Talent Acquisition Consultant

Duties and responsibilities:

• Build relationships with internal stakeholders through interactions and by understanding and meeting their needs.
• Engage with candidates in a professional manner by communicating information and providing feedback timeously.
• Maintain networks with service providers through regular communication.
• Align own practices to policies and procedures by building and maintaining relationships with the broader HR community.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in the companys cultural initiatives
• Achieve key business strategies by participating in and supporting corporate social responsibility initiatives.
• Add value to the company by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support the implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
• Ensure authorisation of vacancies and budget is obtained prior to recruitment as per relevant processes and policies.
• Ensure best-fit candidates are recruited by clarifying stakeholders vacancy requirements.
• Attract suitable applicants by creating adverts and advertising vacancies using the most effective sourcing channels.
• Screen applicant cv's by reviewing and identifying appropriate applicants.
• Ensure that policies and practices are met through conducting the shortlisting and interviewing for applicants including record keeping of all applications and communications for audit purposes.
• Finalise applicant shortlisting by engaging line management/HR.
• Ensure that shortlisted candidates are scheduled for interviews; assessments and clearance checks by providing the necessary information to the Recruitment Administrator for processing.
• Participate in deciding on the most suitable candidate for appointment through the line and candidate engagement.
• Meet minimum required recruitment metrics by continuously monitoring and tracking progress and taking corrective action where required.
• Ensure all recruitment activities comply with regulatory requirements.
• Respond to queries or complaints in a timely manner and ensure that they are actively resolved.
• Minimize risk to the bank regarding recruitment practices by updating vacancy and applicant status on all relevant systems; notify applicants accordingly and by keeping accurate recruitment records.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression opportunities for self with input from management.
• Support personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring that all learning activities are completed; experience gained and certifications obtained within specified time frames.
• Maintain knowledge management; and improve team success by sharing knowledge with team and stakeholders.
• Update and monitor the recruitment process through relevant process tracking documents within service level agreements (SLA).
• Implement effective recruitment service delivery by following the relevant processes and SLA's.
• Ensure that business objectives are met by attracting best fit talent in order to fill vacancies following the recruitment process.
• Ensure a smooth recruitment process by engaging and advising business continuously on recruitment-related matters.
• Identify and utilise optimal sourcing channels to ensure vacancies are filled in a cost-effective manner.
• Ensure vacancies are filled with best-fit talent on time and in a cost-effective manner.
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

Qualifications and experience:

• Matric Certificate / Grade 12 (Essential)
• Minimum 3 - 5 years experience in recruitment - either in a fast-paced startup / progressive corporate environment and preferably with previous recruitment agency background
• Social Media recruitment experience (Essential)
• Experience working with recruitment tools e.g., LinkedIn (Essential)
• CTS/ATS experience with sourcing, tracking and managing candidates
• MS Office - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• APSO registration and certification (highly advantageous)