Microsoft Looking for Talent Sourcer at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

The purpose of this role, besides being extra cool, is to do talent sourcing activities for India. You will own sourcing strategies and outreach for Engineering, Sales and Services roles. The roles you will support are critical to the success of our business teams in India. You will be working closely with our leaders and staffing community to develop and land top talent.

As a member of our team, you will own engaging passive candidates for our core and pivotal roles. This role is more than simple recruiting, you should be able to talk about the Microsoft strategy and articulate career opportunities that engage passive talent. You must thrive in the hunt, and be focused on networking closely within the industry to identify the right talent and companies to target. You’ll cover the basics of recruiting, but more importantly, leverage your business knowledge to develop meaningful recruiting strategies which promote aggressive methods to source, evaluate, and pipeline technical candidates for Microsoft.

Responsibilities

Work with our business leaders and recruiters in defining and maintaining core and pivotal pipelines

Execute on tactical outreach, referral generation and pipelining efforts

Craft custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement

Work with teams to engage the business early in the recruiting cycle

You will own candidate relationships all the way to the point of an in-person interview, and will be tightly integrated into the feedback process during the interview process.

Recommend and drive improvements with recruiters and interviewing teams to effectively screen and assess talent.

Research and gather market intelligence. Understand and execute against shifts in the marketplace that present recruiting opportunities.

Track candidate activity and share with internal stakeholders

Be gutsy, move quickly, and always follow through

Qualifications

5-6 years of professional experience of which 3+ as a sourcer

Excellent research/sourcing skills. Including use of Boolean, LinkedIn and alternative search techniques.

Minimum of a bachelor degree

Ability to deliver results with little supervision, and effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects and candidates

Decisive and able to push back constructively when appropriate.

Good interpersonal skills and ability to network within the industry to identify top performers.

Pragmatic in implementation

Result Oriented

Effective communication skills

Excellent negotiation skills

Ability to meet standard measurements of success for Staffing such as: attainment against annual hiring plans, diversity goals and cost/time to hire standards

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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