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Contract Sourcing/Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred
  • Four (4) years of recruiting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required
  • Strong sourcing skills (utilizing online job boards, networking, research, and social media)
  • Knowledge of social media

Responsibilities

  • Proactively documents, identifies, and delivers active and passive candidates for current and future staffing needs
  • Utilizes tracking mechanisms to address passive talent sourcing, competitive sourcing, and business/market news
  • Develops functional sourcing processes to address current and future staffing needs
  • Partners across the broader talent acquisition team to ensure the entire staff and management are educated about various markets

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Microsoft Office
  • Social Skills
  • Organizational Skills
  • Team Effectiveness
  • Prioritization
  • Ability To Meet Deadlines

About the company

Sedgwick Ireland logo

Sedgwick Ireland

  • Insurance
  • Startup
  • 201–500
Sedgwick, previously operating under the OSG Vericlaim brand, is Ireland's largest and longest established Specialist Third Party Administrator and Loss Adjuster. We are a SEDGWICK Company and part of the Global Sedgwick Organisation backed by the resources of the Leading Global Provider of technology enabled risk and claims solutions we can truly offer a local market based service operating to market leading international standards. Having built on our history and heritage as Chartered Loss Adjusters, today we provide a diverse and extensive range of outsource services for the Insurance and Financial Sectors in Ireland and Internationally. A unique business model incorporating industry and market experience, the application of behavioural science, lean process management and modern technology sets Sedgwick apart from the competition in our chosen markets. Providing the service layer between our clients and their customers we have a proven pedigree and reputation for operational excellence delivering the widest range of specialist and technical services in the market. The Sedgwick difference is our People and a desire to develop our talent for the benefit of all our stakeholders. Taking Care of People "Caring Counts” is at the heart of everything we do and the guiding principal in the development of Sedgwick becoming the leading broad based service provider we are today. We are Regulated as an Insurance Intermediary with the Central Bank of Ireland, have full EU Passport status and meet all Fiduciary and Corporate Governance Standards.

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Job description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

Newsweek Recognizes Sedgwick as America’s Greatest Workplaces National Top Companies

Certified as a Great Place to Work®

Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance

Contract Sourcing/Talent Acquisition Specialist

PRIMARY PURPOSE: To support strategic sourcing plans in order to develop a talent pipeline for the current and future staffing needs of the organization using social media, sourcing techniques, employer branding, and cold-calling; to maintains an active talent pipeline.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIESSTRONG

  • Proactively documents, identifies, and delivers active and passive candidates for current and future staffing needs by utilizing multiple strategies and practices such as social media, referrals, industry events, and cold-calling.
  • Utilizes tracking mechanisms to address passive talent sourcing, competitive sourcing, and business/market news.
  • Develops functional sourcing processes to address current and future staffing needs to include social media, cold calling, boolean strings, job boards, and other sourcing techniques; determines which channels best service client needs; and builds and leverages relationships with diverse professional organizations and networks to attract and build talent pipelines.
  • Partners across the broader talent acquisition team to ensure the entire staff and management are educated as to our various markets and play an active role in solutioning our responses to the competitive market challenges; partners with talent acquisition teams in the presentation and selection of sourced talent.
     

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Performs other duties as required.
  • Supports the organization's quality program(s).
  • Travels as required.
     

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Licensing

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.

Experience

Four (4) years of recruiting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Previous sourcing experience strongly preferred.

Skills & Knowledge

  • Strong sourcing skills (utilizing online job boards, networking, research, and social media)
  • Knowledge of social media
  • Good talent acquisition skills
  • Workforce planning and analysis skills
  • Strong oral and written communication, including presentation skills
  • PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Excellent negotiation skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work independently and in a team environment
  • Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies
     

WORK ENVIRONMENT

When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations.

Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines

Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required

Auditory/Visual: Hearing, vision and talking

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Management retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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