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Kainos Hiring for Early Career Talent Acquisition Partner Job at Belfast, Northern Ireland Full Time
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Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?
Role overview
The Early Careers Talent Acquisition team at Kainos are responsible for the end to end recruitment of the business’s junior hiring needs. Based in locations across the UK&I, EMEA and North America, the team focus on driving campus recruitment activities and delivering a best in class candidate experience.
As an Early Careers Talent Acquisition Partner for UK&I, you will work closely with the business and your team members to manage the hiring of all junior talent across UK&I, acting as a brand ambassador for recruitment at Kainos, both internally and externally.
About you
You are passionate about giving young people from different backgrounds equal access to opportunities to develop their careers and you know how important the right attraction strategy is, in influencing this success. Creative and self-motivated, you enjoy building relationships with others through university engagement or wider student networks to promote Kainos as a global employer of choice. You love partnering with the business to educate them on what young people want and how to create a positive candidate experience from attraction through to onboarding.
Your role will focus on recruiting and selecting the best diverse talent across disciplines such as Software Engineering, Testing, Data, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Consulting and Services. Our company is in accelerated growth mode, so you will thrive in a fast paced environment and feel excited about the opportunity to create new ways of doing things.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Attracting and sourcing candidates for a variety of Graduate and Placement opportunities, delivering against business unit recruitment needs, aligned to commercial priorities and workforce plans within your region.
- Working in partnership with the Head of Early Careers, you will develop and drive a best in class hiring experience for all candidates globally from attraction through to onboarding and beyond, which aligns to Kainos values.
- Partnering with the business on setting hiring targets for Early Careers, reporting progress against demand and recommending interventions in areas with struggling pipelines.
- Designing and managing student engagement events, particularly creating and developing our schools strategy to improve our employer brand recognition on campus. This will include harnessing business support as brand ambassadors to promote what we do as a business, our unique employee experience and career paths.
- Developing and implementing talent pipelining strategies, ensuring these are consistently being employed in the right way, for example, converting candidates from our placement/intern programmes into permanent hires
- Driving diversity as one of the key enablers that supports business growth and our values.
- Maximising your usage of our recruitment technology and tools to drive efficiencies in our hiring process whilst retaining human contact in the key moments that matter.
- Supporting the Head of Early Careers to manage and plan recruitment budgets aligned to key growth areas and locations.
- Having an active personal brand profile on social channels and being a regular contributor of best practice Early Careers hiring techniques and knowledge sharing, both internally and externally.
- Supporting on continuous improvements projects within Early Careers but also across the wider Talent acquisition function based on what you’re passionate about or where you’d like to develop experience and expertise. .
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS:
- Previous experience as a recruiter in an in-house Talent Acquisition team within a growing company or fast paced environment.
- Ability to manage effective sourcing strategies, target required audience and strategically plan for hiring talent within specialist areas.
- Strong organizational skills with a proven ability to communicate and present effectively to stakeholders and groups of different levels of seniority.
- A proven ability to work independently and as part of a team with strong customer service and problem-solving skills.
- Confident in the use of MI to enable data driven discussions with stakeholders and meeting KPI’s set for recruitment delivery.
- An appetite for supporting continuous improvement opportunities in end to end processes to benefit operational efficiency and best practice.
- Good knowledge of recruitment tooling ATS and CRM systems, and in the use of MS Office suite of software.
DESIRABLE:
- Experience of hiring within Early Careers, campus engagement and student attraction
- Previous experience within a Global organisation
WHO YOU ARE:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren’t abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren’t abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.
We’re an inclusive bunch at Kainos and we believe in equal opportunity. We welcome applications from all walks of life, including those with criminal records. Everyone who is offered a position here undergoes a basic background check , however no one is treated differently due to their background where it isn’t relevant to the role. It’s important to note – failure to reveal information which is relevant to the position sought, could result in us having to withdraw the conditional offer of employment.
In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).