Employee Type
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Full-Time
Industry
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Other Great Industries
Manages Others
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Job Type
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Human Resources
Consultant
Education
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4 Year Degree
Experience
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Not Specified
Contact Information
Operating Company: Southern Company Services
Recruiting Consultant
Are you a recruiter looking for the unique opportunity to:
Join an industry-leading organization with aggressive and unique hiring needs?
Assume a highly visible recruitment role?
Gain training in leading-edge recruitment systems, methods and practices?
Apply your skills to full-life cycle recruiting projects?
Work independently, yet have the benefits of being part of a team?
...If this sounds like you, then we are looking for YOU to join our team!
Job Summary
The Southern Company Talent Acquisition organization is seeking to hire a highly professional, fast-paced, well-organized, full-time Recruiter. Your success in this role will depend upon your passion around full-life cycle recruitment while emphasizing a positive candidate and hiring manager experience, your strong recruiting experience in a high-volume corporate environment, your ability to consult with hiring managers to help them solve complex recruitment challenges, and your competence in matching great talent.
Core skills of a recruiter include:
Salesperson / Company spokesperson: ability to communicate company strategy, business plan, structure and point of view on key business topics to prospective candidates.
Candidate Relationship Management: establish relationships with candidates through appropriate correspondence.
Internal/External Client Relationship Management: establish and maintain effective relationships with hiring managers through strong consultative skills, expertise of external labor markets and best practice sharing.
Project Management: ability to plan, organize, track and deliver results by leveraging others and personal initiative.
Core Recruiting Skill Set: source, screen, and interview candidates for open positions.
The Recruiting Consultant is responsible for providing the highest level of recruiting services to generating plants and corporate functions. These services include recruiting and sourcing strategy development and implementation to meet business needs; screening and hiring of internal and external candidates; and consultations with managers, supervisors, and Human Resources partners around staffing and recruiting. A high degree of creativity, short and long term recruiting vision, business understanding, and personal organization is required.
This position will be located at 42 Inverness Center Parkway in Birmingham, AL.
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Maintain ownership of the full-life cycle recruitment process and hiring expectations.
Build strong relationships with the various line and functional clients to ensure the ability to influence, guide and drive the recruiting process.
Work closely with Hiring Managers and HR partners to meet hiring needs and ensure that hiring is consistent with business goals; increase candidate flow and develop strategic solutions that will attract and acquire high quality, diverse candidates.
Evaluate candidate backgrounds to match core competencies with key hiring requirements and assess fit.
Advance and execute against creative sourcing techniques for a range of positions from skilled labor to manager level positions; techniques include direct sourcing, internet recruiting, networking, utilization of external research, etc.
Integrate diversity into the sourcing and recruiting process.
Build and maintain a competitive intelligence database qualifying and extracting information from multiple sources to create a candidate pipeline for current and future hiring needs.
Implement an efficient and cost effective staffing model with an appropriate mix of internal and external talent.
Maintain compliance requirements for applicant tracking system.
Participate and lead career awareness events such as career fairs, informational sessions and interview preparation programs with local community groups, Technical Colleges and military bases.
Job Requirements
Education Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Communications, Marketing or related discipline.
Experience Requirements:
Recruiting experience with demonstrated knowledge of strategic sourcing strategies including direct sourcing, selection techniques and diversity recruiting in addition to excellent consultative, strategic thinking, problem solving, influential and interpersonal skills.
Prior work experience in a fast paced environment with high volume transactions and management of multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated ability to engage, consult and partner with both external and internal clients.
Experience working with computer-based tracking systems.
Previous participation in College/university/technical school/community at-large recruiting events.
Proven experience and success recruiting hard-to-fill, unique positions.
Online database mining for candidate leads and sourcing.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Knowledge in full-life cycle recruiting components, including but not limited to, sourcing, internet applicants, social networking, legal/compliance, wage and salary trends, and relationship management.
Demonstrated ability to cultivate strong business relationships with hiring managers and HR partners in the development of strategies, leveraging market intelligence and best practices.
Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with industry leaders, vendors, and community organizations, with proven ability to effectively network.
Knowledge and extensive past experience with implementing workforce strategies and understanding workforce plans.
Ability to develop, deliver, and execute multiple sourcing plans for a variety of positions, including exempt, non-exempt and skilled labor.
Ability to determine a candidate's viability for a position based on their work experiences, behavioral attributes, and overall fit for the organization.
Ability to effectively manage the offer process, including providing salary recommendations, handling offer negotiations, and closing the deal.
Demonstrated ability to recruit for a broad range of positions in a high volume environment.
Ability to develop diverse candidate pools through appropriate sourcing strategies and effective deployment.
Strong project management experience.
Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to properly interface with all levels within the company.
Ability to professionally develop, deliver, and present new recruiting concepts to leadership and technical communities.
Solid and highly effective candidate sourcing and screening ability, including utilization of internet search tools and techniques.
Effective time management and prioritization skills, resulting in effective and efficient results and outcomes.
Ability to interpret market trends and adjust recruitment strategies as needed in response to changes in the environment.
Strong marketing, selling and negotiation skills.
Behavioral Attributes
Must constantly remain focused on personal and job safety as a top priority.
Demonstrated passion and 'sales' approach to recruiting.
Customer focused.
Self-directed with strong initiative.
Willingness to do what it takes to deliver results.
Detail oriented.
Flexible, open to change, and adaptable.
Respectfully and appropriately challenges the status quo.
Must demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Company's values of unquestionable trust, superior performance and total commitment.
With 4.4 million customers and more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based
Southern Company
(NYSE:
SO) is the premier energy company serving the Southeast. A leading U.S. producer of electricity, Southern Company owns Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power, Southern Nuclear, Southern Power, SouthernLINC Wireless and Southern Telecom. Southern Company also has a growing competitive generation company. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices below the national average. Southern Company is consistently listed among the top U.S. electric service providers in customer satisfaction by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
We offer a competitive compensation package. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Job Type: Yes, 25% of the time
Travel (Up to...): Inverness Ofc Park Bldg 42 - 42 Inverness Center Parkway (42BIRMINGHAM)
42 Inverness Center Parkway
Birmingham, 35242
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