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Recruitment & Sourcing Specialist

Employer
CERN
Location
Switzerland
Salary
£6585.55 - £7902.50 per month
Closing date
30 Nov 2018
Reference
HR-TA-SR-2018-115

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Job Details

Functions:

As a talent acquisition specialist in the in-house recruitment team, you will take responsibility for handling recruitment processes A-Z in close collaboration with HR Advisors/Partners and Hiring Managers (departmental clients). This role will require excellent interpersonal, communication, as well as numerical and analytical skills. Success will be based upon establishing a true partnership with the clients to anticipate and deliver, based upon an accurate understanding of their needs.

You will, as a member of a team of recruiters, and on the basis of the recruitment needs of the Organization:

  • Manage recruitment processes from sourcing through to hiring for a variety of profiles.
  • Provide expert advice on recruitment and sourcing matters to HR and clients in other departments.
  • Investigate and evaluate new recruitment channels, identifying potential new sources to attract candidates in CERN's specialist fields.
  • Nurture relations with current service providers, identify and negotiate terms and conditions with new partners.
  • Coordinate outreach activities and events, and provide analytical reports of learning points.
  • Make an active contribution to the Staff recruitment related projects and initiatives to the development of strategies, initiatives and tools in order to provide adequate and timely resourcing of the Organization's staffing needs.
  • Keep up-to-date on best practice and latest developments in recruitment and employment markets relevant to CERN, and submit proposals where appropriate in order to raise the awareness of CERN as an employer of choice through both modern and traditional recruitment initiatives.

Experience:

  • Demonstrated experience in recruitment and sourcing, preferably in an international environment.
  • Proven experience as an in-house recruiter (or in a recruitment agency), ideally in a STEM domain.
  • Experience of working with web-based recruitment platforms, applicant tracking systems and tools including media such as video, social and professional networks.
  • Experience in employer branding, marketing and the creation of promotional materials would be an asset.
  • Experience in a context of a Talent Acquisition Center Of Expertise would be a strong asset
Technical competencies:
  • Recruitment: including sourcing.
  • Marketing, promotion, sponsoring, fundraising: including social and professional media.
  • Information content publishing: knowledge and use of applicant tracking systems and other web-based applications.
  • Use of Office software packages

Behavioural competencies:
  • Managing self: working well autonomously; taking on activities and tasks without prompting; taking initiative beyond regular tasks and making things happen.
  • Working in teams: building and maintaining constructive and effective work relationships; working well in groups and readily fitting into a team; participating fully and taking an active role in team activities.
  • Communicating effectively: expressing opinions, ideas and suggestions with conviction and in a logical/structured manner; keeping to the point; listening actively to others and letting others speak.
  • Solving problems: assimilating large quantities of information; identifying key issues and formulating conclusions clearly and concisely.
  • Learning and sharing knowledge: sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer; questioning traditional assumptions and ways of doing things.

Language skills:

Spoken and written English and French: ability to understand and speak both languages in professional contexts (e.g. conducting interviews), to draft texts for publications and/ or official communications, and to make oral presentations in both languages.

Company

Imagine taking part in the largest scientific experiment in the world. CERN needs more than physicists and engineers – if you’re a student, a graduate, just starting your career or an experienced professional, Whatever your field of expertise, CERN could be your next opportunity: take part!

CERN is a truly unique organisation. A genuine collaboration between countries, universities and scientists, driven not by profit margins, but by a commitment to create and share knowledge.

People here are part of immense scientific discoveries, answering some of life’s most complex questions and pushing the boundaries of understanding. Experts from every field come here to share in this ambition and the nature of this collaborative, international community creates a genuine atmosphere of trust. People are free to work creatively and to trust in, and rely on, their colleagues across the organisation.

History’s being made here – and the excitement is tangible, inspiring, overwhelming at times. It is the only place in the world that you can do this work in this way.

CERN. Take part.

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