Senior Talent Sourcer

• Drives the adoption of the candidate assessment framework and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices that ensure high-quality hires. Ensures adoption and best practices and scalability. Identifies opportunities for process improvement.

• Manages candidate screening framework, and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices that ensure effective, inclusive screening processes and a qualified talent pool. Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates. Influences inclusive selection decisions, and consumption of diverse talent.

• Uses deep knowledge of market opportunities to differentiate Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards and leverage a consistent, compelling message that conveys the most significant motivators to prospective candidates. Works with talent marketing to create compelling on-brand attraction campaigns. Works with hiring managers to develop a compelling, consistent message on the Microsoft story and the opportunity it represents to prospective talent. Demonstrates ability to identify and present talent to the business as aligned to both the hiring needs and candidates aspirations.

• Shares proven methodologies and partnerships that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates. Analyzes the quality of the output associated candidate activity using systems and tools and shares with internal stakeholders. Helps develop learning and training resources for others teams in Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to help advance outcomes and capabilities.

• Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors. Identifies competitive techniques and advantages within our scope for hiring and consults with the business to develop employer value proposition (EVP). Delivers differentiated pitch and provides opportunities to learn how to deliver pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal (e.g., compensation, benefits, perks, career development).

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle, often for critical, complex, high level or high volume candidate searches. Owns the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all stages of the process by proactively identifying factors that may impact the candidate and partnering with hiring managers/business leaders to develop appropriate acquisition or mitigation strategies. Ensures operational excellence by managing candidates through the application tracking system (ATS).

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Reviews and analyzes business and market data and trends to improve performance, and uses insights to support across teams. Connects data to cross-organization goals and leads conversations across groups to address broad hiring issues and opportunities. Leads the implementation of a hiring plan that addresses business demand, priorities and availability of talent for a division’s, set of countries, or subsidiary’s short-term and long-term needs (12 months and beyond).

• Performs deep analysis of external market data leveraging industry/market expertise, providing market and channel insights to the business to recommend and drive strategies and talent acquisition initiatives.

• Maintains current documentation/information on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation). Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.

• Leads the adherence to and optimization of staffing policies, systems, and processes throughout their stakeholder community, and guides stakeholders on the impact of non-compliance.

• Consults a division, region, or subsidiary on critical talent needs and opportunities. Presents and frames information in a way that speaks to the business priorities and influences leaders to embrace and consume differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional, unconsumed or runner-up candidates from previous searches) that may not be typically considered. Uses enhanced experience of creative methods to create/consume differentiated and alternative talent pools.

• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of business priorities to advise on talent acquisition strategy across one or more a business group, industry solution area, or subsidiary on the implications of talent gaps. Consults with leaders to understand demand plan and may identify work and resource allocation.

• Applies deep knowledge and consultative skills relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget, inclusivity) and uses this knowledge to manage the execution of end-to-end hiring plans aligned to the needs of the business group, division, region, or subsidiary. Engages with senior-level stakeholders to develop hiring plans.

• Identifies current and future talent needs through proactive exploration and analysis of market supply. Proactively consults leaders to provide clarity of talent market insights.

• Brings critical or high level candidates/niche hard to find talent through the interview and closing process, ensuring candidate needs (e.g., onboarding, relocation, Visas, critical dependencies) are met. Closes candidates by anticipating and responding to objections from the business while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Negotiates appropriately with the client/stakeholder to drive solutions that balance their short- and long-term talent needs, with an understanding of the business opportunities that may exist. Identifies bias in the interview and closing process and ensures the right discussions are being had around this (e.g., calling out, educating, providing alternatives).

• Leverages long-term relationships with talent pools and communities across the industry. Develops a comprehensive approach that integrates multiple concepts (e.g. talent community building and engagement, business/market intelligence) to create an innovative sourcing strategy for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries. Creates and presents effective reports to the business that provides key insights and market intelligence that help form effective sourcing strategies.
• Regularly scopes the market for changes, trends, and opportunities to incorporate into planning.

• Develops and implements multi-channel pipeline strategies to meet hiring demand targets for differentiated talent for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries. Develops pipeline strategy best practices and continues to research and design new methods to advance the Sourcing function and meet the evolving changes in the market.

• Assesses and defines talent/diversity gaps and hiring needs (e.g., skills, volume of hires) of a large-scale or complex/multi-discipline/multi-org. Presents this information to hiring managers and/or business leadership team, recommending and driving hiring plans and strategies to meet needs.

Other

• Embody our culture and values