Senior talent scout- Global Creative at The Talent Boom

Job description

If you are looking for the awesome, we’re probably it! You might have seen our cool adverts online and in the papers. You may have played our awesome creative game we launched this year, or you could have heard about us in the industry. Now, we’re hiring for a digital talent scout to join us at The Boom House Cape Town.

We need a team player, a hot talent matcher, a booming great recruiter and a rock star in building relationships.

We need someone who has a magnetic energy, thinks positive at all times and wants to learn and make money!

The company description

We're a global executive search agency with offices in Cape Town, SA and Amsterdam, NL. We're in the creative, advertising, tech, digital and fintech world and we love what we do matching top-notch talent around the globe and breathing new life into the international recruitment world.

Our main places where we recruit is Europe, Asia, US and of course Africa. Locally, we focus on the whole spectrum of the creative, tech and digital world which covers middleweight to heavyweight vacancies, both client side and agency side.

The job

We are looking for a senior creative talent scout for our Cape Town office to service our global clients.

The role is 100% scouting for the best talent across EMEA and building powerful relationships with passive talent. There's no business development/sales involved it's all delivery.

• Relationship management:
• You’ll be scouting the local and international market through our network and using events, social media, word of mouth plus headhunting
• Connecting with the best talent matching them with open positions with our clients
• Interviewing/portfolio reviews either via Skype if it's for a global opportunity or face to face if it’s local
• Sharing portfolio and career advice
• Active on social media posting out our jobs and creative content
• General HR admin inc reference checking

The person

You’ll ideally have a number of years of recruitment sourcing or talent scouting experience under your belt with experience across any sector with the desire to niche within the creative industry.

• If you are in internal recruitment and looking to partner with a mixture of brands rather than recruit for just one, this would be an ideal move for you.
• Great eye for talent
• Ability to speak to talent and clients on all levels
• Recruitment is what you make of it so we’re looking for bright, ambitious self-starters looking to earn great money each month from our unique commission plan
• Able to work to targets
• Global mindset
• Up for an exciting journey and challenge

The benefits:

• Negotiable basic salary
• Bonus each month. There’s no desk fees, so you’ll get a commission on everything you bill from R1 onward! We offer bonus from 12% to 30%
• We are an expanding growing company so you will have the opportunity to grow as well as place your mark with us
• Work laptop
• 17 days holiday
• Incentives on top of bonus to includes giveaways from mac books to trips abroad
• Loads of fun

The approach:

Blank emails with just your CV attached will not be reviewed.