Lateral Talent Acquisition Senior Advisor

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, timely and cost-effective recruitment outcomes for assigned Practice Groups and Business Teams across all our offices in Asia. As a Senior Advisor, you will quickly establish a strong reputation and gain the confidence of stakeholders by consistently providing an outstanding recruitment service. You will be viewed as a trusted advisor on all operational recruitment matters. By developing a deep understanding of your client groups, you will provide valuable commercial insights to your team and actively contribute to the broader talent agenda.

Key Responsibilities

Resourcing

• Manage end-to-end recruitment process including sourcing, screening, interviewing and offer negotiation.
• Work with Partners and Hiring Managers to identify hiring needs and skill sets and determine a resourcing plan to meet the hiring needs
• Develop and manage candidate ‘talent pools’
• Test validity and comprehensiveness of job descriptions at the start of the recruitment process
• Explore available resourcing options, to include the employee referral scheme, internal publications, alumni network, internet channels, advertising, and recruitment agencies

Sourcing and attraction strategy

• Establish innovative sourcing and attraction strategies to attract the right people from the widest pool for each vacancy / recruitment campaign
• Determine the key selling messages for each area of the firm, aligned with the global recruitment messages
• Liaise with the Lateral TA Manager to ensure a co-ordinated and consistent approach globally and to share best practices between offices

Selection and assessment

• Establish strong collaboration with the Recruitment Assistant and Advisors to provide a seamless, high-quality end-to-end candidate experience.
• Determine and manage the relationships with partner organisations to ensure access to a diverse candidate pool of the highest quality
• Implement robust, consistent selection and assessment frameworks to enable fair and high-quality hiring decisions across lateral recruitment.
• Advise on selection tools (including online testing and case studies)
• Work with hiring managers to establish screening criteria for each role. Interview candidates and provide an independent, competency-based assessment
• Advise hiring partners on recruitment best practices and diversity awareness
• Support and constructively challenge hiring managers on selection decisions at interview and offer stage to ensure hiring outcomes are consistent and aligned to firm standards.

Relationship building

• Develop internal relationships with key stakeholders across the Practice Groups and Business Teams
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with our preferred recruitment agencies
• Develop and maintain a network of external recruitment contacts to keep abreast of good practices and market updates
• Act as the lead person for all recruitment knowhow issues
• Share successes and regular updates with the broader HR team

Key Requirements

Character

• Able to influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Collaborative and a strong team player
• Confidence to constructively challenge, where required
• Proactive and enthusiastic
• Innovative and strategic in thinking
• Works well under pressure

Education / Qualification

• University Degree or equivalent

Languages

• English (essential)
• Cantonese (preferred)
• Mandarin (preferred)

Practical experience

• Strong in-house recruitment experience within a professional services environment
• Excellent interviewing skills
• Knowledgeable in selection techniques and direct sourcing options

Office skills

• Able to multi-task effectively
• Computer literate – good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong experience using an online recruitment tool. Prior experience working with Workday and/or Beamery would be a plus.
• Adopting new tools and technologies (including AI-enabled solutions) to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

Commercial Skills

• Commercially aware
• Comfortable working with data

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.