Packt

: A Packt Talent Business Partner takes up challenges, uses creative methods to spot talent and has the ability to engage with potential candidates across functions. As part of our Talent

Acquisition team, your core responsibilities will be to handle the end-to-end recruitment process for junior and mid-level hires across our businesses. If this has excited you so far, read on.

Have you ever had to negotiate with someone? Had to adapt your approach depending on your audience? Ever had to push yourself to achieve the best results?

The ability to be compelling and persuasive, develop relationships and work as part of a team,

meet hiring targets and compete for the best results, is what will set you apart as a successful

Talent Acquisition team member here at Packt.

We're looking for a candidate with 2+ years of experience of working in the Talent Acquisition team of a corporate, or a recruiter in a placement agency. You should have excellent communication, interpersonal and client servicing skills, with the ability to clearly communicate in discussions and written documents, and the ability to deliver regular updates and feedback clearly and tactfully. Being part of a creative, aggressive and growth-driven team, your major goal will include connecting dots between manpower requirements and business goals.

And we all know that recruitment can be tough; so, you must be able to overcome adversity.

If you feel you’ve got what it takes, and this still excites you, read further on!

Experience Range: 1 - 5 years

Educational Qualifications: Any graduation

Job Responsibilities: JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

You will make your impact in Packt by supporting the talent acquisition function as below:

- Global Sourcing & Recruitment

● Manage the interview process including - sourcing and screening resume, selecting candidates for interviews, conducting interview kick-offs and debrief sessions, manage the offer approval process, negotiate offers, extend offers and reject candidates.

● Make global outgoing candidate calls & qualify relevant candidates. Through thorough telephonic and personal interviews, determine and gauge employment factors like work experience, educational qualifications, technical skills, role-specific competencies,

achievements & other pertinent data to make qualitative shortlisting decisions.

● Leverage on innovative and efficient global sourcing methodologies like Naukri.com,

LinkedIn, Facebook, and other global crowdsourcing tools.

● Demonstrate success in global headhunting and mapping, to source candidates with niche skills.

● Fulfill business hiring requirements as per assigned monthly targets.

● Handle communication within the team, and aid in preparing schedules for recruitment activities and their execution.

● Prepare hiring managers for interviews, and transition relevant candidate-specific information. Verbally extend offers of employment,



and leverage on fellow senior recruiters for guidance around complex negotiations.

● Plan, conduct and participate in post-offer pursuits of candidates (communication,

email/telephonic queries).

● Provide exemplary hiring manager as well as external candidate experience.

- Managing Relationships

● Manage ongoing candidate relationships, all through the recruitment life-cycle.

● Keep others apprised of, and involved in work, by communicating information and status to senior recruiters and the Talent Business Manager. Coordinate work cross-functionally and influence peers and/or managers.

● Continuously build and strengthen relationships with internal stakeholders.

● Partner with the business and act as an advisor, creating synergy and agility of decision-making.

● Partner with senior recruiters to leverage on sourcing channels to build a pipeline of both active and passive candidates, so as to meet hiring demand and monthly productivity targets.

● Network within the recruitment marketplace, so as to understand competitive landscape and compensation practices. Gain market intelligence by talent mapping and performing competitor analysis for business teams.

- Analytics & Reporting

● Maintain timely and accurate data in the Applicant Tracking System.

● Leverage analytics for identifying and correcting lags within the current recruitment processes.

● Ensure weekly, monthly & quarterly trackers and reports are updated consistently.

● Ensure regular attendance at weekly and monthly individual & team meetings.

● Assist the Head of Talent Acquisition with MIS reporting.

● Track and update the Recruitment Planner on a daily basis.

- Performance Metrics

● Role targets will be reviewed and set quarterly. A minimum of 85% closures (offers, not joiners) are to be achieved every month.

● Every role filled should clear probation to be considered a successful closure at the time of review.

As a recruiter, you know that today’s fast-paced, global competitive talent market makes it hard to land excellent candidates. To get the best of the best, you and your hiring managers need to be on the same page. Expectations need to be set ahead of time, candidates need to move fast through the interview process, and decisions need to be made quickly.

But, as I’m sure you’ll agree - it rarely happens that way!

But here’s the good news - we have the power to solve all hiring problems, while also turning ourselves into a valuable resource and employer-of-choice for candidates.

How?

By transforming yourself from a recruiter … into a strategic Talent Business Partner.





Skills Required: Recruitment , Global Sourcing , Global Talent Acquisition

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📌 Associate/Talent Business Partner (Mumbai)
🏢 Packt
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