Takealot Careers – Talent Acquisition Consultant

Job Description:

Support our business to proactively find and engage with the best talent in the industry. Our ideal candidate is a people person with a passion for supporting others on their career journey. A self-starter, with a real focus on finding the best talent in the industry and being comfortable with keeping talent engaged.

Job Responsibilities:

• Evaluate candidate fit by engaging in behavioural interviewing techniques
• Proven experience using innovative research & sourcing methods to hire niche skills and ‘hard to fill’ roles
• Recruitment reporting and feedback on process and practices
• Drive and Execute effective sourcing solutions to ensure a sufficient pipeline of candidates is generated in order to satisfy planned and opportunistic business growth
• Encourage an equally amazing process within hiring teams, including thorough strategy meetings, interview debriefs, training and process review when necessary
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company
• Sourcing expert in finding skills required within the particular area or domain supported
• Manage the end-end recruitment process ensuring high-touch candidate experience with outstanding follow up and the ability to communicate a thorough knowledge of the overall business as well as that of the individual hiring client group that you’re working with
• Proven experience in partnering effectively with all types of teams and levels of professionals
• Manage the closing process with candidates which requires skills in active listening, negotiation and follow-through

Job Requirements:

• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.

Qualification & Experience:

• Proven track record of headhunting at various levels.
• Relevant Degree or Diploma preferred or equivalent in years of experience
• CTS/ATS experience with sourcing, tracking, and managing candidates.
• Must have experience building effective hiring manager relationships.
• 3 – 5 years in Talent Acquisition experience as a consultant specializing in Executive Search (Talent Mapping, Market Insights, Executive C-Level)
• Data Reporting and Insights experience is a must-have
• MS Office- including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Job Details:

Company: Takealot

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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