Hybrid Talent Acquisition Specialist

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Talent Acquisition Specialist responsible for full recruitment cycle at Dayshape, enhancing diversity and candidate experience while managing external relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Ensuring we’re bringing in the right people at the right time
  • Ensuring all candidates have an excellent experience
  • Conducting searches through channels like LinkedIn Recruiter to find the best candidates for our vacancies (including passive candidates)
  • Identifying and delivering on opportunities to improve diversity of candidates and inclusivity of the recruitment process
  • Supporting hiring managers with our in-house recruitment cycle, including advice, training, and recruitment admin
  • CV and phone screening candidates
  • Providing feedback and identifying improvement opportunities for our recruitment processes and communications
  • Managing relationships with external recruiters
  • Monitoring, and improving recruitment KPIs
  • Managing candidate offers and references
  • Monitoring and maintaining of the ATS

Requirements

  • Experience in in-house recruitment across the full hiring cycle
  • Knowledge of recruiting passive candidates - identifying and engaging with top talent
  • Experience using an ATS (we currently use Workable)
  • Strong knowledge of Boolean, x-ray search
  • Knowledge of sourcing tools
  • Strong screening and/or interviewing skills
  • Knowledgeable about recruitment-related compliance (e.g. right to work, Equality Act)
  • A bias for action, with demonstrable experience proactively taking initiative to improve systems and processes
  • Adaptable and able to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment
  • Comfortable with owning the whole recruitment process, moving between administrative and strategic tasks as required
  • Highly organised and detail-oriented (you almost never miss something!)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • A strong relationship-builder, able to work collaboratively across departments, building trust and influence at all levels of the business
  • Sound judgement - making assertive decisions about sensitive matters with compassion and discretion
  • **Bonus points if you have**
  • Experience in a scale-up (or similar) environment
  • Experience recruiting within a software company
  • Experience in talent search for technical roles (e.g. software engineers)
  • Familiarity with Workable specifically
  • Experience managing relationships with external recruiters

Benefits

  • At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
  • 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
  • Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
  • Enhanced family leave policies
  • Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
  • Income protection and death in service cover
  • Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
  • Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
  • Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
  • Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
  • Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!

Job title

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

£30,000 - £35,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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