Talent Partner - Technology

As a Talent Partner focused on Technology hiring within our Global Talent Acquisition Team, you will be responsible for the full end to end talent selection process. In your everyday work you will contribute towards achieving one of our core multiyear goals to become a truly talent and skills-based organisation. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company through your abilities to find and match great people to great roles both internally and externally. As part of this you will be focused on creating the best possible candidate and manager experience, driving innovative hiring strategies to meet specific needs. You’ll embrace new technologies, ideas and ways of thinking to drive new solutions to business problems and be a brand ambassador for the areas you support. You will love to influence through data and experience, operate at pace while always striving to delivering quality results for the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Hiring Managers and HR teams across your specific area to identify hiring needs or skills gaps as they arise. Leveraging all the tools in your tool kit to find the best and fastest solution to solve the need - (Tool Kit= Including but not limited to Direct sourcing via LI/Indeed and search data bases, Advertising marketing and campaign creation, social sourcing and activation, Application management, Creative referral campaigns, Pipeline building and management and Active Networking)
• Own and control the full end to end process to drive towards a successful conclusion in all instances.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand business direction, strategies and WFP/ forecasts and build proactive strategies to create and drive engaged talent pools to enable a faster route to market once positions are open.
• Partner with HR and management teams to understand internal bench strength and succession plans to support internal upwards mobility as well as driving engagement through great career opportunities for our own teams.
• Operate as a strategic thought partner for the business, building strong relationships with your hiring teams and leverage your experience and influence to drive a best-in-class recruitment and candidate experience.
• Operate with a growth mindset challenging your own and others thinking to consistently evolve talent practises to achieve greater results.
• Monitor and drive your own performance against pre-set criteria, always striving for excellence.
• Operate as one with your peers and the broader HR teams, prioritising and being agile providing support one another as needed.
• Leverage data to influence business thinking and support on talent decisions.
• Be a champion and ambassador for diversity and unbiased hiring as a lever for business growth.
• Stay relevant and up to date with industry trends, demographic shifts, new technologies, platforms, or channels for us to explore.
• Provide the best possible experience be it for candidates, employees or managers

About you

• Operates as a strategic talent partner with strong experience recruiting for Software Engineering
• Experienced in leveraging market insight and data to support key hiring or talent decisions/movements.
• Knows what great recruitment looks like and can demonstrate successful execution of the end-to-end proactive talent attraction/acquisition services and strategies.
• A desire to delight the customer – whether that be a candidate or a manager.
• Being positive, collaborative, agile and adaptable is part of your DNA.
• Has fun with new technologies and understands how to use them to automate tasks when needed.
• Focused on being the best Talent partner possible with the core objective of helping the business achieve its goals to drive growth.
• On trend, you are up to date on industry/tech/candidate preferences within the market and use these to inform recruitment decisions.
• Are performance driven – challenging yourself and others to achieve

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Job: Human Resources

Job Family: HUMAN RESOURCES

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

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Req ID: 20838