Recruiting Consultant
Company: Southern Company
Location: Naperville
Posted on: June 19, 2022
Job Description:
Recruiting ConsultantDescriptionThe Southern Company Talent
Acquisition organization is seeking to hire a highly professional,
fast-paced, well-organized Recruiting Consultant. Your success in
this role will depend upon your passion around full-life cycle
recruitment while emphasizing a positive candidate and hiring
manager experience, your strong recruiting experience in a
high-volume environment, your ability to consult with hiring
managers to help them solve complex recruitment challenges, your
ability to source and identify talent and your competence in
matching great talent.Core skills of a recruiter include :
- Salesperson / Company spokesperson: ability to communicate
company strategy, business plan, structure and point of view on key
business topics to prospective candidates.
- Candidate Relationship Management: establish relationships with
candidates through appropriate correspondence.
- Internal/External Client Relationship Management: establish and
maintain effective relationships with hiring managers through
strong consultative skills, expertise of external labor markets and
best practice sharing.
- Project Management: ability to plan, organize, track and
deliver results by leveraging others and personal initiative.
- Core Recruiting Skill Set: source, screen, and interview
candidates for open positions.The Recruiting Consultant is
responsible for providing the highest level of recruiting services
to a variety of business units. These services include recruiting
and sourcing strategy development and implementation to meet
business needs; sourcing, screening and hiring of internal and
external candidates; and consultations with managers, supervisors,
and Human Resources partners around high volume staffing and
recruiting. A high degree of creativity, short and long term
recruiting vision, business understanding, and personal
organization is required.Job ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities
include but are not limited to the following:
- Maintain ownership of the full-life cycle recruitment process
and hiring expectations.
- Build strong relationships with the various line and functional
clients to ensure the ability to influence, guide and drive the
recruiting process.
- Work closely with Hiring Managers and HR partners to meet
hiring needs and ensure that hiring is consistent with business
goals; increase candidate flow and develop strategic solutions that
will attract and acquire high quality, diverse candidates.
- Evaluate candidate backgrounds to match core competencies with
key hiring requirements and assess fit.
- Advance and execute against creative sourcing techniques for a
range of positions from skilled labor to manager level positions;
techniques include direct sourcing, internet recruiting,
networking, utilization of external research, etc.
- Integrate diversity into the sourcing and recruiting
process.
- Build and maintain a competitive intelligence database
qualifying and extracting information from multiple sources to
create a candidate pipeline for current and future hiring
needs.
- Implement an efficient and cost effective staffing model with
an appropriate mix of internal and external talent.
- Maintain compliance requirements for applicant tracking
system.
- Participate and lead career awareness events such as career
fairs, informational sessions and interview preparation programs
with local community groups, Technical Colleges and military
bases.
- Some overnight travel may be requiredJob
QualificationsEducation Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Communications, Business
or related discipline preferred.Experience Requirements:
- Recruiting experience with demonstrated knowledge of strategic
sourcing strategies including direct sourcing, selection techniques
and diversity recruiting in addition to excellent consultative,
strategic thinking, problem solving, influential and interpersonal
skills.
- Prior work experience in a fast paced environment with high
volume transactions and management of multiple projects
simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to engage, consult and partner with both
external and internal clients.
- Experience working with computer-based tracking systems.
- Experience with Taleo preferred
- Previous participation in Military recruiting events, technical
colleges and community at-large recruiting events.
- Online database mining for candidate leads and sourcing.
- Previous experience recruiting for call center and entry level
physical labor positions a plusKnowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge in full-life cycle recruiting components, including
but not limited to, sourcing, internet applicants, social
networking, legal/compliance, wage and salary trends, and
relationship management.
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate strong business relationships
with hiring managers and HR partners in the development of
strategies, leveraging market intelligence and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong working
relationships with industry leaders, vendors, and community
organizations, with proven ability to effectively network.
- Knowledge and extensive past experience with implementing
workforce strategies and understanding workforce plans.
- Ability to develop, deliver, and execute multiple sourcing
plans for a variety of positions, including exempt, non-exempt and
skilled labor.
- Ability to determine a candidate's viability for a position
based on their work experiences, behavioral attributes, and overall
fit for the organization.
- Ability to effectively manage the offer process, including
providing salary recommendations, handling offer negotiations, and
closing the deal.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit for a broad range of positions
in a high volume environment.
- Ability to develop diverse candidate pools through appropriate
sourcing strategies and effective deployment.
- Strong project management experience.
- Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to
properly interface with all levels within the company.
- Ability to professionally develop, deliver, and present new
recruiting concepts to leadership and technical communities.
- Solid and highly effective candidate sourcing and screening
ability, including utilization of internet search tools and
techniques.
- Effective time management and prioritization skills, resulting
in effective and efficient results and outcomes.
- Ability to interpret market trends and adjust recruitment
strategies as needed in response to changes in the
environment.
- Strong marketing, selling and negotiation skills.Other
Attributes
- Must constantly remain focused on personal and job safety as a
top priority.
- Demonstrated passion and "sales" approach to recruiting.
- Customer focused.
- Self-directed with strong initiative.
- Willingness to do what it takes to deliver results.
- Detail oriented.
- Analytical skills
- Flexible, open to change, and adaptable.
- Respectfully and appropriately challenges the status quo.
- Must demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Company's values
of unquestionable trust, superior performance and total
commitment.Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is America's premier energy
company, with 44,000 megawatts of generating capacity and 1,500
billion cubic feet of combined natural gas consumption and
throughput volume serving 9 million electric and gas utility
customers through its subsidiaries. The company provides clean,
safe, reliable and affordable energy through electric utilities in
four states, natural gas distribution utilities in seven states, a
competitive generation company serving wholesale customers across
America and a national recognized provider of customized energy
solutions, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications.
Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service,
high reliability and affordable prices that are below the national
average. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation,
Southern Company and its subsidiaries are inventing America's
energy future by developing the full portfolio of energy resources,
including carbon-free nuclear, 21st century coal, natural gas,
renewables and energy efficiency, and creating new products and
services for the benefit of customers. Southern Company has been
named by the U.S. Department of Defense and G.I. Jobs magazine as a
top military employer, recognized among the Top 50 Companies for
Diversity by DiversityInc, listed by Black Enterprise magazine as
one of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity and designated a Top
Employer for Hispanics by Hispanic Network. The company has earned
a National Award of Nuclear Science and History from the National
Atomic Museum Foundation for its leadership and commitment to
nuclear development and is continually ranked among the top
utilities in Fortune's annual World's Most Admired Electric and Gas
Utility rankings. Visit our website at
www.southerncompany.com.Disclaimer : This information describes the
general nature and level of work performed by employees in this
job. The description is not designed to be a comprehensive
inventory of duties, responsibilities and qualifications required
in the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified
disabled individuals for performance of essential duties and
responsibilities.Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer
where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability,
veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.Job
Field: Human ResourcesJob Type: StandardPrimary Location:
Illinois-Metro Chicago-NapervilleOperating Company: Southern
Company GasJob Type: StandardTravel (Up to...): Yes, 25 % of the
TimeWork Location(s):G O Naperville - 1844 W Ferry Rd.
(1844NapervilleCODE)1844 W Ferry Rd.Naperville, 60536Req ID:
GAS2004086
Keywords: Southern Company, Naperville , Recruiting Consultant, Human Resources , Naperville, Illinois
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