Recruitment Specialist -Tygervalley at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• As a Recruitment Specialist, you’ll be required to create a pipeline specifically relating to specialist, critical and scarce skills, for hard-to-fill roles. You’ll be working with internal and external partners to help you get the job done. Your clients operate in a wide spectrum of disciplines in the business – and all are world-class in their fields. Your knowledge of recruitment and selection has to be unassailable as their business partner.   

What will make you successful in this role?

•     Develop an acute understanding of the business and provide solutions tailor-made for business needs.
•     Recruit for diverse assignments such as new business projects, acquired businesses and for the current operations. 
•     Align recruitment and selection to Glacier’s transformation plans especially related to specialist, critical and scarce skills.
•     Support the full cycle recruitment process from requisition through to the onboarding of candidates as is fit or purpose. 
•     Ensure that job profiles/descriptions for vacancies are complete and up to date.
•     Draw up job postings and craft job ads to attract suitably qualified, experienced and culture fit candidates.
•     Headhunt for talent, targeting passive candidates and approach specific markets to address succession gaps.
•     Network with potential candidates through professional groups, online and during events such as job fairs. 
•     Apply expertise and knowledge in sourcing candidates countrywide via a variety of direct sourcing platforms ncluding internal and external advertising, LinkedIn, social media and online recruitment portals.
•     Maintain a database of potential candidates for future talent requirements.
•     Implement and embed hiring processes, providing guidance and advice on routes to market and provide market and data insight to help stakeholders make informed decisions about the hires they make.
•     Screen, arrange interviews, and drive the process of assessments and conducting competency-based interviews here appropriate.
•     Provide feedback and negotiate the offer of employment.
•     Reduce recruitment spending by using direct sourcing methods to source candidates.
•     Maintain excellent working relationships with hiring managers, employees, and prospective candidates. 
•     Report regularly to the hiring manager, HR management and senior leadership on the progress of all ongoing recruitment processes.
•     Based on recruitment process feedback from line manager and candidates, implement changes to methods to foster continuous process/experience improvement.
•     Track hiring metrics including time-to-hire, time-to-fill, and source of hire.
•     Measure the results of potential and successful candidates through experience surveys.
•     Assist and support HR management with annual recruitment and capacity planning.
•     Build and report on quarterly and annual hiring plans.
•     Ensure compliance with all legislation underpinning recruitment such as the Employment Equity Act and recruitment policy.
   
•     Bachelor's degree in an HR field 
•     A minimum of five years’ experience as a Recruitment Specialist, Recruiter, or similar role. 
•     Knowledge of sourcing techniques on social media and niche professional websites like LinkedIn.
•     Recruitment experience within the financial, investment or related industry.
•     Recruitment experience with a background of agency, ‘in-house’, direct and online.
•     Global and countrywide recruitment exposure is advantageous.
•     An understanding of employment law and/or labour law.

Qualification and Experience

• Degree with 5 to 6 years related experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Human Resources Administrative Support
• Strategic Human Resources Planning and Implementation
• Change Management
• HR Best Practices
• HR Compliance

Personal Attributes

• Courage - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Manages complexity - Contributing independently
• Ensures accountability - Contributing independently.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently