Talent Acquisition Sourcer - Temporary Contract (Job number #1523658)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Experience:

- Substantial experience in a recruitment agency environment where you have been involved in directly sourcing, headhunting, cold calling and interviewing candidates
- Demonstrated experience of managing hiring manager and stakeholder expectations
- Experience of recruiting experienced IT professionals
- First-level university degree or equivalent preferred
- Experience of using social networking tools for recruitment e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter
- Proven track record of delivering sufficient, high-quality pipelines for multiple complex searches simultaneously

Skills & Competencies:

- Strong knowledge of recruitment and external market trends in the local market(s)
- Motivated team player with a passion for recruitment
- Proficient at time management and organization with a strong sense of urgency, flexibility, and adaptability
- Ability to effectively sell the HPE value proposition to candidates
- Superior communication (written/verbal), presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across all employee groups and levels (executives, managers & employees)
- Persuasive and effective email and phone communication skills
- Able to deal with ambiguity and changing landscapes
- Creative mindset, able to think outside the box
- Autonomous strategic thinker and change driver - makes things happen
- Expert analytical & problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in a collaborative manner and develop strong working relationships with clients, employees and HR colleagues.

The Global Strategic Sourcing team works in partnership with the Recruiting teams to provide proactive and predictive recruiting services for HPE with a focus on developing pipelines of qualified talent and sourcing candidates with niche skill sets.

Your role will be to proactively target and headhunt passive talent, for profiles which are not easily filled with traditional recruiting methods, and build talent pools of qualified candidates ready to be hired.

Key responsibilities of the Sourcer include:

- Providing specialized sourcing expertise for technical and niche profiles. This includes designing creative and innovative ways of finding passive external talent for HPE
- Building and maintaining talent pools of suitably qualified candidates based on business demands
- Consulting with hiring managers and recruiters to develop a strategic sourcing plan and ensure successful recruitment of quality candidates
- Direct and proactive outreach to passive talent, including cold calling and headhunting
- Fully qualifying the candidate during an initial telephone interview
- Proactively using e-recruitment tools and Social Media to source top qualified candidates and keep up-to-date with new trends in sourcing
- Staying present in the process and engaged with the candidate thought out the full recruitment lifecycle
- Developing and maintaining effective networks to maximize visibility and attract top quality candidates.
- Contributing to HPE's diversity objectives by developing a diverse top qualified pool of candidates (as applicable by geography)
- Support will be provided by the current team in order to build your knowledge of the organization, systems and recruitment channels.