Headhunter Job Description

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Headhunter provides insights and intelligence with respect to trends and opportunities.

Headhunter Duties & Responsibilities

To write an effective headhunter job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included headhunter job description templates that you can modify and use.

Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Proactively build and maintain candidate pipeline job positions utilizing various sourcing channels, including direct sourcing, social media, internet search, groups and other online forums, database search, external jobs boards

You will utilise technology to ensure speed of service and comprehensive candidate screening for your hiring managers, supporting and guiding your candidates through the recruitment and offer process

Create talent maps and develop innovative and creative sourcing approaches across existing and emerging channels to develop and grow talent within EMEA region (Europe, Middle East & Africa)

Working closely with your Recruitment Partner to jointly ensure all recruitment efforts, attraction strategies and campaigns are maximising opportunity for the business unit

Always, working collaboratively with the Recruitment Team and wider HR colleagues to share best practice, knowledge and ideas to drive the whole recruitment function forward

To be a Partner with Hiring Managers/Recruiting team (Talent Acquisition team) to understand key requirements for given role to be able to source potential candidates

You will utilise all sourcing tools available to you, and with the autonomy to seek opportunities you will use your creativity to find innovative ways to spot talent

Directly working in partnership with your business unit and Recruitment Partner to understand hiring needs and deliver against agreed hiring targets

You will ensure delivery against the speed of the business need, whilst also maintaining relationships to proactively create future-proof pipelining

To be a Partner with Recruiting team (Talent Acquisition team)/Hiring Manager to understand key role requirements and source potential candidates

Headhunter Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Education for Headhunter

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the headhunter job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Human Resources, Business/Administration, Psychology, Accountancy, Law, Finance, Business, Graduate

Desired experience for headhunter includes:

Engage and prescreen candidates for clarification or additional information on their resumes

Use network to source candidates for assigned open requisitions in Information Technology & Systems

Review and screen resumes to determine whether candidates meet the qualifications and cultural fit

Conduct phone screens, summarize results, and make recommendations to Talent Acquisition Partners regarding next steps

Get in touch with Talent Acquisition or Business Partners regularly and exchange information

Build talent pools and work with them efficiently in partnership with Talent Acquisition teams hiring managers directly

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