Talent Acquisition Specialist at Microsoft

• As a Talent Acquisition Specialist you will partner directly with Hiring Managers to hire world class talent for the various business areas we have at Microsoft. You'll assesses the business needs and competitive landscape to develop and execute hiring plans. You'll focus on delivering a great candidate experience supporting candidates throughout the hiring lifecycle and identifies motivators to engage and close candidates.

Responsibilities
This is a 360 degree recruitment role, working and influencing stakeholders while also driving our diversity and inclusion agenda.

• You will develop hiring plans for a business, area, or subsidiary. You’ll also use and develop new business stories to elicit interest from active and potential candidates.
• By owning elements of the candidate experience, you’ll prepare them for the next phase of the hiring process while identifying factors that may adversely affect them.
• You’ll engage candidates for immediate and future needs, and develop strategies to generate differentiated talent for long-term business needs.
• You’ll present businesses with talent gaps, market and channel insights to inform hiring plans.
• You will need to analyse data and trends to provide insights to the business you support to influence hiring focus and outcomes (e.g compete, diverse, nontraditional).
• Inclusion is one of our core values, and you’ll be helping our leaders to live and breathe this throughout our hiring process.

Qualifications

• 5+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role.
  • Multicountry regional recruitment experience