Talent Advisor

$69,300 - $93,660/Yr

Randstad - Portsmouth, NH

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Portsmouth, NH

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Talent Advisor at Randstad USA, you will serve as a strategic and consultative partner to our client's key stakeholders and hiring managers. Your primary responsibility will be to develop a talent strategy that aligns with client needs and market conditions, ensuring the fulfillment of requisitions. This role requires you to take full accountability and ownership of results, adjusting your course of action as necessary to meet hiring goals. You will build strong relationships with hiring managers, ensuring that sourcing strategies and plans are executed in a timely manner. A deep understanding of sourcing methodologies is essential to effectively develop a candidate pipeline. In this fast-paced and dynamic environment, you will manage and participate in the daily activities of the recruiting team, facilitating the recruiting cycle. You will collaborate with multi-location and global colleagues, including Randstad Sourceright's Talent Sourcing Specialists and Talent Assessment Specialists, to create and execute talent strategies that yield quality hires for our clients. Your role will also involve performing intake calls with hiring managers to clarify position requirements and expectations, acting as an advisor on sourcing strategies, and proactively gathering market intelligence to share with internal teams and hiring managers. You will be responsible for managing the candidate pool for each requisition, evaluating potential candidates based on resumes and interview notes, and presenting qualified candidates to meet client deliverables. Your ability to influence and persuade candidates will be crucial in extending offers and negotiating terms to ensure acceptance. Additionally, you will define and participate in special projects to enhance service offerings and maintain positive relationships to protect the candidate experience. This position requires a strategic relationship with peers and leaders to ensure quality client delivery and address client challenges effectively.

Responsibilities

• Fully responsible and single point of contact for Hiring Managers on all assigned requisitions.
• Collaborates with Manager and appropriate internal team members to ensure that adequate sourcing and screening support is provided based on requisition needs to meet client expectations.
• Performs intake call with Hiring Manager on assigned requisitions to clarify the position, specific requirements, and the opportunity beyond the job description.
• Acts as an advisor to client hiring managers on appropriate sourcing strategy.
• Proactively gather market intelligence and shares with internal team and hiring managers.
• Meets or exceeds assigned daily/weekly account hiring goals and regularly monitors performance scorecard to ensure all SLAs and KPIs are being met.
• Evaluates, reprioritizes, and is responsible for the overall execution of the employment branding strategy.
• Manages the candidate pool for each requisition including internal candidates, ad response candidates and direct sourced candidates.
• Builds a qualified candidate profile and presents slate of candidates to meet client deliverables and SLA.
• Uses influence and persuasion to sell candidate on employment opportunities, extends offers and negotiates to final acceptance of offer.
• Interfaces with and develops strong relationships with client partners as a hiring consultant and provides innovative solutions to solve recruiting challenges and influence hiring decisions.
• Defines and participates in special projects as necessary to enhance our service offering to existing and anticipated clients.
• Promotes positive relationships and strong partnerships to protect the candidate experience.
• Develops strategic relationship with RSR peers and leaders to maintain quality client delivery and solve client challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or 4 years equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum three (3) years of account management, requisition management and/or a consultative recruiting role as the direct, primary hiring manager point of contact.
• Minimum five (5) years in a candidate generation role, producing candidate pipelines and having a proven track record of hiring success.

Nice-to-haves

• College degree preferred.
• Coursework or certification such as: AIRS, Adler Group, Recruitment Juice, NextLevel Exchange or Art of Recruiting.
• Demonstrated track record of understanding clients' functional/technical hiring needs and translating those into effective candidate generation strategies (passive and active).
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently and effectively screen candidates to evaluate their eligibility for candidacy and consultatively present to hiring teams.
• Proven ability to understand candidate motivations and effectively sell the opportunity to the candidate to ensure offer acceptance if made.
• Experience in a high pressure, urgent recruiting environment supporting external clients (e.g. RPO, Search Firm, or Agency).
• May require experience in a specific area of expertise depending on client need (ex: Engineering, Finance, etc.).
• Proven ability to take initiative and build strong productive relationships across boundaries, interacting and consulting with all levels of the organization.
• Microsoft Office [Excel / PPT / Word / Outlook] proficiency.
• Applicant Tracking System proficiency.
• CRM System proficiency.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonus
• Excellent benefits package - medical, dental, vision
• Generous PTO policy earned from day one
• Education and professional development
• Rapid career growth
• Retirement savings and security
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long term disability
• Employee assistance program and health advocacy
• Health and dependent care flexible spending account
• Metlife auto and home insurance
• Metlife legal plan
• Referral reward program
• Exclusive discounts and programs with dozens of nationwide vendors and retailers