Talent Acquisition Specialist

SUMMARY:
Our client specializing in the transport and logistics industry is looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join their team in Johannesburg. This person must have a high energy, who can work at a fast pace and be prepared to operate across all levels.

POSITION INFO:

The successful candidate would have worked in a pressurized, deadline driven environment and must be passionate about recruitment. Must have had agency and corporate recruitment experience. Candidates must have worked or come from a similar industry where they have worked in or been exposed to transport and logistics type positions.

Duties:

• Manage the full life cycle recruiting process
• Facilitate recruitment from defining skill needs to building the talent pool and placement
• Develop social media and event-based recruiting opportunities to identify applicants and secure referrals
• Identify, develop, and promote diverse recruiting sources and methods
• Research, identify and implement recruiting trends
• Utilise proactive recruiting techniques, develop industry contacts and select qualified individuals who will provide added value to the department, business objectives and the Company
• Document all interactions, screening results and recruitment metrics
• Engage the recruitment technology for job posting process and maximise system capabilities working within the SOPs and requisition management guidelines
• Participate in the candidate selection process
• Works with HR Partners to develop interview questions
• Evaluate and screen potential candidates and assist them through the interview and recruitment process
• Utilize and promote behavioural interview techniques
• Ensures timeous communication between candidates, managers, and HR Partners
• Provides interview and career development feedback to employees, as requested
• Develop and prepare salary offers
• Participates in the on-boarding process
• Represent the company and build relationships with colleges/universities, career centres, agencies, job fairs as well as other outside vendors, etc
• Support the Affirmative Action Plans for specified requisitions/functional areas
• Utilize no cost or low cost recruiting methods to manage expense controls to allow achievement of targets and budget
• Maintain database of pipeline candidates
• Manage support vendors and agencies
• Monthly Recruitment KPI reporting

Qualifications and Requirements:

• HR Qualification advantageous
• 5 years prior recruiting and talent acquisition experience, preferably in both agency and corporate environment
• Experience working in the said role within the transport and logistics industry is a must
• Ability to work to targets and deliver results
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent all round communication skills
• Experience identifying and securing sources of potential job candidates
• Experience recruiting qualified candidates from a variety of sources
• Experience marketing and selling a company''s attributes to external candidates
• Experience working with an ATS as well as other recruitment/acquisition tools needed as well as MS Office and Outlook
• Principles and techniques of human resources management
• Methods and techniques of recruitment, selection and placement
• Creative sourcing techniques and recruitment strategies
• Web search techniques to identify and recruit passive candidates
• Reporting

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