization, writing, and oral communication skills are required.
• Ability to develop business cases and service requirements, while creating and managing strategic alliances.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Ability to exercise sound discretion and independent judgment.
• Strong work ethic, communication, and client orientation skills
• Must have the ability to quickly learn systems, processes, and procedures.
• Must be able to quickly assimilate technical information and build solutions to the optimal balance of meeting business needs, beating competitors, and operating within financial resource constraints.
• Ability to effectively work in a fast paced, detail oriented and deadline focused environment.
• Advanced knowledge using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Must be Internet and Social Media savvy, specifically with websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Education and work experience

• A Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience in full lifecycle recruiting.

• A background working in the staffing/recruiting industry.