Technical Sourcing Recruiter

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Recruiting team is seeking a talented, customer focused Sourcing Recruiter to join our global recruiting organization. You will be supporting AWS technical teams in the Infrastructure space to drive candidate generation strategies in partnership with your clients.

The Sourcing Recruiter will take the lead in building and developing a talent pipeline. The ideal candidate will have experience working with passive candidates in a competitive and technical market and key in on generating high quality candidate pipelines. They will act as sourcing subject matter expert and deliver talent market insights back to peers and business team partners to drive educated sourcing strategy decisions. They will also work closely business teams to ensure recruiting processes are effective and efficient and provide a positive candidate experience.

Core Responsibilities:
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Develop research to map our markets and generate candidate names and profiles; create and execute robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest talent; calibrate candidates with hiring managers.
• Must be able to understand how to recruit passive candidates and possess the ability to assess candidates against profiles and the culture described in our leadership principles, rather than merely sell a role.
• Prepare/contribute to search status reports and lead/participate in client update meetings on active searches.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
•Continually contribute to the knowledge base of the group sharing new information about industries and talent pools or profile types.
• Articulate in writing recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Be a top technical recruiter. Whether your background is corporate/in house, search firm or boutique you will be genuinely interested in and the go-to person for technical industry searches, specifically in a research and assessment capacity.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting.
• Prior experience sourcing for technical positions such as Software Development Engineers, Software Development Managers, Systems Engineers.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.
• Contact Management System/Applicant Tracking System experience for sourcing, tracking and managing candidates.
• Experience with MS Office - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.