Recruitment Sourcing Specialist Full Time

Role summary

As a Sourcing Specialist you will be part of the Recruitment Marketing, Brand and Sourcing team. The Sourcing Team is an important part of our go to market strategy, helping us build talent pools and pipelines for our current and future roles. Working closely with our Recruiters you will assist with building a pipeline of active and passive candidates.

You will help develop and execute tactical sourcing strategies aimed at generating candidate pipelines to meet the overall recruiting goals, from direct sourcing, building talent pools and pipelines, digital marketing and through to qualifying candidates.

The role is offered on a 12 months Fixed Term Contract and can be based from one of our main UK sites (Guildford, Gloucester, Leeds or Manchester), however it will be predominantly home based as we embrace hybrid working, with occasional travel to an office.

What you’ll be doing

Listed below are some of the typical activities undertaken, however this is not intended to be a fully comprehensive list:

• Working closely with senior recruiters to fully understand the role requirements
• Using varied sourcing techniques to source potential amazing candidates to join our business, including ad response, market mapping, LinkedIn sourcing and social media campaigns
• Identify relevant market trends to map top relevant talent
• Use social media and niche platforms to attract potential candidates using innovative and creative techniques
• Conduct CV screening and telephone interviews referring to the hiring requirements and dealing with candidate’s expectations
• Using initiative to improve processes to ensure the candidates experience is the best it could be, partnering with the candidate care team

What we’re looking for

Essential skills and experience:

• Great communication skills and able to build strong relationships with stakeholders, candidates, recruiters and hiring managers
• Experience in a similar role such as research or exec search
• Attention to detail and comfortable working to agreed KPIs, SLAs
• A team player with a flexible and supportive approach.
• Identify relevant market trends to map top relevant talent

Desirable skills and experience:

• Prior experience using Application Tracking Systems, Candidate Relationship Management Systems, Recruitment Marketing Systems
• Familiar with search techniques such as Boolean search/X-ray search
• Previous knowledge of using CV Databases, Social Media platforms, Recruitment Marketing Campaigns
• Reporting on activity (daily/ weekly/monthly)
• Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Launched in 2022, Digital Intelligence is part of BAE Systems, and has a rich heritage in helping to defend nations and businesses around the world from advanced threats.

Division overview: Functions

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the business could not operate without all the dedicated work of our Functions teams. From Finance & Operations through Communications & Marketing, to HR and Site Operations and more, our Functions teams enable our divisions to implement ground-breaking digital transformations and crucial defence software.

As part of Functions, you will be supporting and partnering with our global business from the backline, being a strategic advisor within your specialist area, and ensuring the business runs smoothly and efficiently. We all have a role to play in defending our clients; and this is yours.

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