West Coast University Hiring for Talent Acquisition Partner Full Time

**This is a Hybrid role where you will work in the office 3 days/week and from your home office 2 days/week.

Summary:

ing to the Director, Talent Acquisition, the Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for recruitment of candidates for American Career College, West Coast University, and Administration. Working collaboratively in a multi-faceted, multi-location academic setting, the Talent Acquisition Partner provides a comprehensive full life-cycle recruitment process that includes developing recruitment strategies, evaluating candidates through independent interviews to determine whether candidates would be a good fit, selecting qualified candidates to recommend to the hiring manager, consulting and guiding hiring managers through interviewing, selection, and placement functions as it relates to position control. Delivers high quality candidates. Assists with day-to-day guidance and direction on recruitment policies and procedures, championing an environment that promotes American Career College, West Coast University, and Administration as a premiere place to work.

Responsibilities:

• Provides exceptional client service and full lifecycle recruiting for American Career College, West Coast University and Administration. Establishes, cultivates, and maintains partnership with hiring managers in order to understand the department and its staffing strategies, and fulfill its recruitment needs. Demonstrates courtesy, diplomacy, and tact in interactions with internal and external customers.
• Develops recruitment strategies that reflect current and future goals of the department. Decides own sourcing techniques and methods to identify employees. Strategies may include, but are not limited to online recruitment, campus recruiting and job fairs, and targeted recruitment.
• Consults with the hiring manager to determine the types of skills needed for the position. Decides who to recruit and develops complete and detailed search assignments (client engagement documents) with appropriate content/information, ensuring an understanding of job duties, responsibilities, and department requirements.
• Determines effective recruitment methods based on their own experience and knowledge of a variety of sources. Executes their own recruitment strategies and aggressively recruits well-qualified candidates. Builds and maintains network of potential candidates through on-going relationship building such as pro-active market research, networking, and direct contacts with candidates via phone.
• Utilizes independent judgment and discretion in evaluating candidates. Assesses resumes and credentials for appropriateness of skills, education, experience and knowledge in relation to the position to determine whether the candidate would be a good fit. Provides complete and accurate information to candidates about American Career College, West Coast University, Administration, the position, and benefits.
• Interviews candidates via phone, zoom, or in person using their own questions which they develop to evaluate a candidate’s skills, experience, personality, and knowledge and whether the candidate would be a good fit for the position. Creates prescreening questions and collaborates with hiring manager for approval. Exercises discretion to select candidates for the job opening. Decides which candidates to recommend to the hiring manager.
• Prepares candidates for interviewing with specific hiring managers by providing detailed information on American Career College, West Coast University and Administration, business strategy, department background, job descriptions, and expectation-setting. Coaches candidates for interviews with specific hiring managers as appropriate. Manages and coordinates all communication with candidates.
• Organizes, leads and documents post-interview debrief/feedback and post-mortems with interview teams and candidates. Evaluates feedback to determine whether further assessment of candidate is required and makes appropriate recommendations to hiring manager (e.g., such as recommending further interviews with certain members of department or recommending obtaining additional information from candidate regarding particular qualifications). Reviews the hiring manager’s interview performance with each candidate to provide guidance to hiring manager regarding effective interview techniques.
• Assesses results from background checks, references, certification and licensure, education, and other appropriate qualifying data established for the position to evaluate candidate and make recommendations to hiring managers consistent with policies and procedures.
• Develops and implements a recruitment strategy, job posting optimization, recruitment marketing channel development, job board procurement, digital and non-digital employment marketing and comprehensive recruitment campaign planning.
• Confers with the hiring manager regarding offers of employment and specific terms of the employment offer within the guidelines of the compensation policy. Extends offers of employment to selected candidates and engages in further negotiations as appropriate.
• Maintains American Career College, West Coast University and Administration position control system with hiring manager. Complies with departmental approved budgets.
• Leverages the Applicant Tracking System in conjunction with the life-cycle recruitment process including candidate sourcing, job position, requisition tracking and ing.
• Recommends ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of American Career College, West Coast University and Administration.
• Develops and maintains a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates. Creates and fosters relationships with colleges and professional organizations to attract and recruit candidates.
• Ensures the timely and cost-effective fulfillment of all open requisitions with quality talent, leads a proactive approach to updating hiring managers and key leadership regarding open positions.
• Develops and utilizes a multitude of strategies for attracting talent including, but not limited to: social media, job boards, internet sourcing, college recruiting programs, participation in employment events and career fairs.
• Maintains accurate and well-ordered documentation on candidates, searches, hiring managers’ interactions, and other recruiting activities to ensure a safe and thorough audit if required. Collects and analyzes data on demographic and hiring activity for use in designing future recruitment plans.
• Initiates and maintains excellent working relations within the Human Resources organization. Uses effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed, appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts verbally and in written form. Provides information and responds in a timely manner.
• Visits departments at each campus as appropriate to develop a thorough understanding of the department culture and to help potential candidates fully understand the opportunity at American Career College, West Coast University, and Administration.
• Participates in the development of ongoing creative and cost-effective sourcing strategies. Researches and stays informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques in order to be competitive in state-of-the-art recruiting practices.
• Determines best practices and manner in which to promote American Career College, West Coast University, and Administration, such as recruitment functions, job fairs, and career events.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field required.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Two (2) or more years of previous experience in full-lifecycle recruiting.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships.
• An expert level of knowledge in all full-lifecycle recruiting components including, but not limited to, sourcing, qualifying, networking, assessing, legal, relationship management, and due diligence.
• Knowledge and extensive past use of a server-based applicant tracking system.
• Experience with building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.
• Excellent project management, writing and verbal communication skills are required.
• Evidence of strong principles and practices of recruitment including knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations; recruitment, selection and placement; and position control processes.
• Must be internet savvy and experienced in mining online databases to supply the most accurate information, s and projections.
• Experience with MS Office.
• Knowledge of education/governmental compliance and regulatory standards such as Title IV, WASC, and other accreditation standards preferred.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Ability to manage competing demands, accept criticism and constructive feedback, while being extremely adaptable and flexible.
• Ability to present new recruiting concepts to leadership.
• Ability to build search assignment abstracts from client engagement discussions and forms.
• Demonstrated ability to function/recruit on a national, multi-location level.
• Ability to deal with and maintain very sensitive and highly confidential information.
• Strong initiative and solid judgment abilities/skills.
• Must have the ability to quickly learn systems, processes, and procedures.
• Must be able to quickly assimilate technical information and build solutions to the optimal balance of meeting business needs, beating competitors, and operating within financial resource constraints.
• Ability to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust through collaborative decision making/problem solving in a non-adversarial manner.
• Ability to effectively use interpersonal skills, follows through with duties.
• Ability to use creative facilitation and conflict resolution skills to resolve difficult and sensitive issues.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to demonstrate strong professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to self-direct, self-pace, multi-task and function well under pressure of deadlines and conflicting priorities.

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