Recruiter

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Worldwide Operations organization is known for the innovative approaches to customer obsession — and for the talent behind some of the Amazon magic. The Corporate HR Talent Acquisition organization, which supports the TA needs of Operations, is growing and we are looking for a skilled Sourcing Recruiter to join the dynamic recruiting team supporting our leaders in our Seattle office.

As a member of our team you will serve as the sourcing expert for a group of job families we are actively recruiting for across HR and Finance. You will have significant influence and impact over the delivery of sourcing and pipelining while fostering a collaborative environment to ensure a great candidate experience and raising the bar with each candidate hired.

You will have the chance to drive sourcing strategy, identify and recommend process improvements and partner with team members in the execution of these critical components of talent acquisition. We are looking for recruiters with a strong reputation for being exceptional technical candidate generation, strong team collaboration skills, are highly organized, effective communicators, possess the ability to prioritize, push back, and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, all while being highly customer focused.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to deepen their recruiting experience in a large-scale and high-performance recruiting organization. Our team culture is goal-oriented, fast paced and fun! We are motivated by the challenge (and success) of hiring top talent for the ever expanding technical needs of our businesses.

The Roles & Responsibilities for our Sourcing Recruiter include:
· Partner with teams to build effective sourcing and assessment, with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations
· Must be able to understand how to recruit passive candidates at all levels
· Strong knowledge of Boolean, x-ray searches and additional sourcing software/tools
· Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management
· Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the organization, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting to deliver the quality results to the customer
· Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for the most ‘hard to fill' openings

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years of corporate and/or agency recruiting experience including sourcing and/or full life cycle recruiting
· Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience
· Strong working knowledge of Boolean, x-ray searches and additional sourcing software
· Experiencing managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
· Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives.
· Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools and systems, including applicant tracking systems, resume databases, internet sourcing tools and complex spreadsheets