Senior Recruitment Lead
Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- Extensive experience in recruiting for all levels of roles from various disciplines
- Able to work at pace – dealing with numerous vacancies at any time
- You have demonstrable experience of managing and evolving a sizeable recruitment team
- Strong reporting/analytical skills
- Experience having sole responsibility for vacancies, from approval through to offer
- Successful track record creating innovative, progressive approaches to recruitment delivery and candidate sourcing methodologies
- Strong business partnering skills, networking and relationship-building skills
- Success in hiring technical talent in a highly competitive market
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business objectives into executive recruitment priorities
- Experience of using Microsoft applications and applicant tracking systems
- An understanding of creating effective talent pooling and building pipelines
- Experience of working within a target driven, fast paced environment, whilst managing a team / resources effectively
- Experience of planning complex assessment centres within strict guidelines
- Excellent communication & presentation skills for successful sharing of complex data in understandable formats
Desirable:
- High Volume & Niche Recruitment experience within the public sector
- In-House Recruitment Experience
- Previous experience of using Taleo / OTAC
- Experience using specialist techniques (i.e. Boolean searching) to source candidates on a diverse range of channels (i.e. Facebook, Google Plus, etc)
- Previous experience in Police assessment centres
- Previous experience of working with the College of Policing
- Previous experience of using Fusion
- Previous experience of processing security cleared offers
- CIPD Qualified or other relevant qualification
Skills
Essential:
- Deadline/target driven
- Positive attitude and pro-activeness
- Ability to prioritise high and conflicting demands effectively
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Influential (both up and down)
- Inspirational
- Strong decision-making and problem solving skills
- Experience of developing strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- High accuracy levels in work with clear attention to detail
- Confident in working collaboratively in a team as well as independently
- Inquisitive, flexible and adaptable
- Able to learn new processes and systems quickly and effectively
- Role model for Diversity and Inclusion
- Successfully managing through others
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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