Recruitment Specialist Full Time Permanent

Recruitment Specialist – Cape Town

A Recruitment Specialist position is available in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

We are looking for an experienced Recruitment Specialist to join our team. It is a challenging, fast-moving candidate-driven market, and the ideal candidate should be initiative-taking and tenacious enough to keep up with the pace.

If you are looking to take your career to the next level and maximize your growth potential, then this is the right opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities – Recruitment Specialist:

• Source, Screen, and interview candidates to ensure we put forward the best quality candidates to clients for various technical roles
• Keep up to date with latest industry trends to ensure candidates can be evaluated against industry-standard assessments
• Generate new leads using your IT network of contacts
• Network online and offline with potential candidates to promote our employer brand and ensure we attract the best professionals
• Build relationships and coordinate with IT leaders to understand departmental goals and forecast hiring needs
• Write and post technical job descriptions on specialist IT job boards, social media and any other relevant channels
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g., structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Build a candidate CRM to ensure a solid pipeline of qualified candidates – ensuring candidate is kept updated
• Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals
• Keep up to date with new technological trends in order to form strategic conversations with clients on future hiring needs

Qualification and Experience – Recruitment Specialist:

• Degree in HR, communications, marketing, or similar advantageous
• 4 -5 years IT or Tech recruitment experience
• Strong experience in sales, development or client development roles
• Proven work experience in recruitment – ideally as a Technical Recruiter
• Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g., Teams, Zoom, Google Hangouts)
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles
• Experience using LinkedIn Talent Solutions to source quality candidates
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong tenacity and ability to build a solid network

Knowledge and Skills:

• Manage recruitment process ensuring governance
• Recruitment administrative support
• Understands and role requirement
• Implement the transformational recruitment plan

Core Competencies:

• Cultivates Innovation by creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful.
• Client Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Results – Consistently achieving results and meets deadlines, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resilience – Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations

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