Talent Acquisition Business Partner 2

DPP is seeking a Talent Acquisition Business Partner for our client in the Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing industry.

Work location: Fully remote

Duration: 5 months

Terms: W2 contract

Work authorization:

Position description:

• The Talent Acquisition Business Partner (TABP) will join the Sourcing team and directly impact the quality of candidates our client hires by sourcing and pre-screening top-quality talent in the marketplace.
• This role requires a social media savvy sourcer to support aggressive hiring goals.

Key responsibilities:

• Providing sourcing support for a variety of engineering and technical business management and functional areas, to include sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters.
• Managing competing priorities, remaining highly flexible in an ever-changing environment while consistently anticipating and delivering exceptional talent acquisition solutions to recruiters.
• Sourcing and recruiting qualified talent while maintaining excellent customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.
• Working closely with client-facing recruiters and hiring managers to understand the hiring needs and building a targeted sourcing plan.
• Supporting events-based sourcing, focused invitational events, and targeted career fairs.
• Attracting cleared talent to the company and have a knowledge base of security clearances.
• Ensuring data integrity of the candidate management database.

Other responsibilities include:

• Sourcing:
• Utilizing professional networks to source candidates for active requisitions
• Sourcing candidates from a variety of sources, with a strong emphasis on LinkedIn, HireEZ, ClearanceJobs.com, Indeed.com, social media, and search engines (Google Chrome, Google X-ray, advanced Boolean searching strings and niche job boards).
• Using social networking mediums (i.e., LinkedIn groups and other online forums) to promote employment brand messaging that drives traffic to open roles by establishing and promoting positive relationships.
• Utilizing CRM to track day-to-day sourcing activity in the candidate management system.
• Successfully sourcing and attracting passive external talent.
• Leveraging sourcing data in weekly conversations with hiring managers and TA leadership.
• Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
• Conducting phone screens to pre-qualify qualified candidates and maintaining candidate contact.

Consultation:

• Attaining a high-level understanding of our business, program, technological and cultural challenges.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of the external recruiting landscape within their function.

Assessment and selection:

• Accurately assessing candidates (via in-person or phone) for cultural, competency and skill fit.
• Quickly synthesizing candidate and hiring manager feedback.
• Routinely pre-closing candidates (early in the process) to ensure high acceptance rates.

Basic qualifications:

• 2+ years of sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience
• Must have strong experience sourcing passive candidates on LinkedIn Recruiter, HireEZ, SeekOut, or Juicebox
• Experience with sourcing technical talent across various engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace) and non-technical disciplines (business, production, operations, supply chain).
• Previous experience sourcing cleared talent.

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous experience in both agency and corporate recruiting.
• Prior experience sourcing and/or recruiting in Aerospace and Defense.