VP, Talent Acquisition Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the VP, talent acquisition opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for leadership and mentoring to the US talent acquisition team, executing effective recruiting strategies for the region, plans and processes, implementing best practices and technology.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• A creative understanding of sourcing using non traditional focus on social media and digitization
• Possess a solid understanding of Executive Compensation
• Corporate/Search firm executive placement experience
• Familiarity with equal opportunity hiring processes and diversity inclusion is also necessary
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven success managing multiple internal clients with varying recruiting needs (cross-group collaboration)
• Fluency with analytics and data interpretation
• Travel throughout APAC regional offices
• Solid leadership and mentoring skills to lead a team of recruiting professionals

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the VP, talent acquisition position.

Previously, I was responsible for insights and recommendations on recruiting strategies and best practices that contribute to the overall achievement of our vision: Deliver a world-class hiring experience to the following stakeholders: candidates, hiring managers, business stakeholders, and Talent Acquisition at large.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Highly skilled and proven success in influencing, collaboration and relationship building across all levels of the organization, including executive and senior management
• Experienced in implementing, utilization and management of HR & Recruiting technology tools, such as applicant tracking systems, on-boarding systems, conferencing tools
• Exceptional creativity and innovation abilities for development of strategies, options and problem resolution
• Strong networking and sourcing capabilities
• Results and resolution-oriented in a fast-paced environment
• Views individual and team development as a strategic imperative and is committed to ensuring their continuous growth and development
• Provide technical and organizational leadership for the management of the function, sourcing techniques, best practices assessments
• Develop professional partnering relationships with organizations and/or educational institutions to assist in the discipline/function’s strategy

I am excited to be applying for the position of VP, talent acquisition. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to the recruiting team and hiring leaders on best practices for hiring, selecting, onboarding talent at all levels.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience in use of applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruitment technology
• Well versed in contemporary recruiting platforms including social media and mobile
• Demonstrated knowledge of strategic sourcing strategies including direct sourcing, selection techniques and diversity recruiting, operational orientation
• Excellent consultative, strategic thinking, problem solving, influence and interpersonal skills
• Provide overall leadership for the Company’s enterprise-wide talent acquisition function, including clinical/professional hiring, branch staff, regional management, and home office recruiting by modeling behaviors that exemplify the Company’s values to develop staff that are devoted and accountable for results
• Ensure compliance with all external regulatory and internal policy recruiting and hiring requirements (EEO tracking, background screening, pre-employment drug screening)
• Implementing staffing strategies that will ultimately improve the talent acquisition process attract a best of class talent
• Developing and implementing a recruiting brand management and social media strategy that will enhance and compliment the recruiting and talent acquisition strategies

In response to your job posting for VP, talent acquisition, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for recruiting best practices based on Global Talent Acquisition guidelines to other HR members whenever necessary.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Taking responsibility for all talent acquisition metrics, reporting and the integrity of the data, ensuring data accuracy, timeliness and effectiveness of tool for past trends and forecasting
• Develops and maintain performance metrics that provide clarity of trending, benchmarking and insight for making program and process improvements
• Leading strategic staffing discussions with business leaders and HR partners to appropriately and continually align recruiting objectives with evolving business objectives and demonstrate the use of non-traditional recruiting methodologies
• Develop relationships, manage and partner with external vendors and other groups (e.g., military) to ensure best practices and models are implemented
• Oversee the selection and management of external search partners and talent acquisition vendor relationships ensuring the proper mix of in-house and external staffing resources
• Decentralized environment experience preferred
• Experience with leading organizations in organizational development, talent acquisition, talent development or talent management necessary
• Exemplifies the Company’s core values and philosophy and leads by example with the highest level of integrity, trust, respect and collaborative style

In response to your job posting for VP, talent acquisition, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to talent acquisition team and hiring managers on interviewing best practices, offer recommendations, negotiating/creating job offers, closing, and administrative functions involved in full cycle recruiting.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Improve Talent Acquisition process/resources to ensure team is able to proactively source talent and create pipelines for future needs (overseeing CRM integration project already in progress)
• Increase offer acceptance ratio
• Leverage internal talent pipeline
• Optimize RPO partnership(s)/vendor(s), identifying additional areas for outsourcing
• Execute Talent Assessments where appropriate in the new TM organization, insuring that high-potential leaders and associates are properly utilized, and that critical strategic needs are staffed with top talent from across TA, L&D and OD
• Deep industry knowledge/experience recruiting creative talent
• Experience leading talent acquisition teams and across multiple functional areas
• Demonstrated success of process improvement efforts