Senior Talent Partner

As a Senior Talent Partner at our consultancy, you will drive the entire recruitment process, ensuring a high-quality candidate pipeline and timely hires. You're responsible for maintaining a world-class candidate experience and building out diverse teams across various business units. You'll leverage your data-driven approach to educate hiring managers on best practices, contributing to our mission of evolving recruitment for innovative companies.

To be successful as a Senior Talent Partner, you should ideally have a proven track record in internal or embedded talent acquisition. If you're coming from an agency background, don’t worry; we provide tailored development pathways to help you transition. Demonstrated experience in expert-level sourcing, scaling in-house teams, and a deep understanding of recruitment metrics are key qualifications for this role.

We’re looking for candidates with a clear understanding of embedded talent acquisition and exceptional sourcing skills, especially using LinkedIn recruiter. A background working with fast-growing tech companies, an ability to look at recruitment metrics critically, and a proactive mindset in a hyper-growth environment will give you an edge in this position!

The Senior Talent Partner role involves a hybrid working environment, combining remote work with occasional in-office collaboration. We pride ourselves on having a diverse, international team distributed across various countries, which fosters a rich collaborative culture. You'll be part of a supportive team, including a world-class delivery team, driving innovative recruitment solutions.

As a Senior Talent Partner, your impact will be immediate and significant. By driving the recruitment lifecycle and providing an exceptional candidate experience, you’ll help scale leading organizations effectively. Your strategic insights into metrics, your ability to educate hiring managers, and your commitment to fostering a collaborative culture will all contribute to your success and the success of the companies you partner with.

When addressing this question, outline your systematic approach: assess job requirements, create compelling job descriptions, leverage creative sourcing strategies, maintain communication throughout the process, and ensure robust team involvement for a streamlined experience.

To ensure a positive candidate experience, stress the importance of communication and feedback throughout the process. Discuss how you personalize candidate interactions, provide timely updates, and strive for a clear and respectful communication style that sets the tone for future employer-employee relations.

Choose a relevant project where you played a key role. Highlight your specific actions, the strategies you applied, the outcomes achieved, and any lessons learned, ensuring you showcase your ability to drive successful talent acquisition efforts.

Discuss your approach to understanding and aligning with a company’s culture. Mention how you tailor your recruitment strategies to attract candidates that fit the company’s ethos and values, and emphasize your research and adaptability to different environments.

Be prepared to discuss software and recruitment management systems you're familiar with, emphasizing your proficiency in utilizing these tools to gather data, analyze recruitment performance, and inform future strategies based on actionable insights.

Share your organizational skills and methods for prioritization, such as using digital tools for task management and actively communicating with stakeholders. Demonstrate your ability to juggle multiple responsibilities effectively while maintaining quality.

Explain your strategy for creating engaging training sessions or materials that educate hiring managers about best practices in recruitment. Stress how you employ data-driven insights to facilitate their understanding and participation in the process.

Discuss the balance of soft and hard skills needed for the role. Highlight qualities like empathy, adaptability, strategic thinking, and robust communication skills, while also emphasizing the importance of data analysis and sourcing expertise.

Provide a specific example of a challenge you faced in recruitment and detail how you approached it. Focus on problem-solving strategies, collaboration with team members, and learning experiences that enabled you to overcome the issue.

Emphasize your commitment to diversity and inclusion. Discuss the methods you use to reach diverse talent pools, including partnerships with organizations focused on underrepresented groups, diverse job boards, and targeted outreach on social media.