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When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
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Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Sourcing Recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team where you will be working closely with the regional Talent Acquisition team, identifying passive and active candidates for a variety of positions across multiple countries in CEMEA, with a primary focus on SSA region. This role is key to ensuring the successful sourcing and engagement of high quality and diverse talent for Visa.
What we expect of you, day to day.
- Engage with Talent Acquisition Partners and Hiring Managers to understand role requirements, overall expectations, timeframes, candidate pool quality and quantity.
- Become Visa storyteller to the world, sharing inspiring information with candidates about Visa, our business strategy, culture, current and future opportunities.
- Attract, engage and advise potential talent with candidate experience being a top priority and Visa Employee Value Proposition being front of mind.
- Continuously measure conversion rates, including numbers of passive candidates who turn into applicants, interviewees and ultimately accept offers.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Talent Acquisition Partners and Hiring Managers to create partnerships that yield success, predictable results and credibility.
- Leverage all aspects of sourcing including but not limited to LinkedIn, job board mining, internet sourcing, social networking, employee referrals and networking events.
- Identify talent in hard-to-reach places, learn about their skills and motivations and educate them on the culture and opportunities with Visa.
- Utilize a variety of tools and resources to uncover premium untapped talent.
- Conduct research to identify, evaluate and prioritise target companies and locations to headhunt from.
- Proactively develop, grow and maintain a network of external prospects to feed into and nurture Visa talent pools.
- Champion lead generation initiatives to drive a continuous high-calibre candidate flow.
- Align to business strategy and deliver against metrics.
- Create innovative sourcing strategies and recruiting campaigns to target top talent.
- Proactively provide data and market insights to stakeholders and business leaders making strong recommendations to inform key recruiting decisions.
- Deliver continuous improvements in the quality, time and cost of hiring via strategic and efficient candidate identification.
- Track and use data driven techniques and analysis to solve sourcing problems, define success and translate metrics into usable insights for stakeholders.
- Stay informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques to be able to lead the way with industry best practice.
- Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation in our applicant tracking system on candidates, hiring manager interactions and other recruiting activities.
Qualifications
3+ years of talent sourcing experience in a multinational environment
- Independent, flexible and motivated individual who loves the challenge of finding and converting extraordinary talent into hires.
- Expert level knowledge of new and innovative search methodologies and tools which include sourcing beyond LinkedIn.
- Ability and drive to continually explore/test/maximize sourcing strategies.
- Ability to juggle multiple requisitions at one time, manage a high-volume workload and deliver results in a fast-paced, demanding growth environment.
- A sense of urgency to deliver for the business while effectively working together as part of a team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build rapport, develop relationships and proactively keep stakeholders informed.
- The ability to influence key stakeholders with the courage to challenge and set expectations.
- Solutions orientated with the ability to solve complex sourcing challenges.
- Experience delivering successfully against metrics in tight timeframes.
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
