Talent Sourcing Specialist - Relationship Banking - Johannesburg at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• An exciting opportunity to provide subject matter expertise on unique sourcing strategies and channels. The Talent Sourcing Specialist will keep themselves busy identifying and connecting with talent ahead of demand in support of the Relationship Banking Workforce and Capacity Plan. Provide the business with relevant marketing insights and support with talent acquisition specific reporting and analytics

Job Description

Sourcing and Selection:

• Contribute to the definition and design of innovative sourcing strategies that will enable the establishment of a diverse pool of talent to meet the evolving needs to the business workforce plan On a regular basis, proactively explore all channels and processes to build diverse pools of talent Implement creative direct to market talent capturing solutions for the Business; i.e. create and maintain a ‘potential candidate’ database, advertising on web based job search sites, e.g. LinkedIn.
• Conducting research on competitors, building industry networks, attending industry specific events, job fairs, partnering with labour agencies and tapping into global networks
• Provide support to the Talent Acquisition Lead and Talent Acquisition Team Lead in the sourcing and acquisition of critical and scarce skills.
• Utilise talent pools and pipelines, e.g. graduates and learners, Absa Group Limited internal and external databases and other data mining approaches to source candidates
• Draft direct to market advertisements taking into consideration the recruitment criteria and the current business needs with regards to talent.
• Control and manage candidates responses received from the direct to market campaigns by creating a centralised database of applicants and tracking progress within the talent acquisition process. Manage an updated pipeline of candidates through the Resourcing Administrator to ensure that a pipeline of available candidates are a true reflection of availability

Stakeholder and candidate management:

• Work with Talent Acquisition Partners to establish and ensure an understanding of the of the recruitment needs for Specialist roles.
• Manage candidate expectations from the first point of contact with Absa and throughout the recruitment process by providing a realistic view of the process to be followed, role requirements, business environment and feedback.
• Manage post interview responses and feedback to candidates with support from the Resourcing Administrator/Officer and oversee the Resourcing Administrator/Officers candidate management experience.
• Act as a representative for the organisation during all engagements with candidates throughout the recruitment process by continuously communicating with all stakeholders.
• Manage the engagement between candidates, hiring managers,
• People Partners from first point of contact until the on-boarding process through continuous feedback to business and candidates.

Education

• Diploma: Human and Social Studies (Required)