Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Job Description

Introduction
Ready to help build IBM’s biggest asset - its talent? As a Recruitment Professional, you serve an integral role as the main point of contact for both candidates and hiring managers, guiding them through the full recruiting lifecycle. Work with a team using the most innovative approaches to attraction, sourcing, selection, interviewing, offering, and closing. This is an opportunity to shape IBM’s future. Start your journey now!
Your Role and Responsibilities

• Providing specialized sourcing expertise for niche profiles. This includes designing creative and innovative ways of finding passive external talent.
• Building and maintaining talent pools of suitably qualified candidates based on business demands
• Consulting with hiring managers and talent acquisition partners to develop a strategic sourcing plan and ensure successful recruitment of quality candidates
• Direct and proactive outreach to passive talent, including cold calling and headhunting
• Fully qualifying the candidate during an initial telephone interview
• Staying present in the process and engaged with the candidate thought out the full recruitment lifecycle
• Build and leverage external relationships with technical/diversity/professional associations , to help shape sourcing strategy and develop future talent pipelines.
• Proactively research new recruitment methodologies, competitive intelligence to create innovative sourcing strategies. Conduct external benchmarking to understand competitive recruiting landscape and influence best practices with team and stakeholders.
• Meet/exceed key recruiting performance metrics.
• Set high recruitment standards ensuring operational excellence and compliance.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent additional years of education and experience
• Substantial experience in a recruitment agency environment where you have been involved in directly sourcing, headhunting, cold calling and interviewing candidates
• Strong knowledge of recruitment and external market trends
• Motivated team player with a passion for recruitment
• Proficient at time management and organization with a strong sense of urgency, flexibility, and adaptability
• Able to deal with ambiguity and changing landscapes
• Expert analytical & problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative manner and develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
None
About Business Unit
IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.
Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when you’re looking for your next career challenge?
Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.
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About IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.
Location Statement
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Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.