Mission
As a Talent Sourcer, you will play a key role in the OfferZen Embedded team, providing a high-touch hiring service to our clients. You will work closely with our Account Managers to understand and meet our clients' hiring needs. This is a great opportunity to showcase your sourcing skills by finding and engaging top talent. You'll connect them with career opportunities where they can excel, helping our customers build strong teams.
What success looks like:
- Continuously build and maintain a robust pipeline of qualified candidates for various tech roles across different companies and industries.
- Meet or exceed targets for sourcing, screening, and interviewing, contributing to successful candidate placements.
- Provide outstanding candidate experiences and maintain high levels of engagement.
- Collaborate effectively with the OfferZen Embedded team, supporting overall hiring success and team objectives.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Managers to understand the requirements of each role and develop sourcing strategies.
- Use OfferZen as a sourcing channel to identify potential candidates for our customers' job openings.
- Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified candidates for OfferZen’s customers.
- Conduct initial outreach to candidates to gauge their interest, availability, and suitability for roles.
- Engage candidates through personalised messaging, promoting the company’s brand and value proposition.
- Conduct screening calls to assess candidates' qualifications and cultural fit.
- Assist with coordination of interviews and other recruitment activities
- Provide regular updates on sourcing progress and candidate pipeline status to the team.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of candidate interactions and sourcing activities.
- Identify areas for improvement in sourcing and adjust strategies to enhance outcomes.
Role-specific competencies
- Hungry - Driven by an insatiable urge to achieve more and improve themselves
- Attention to detail - Thoroughly and accurately completes tasks with a consideration of all the parts of the system. Work does not need to be checked or supervised.
- Customer service orientation - Demonstrates concern and passion for the needs of the customer (internal and external) and continuously strives to meet those needs. Has exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal) - The ability to clearly, openly and empathetically communicate across all levels.
- Persuasive - Able to influence and convince candidates or clients by effectively articulating ideas, creating buy-in, and driving decisions.
- Adaptable - Open and willing to learn new things, take on new challenges and make adjustments to suit transitions in the workplace
- Resourceful - Able to apply agency, creativity and tolerance for discomfort to solve “impossible” problems.
- Marketing ability - Able to advertise opportunities within open positions, promote the benefits of joining the OfferZen’s clients (employer branding), and advocate for the talents and experience of candidates
Qualities to Thrive at OfferZen
- Growth mindset - Actively seeks feedback, adjusts behaviour where required and has the ability and motivation to learn quickly
- Self directed - Ability to forge their own path, take responsibility for their work within a fast paced environment.
- Low ego - Healthy sense of self (strengths and capabilities), a multiplier of others’ talents with an openness to learn from others.
- Team player - Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, sharing responsibility and rewards, and contributing to the capability of the team.
- Analytical - Values a data-driven approach to problem solving
Background (Qualifications, Skills, Experience)
- 2+ years of experience in talent sourcing, recruitment, or a related field.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field is preferred, but relevant experience may be considered.
- Proven track record of identifying and engaging top talent through sourcing channels. Experience in Agency / and RPO will be beneficial.
- Experience using an applicant tracking system to manage the recruitment process.
- Experience working within a high growth tech startup/scale up is preferable
*This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.
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