Randstad Canada Looking for Talent Acquisition Partner at North York, Ontario, Canada Full Time

This position is an exciting opportunity in which you will be able to truly gain an understanding into the mechanics of a business and play a real part in the success of the delivery of its programs. This is a frontline position in which you will have a “seat at the table” rather than just working as part of a back office HR team. We are looking for someone that is truly passionate about understanding their customer and consistently exceeding their expectations by delivering the best possible talent.

Advantages

• Further develop your skills working or a global leading engineering, aerospace, and transportation company
• Work full time hours on a 6 month assignment
• Earn $57/hr
• North York, ON location (hybrid position, 2 days/week in office)

Responsibilities

• Act as a champion of Thales Canada’s Integrated Talent Acquisition Strategy, including influencing key stakeholders at all levels of the organization to adopt new processes, tools and behaviors.
• Provide “thought leadership”, strategic advice, coaching on all areas of Talent Acquisition activity
• Partner with the key stakeholders across the business to drive continuous improvement in the quality, speed and cost of hiring
• Influence key stakeholders to align expectations to the external marketplace
• Personally own the full Talent Acquisition lifecycle for assigned roles, from requirements definition, sourcing, selection through to onboarding
• Deliver a number of technical and senior level positions
• Own the Hiring Manager relationship, coaching them through the head hunting process, their role within it, creating appropriate target lists and a compelling value proposition to sell to passive candidates
• Personally assess candidates’ competence, cultural fit and motivation, and present robust shortlists with an appropriate mix of internal, external, active and passive candidates
• Promote best practice selection, coaching hiring managers where necessary and taking ultimate responsibility for high quality hiring decisions
• Champion compliance with Thales policies and procedures throughout the resourcing lifecycle, including ensuring comprehensive and accurate information is maintained in key systems (e.g. Workday) to consistent standards across the team.
• Champion the ‘search’ based Talent Acquisition process, clearly define Hiring Managers’ roles and set performance expectations
• Create, present and own strategic improvement plans for the assigned Business Unit / Function(s) based on customer feedback, market intelligence, business needs and strategic resourcing knowledge
• Analyze and feedback input and output metrics to highlight areas for process and behavioral improvement
• Implement process improvements as directed
• Support local implementation of Thales Group process improvement programs as required
• Deliver formal and informal coaching to all levels of the organization, from senior members of the Leadership Team to first time Hiring Managers
• Influence managers to continuously improve process, practices and behaviors

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in a Talent Acquisition role with prior experience managing Engineering, IT, Software and Corporate recruitment.
• 2+ years of in-house corporate recruitment experience required
• 3+ years of experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, Google, and X-Ray Sourcing.
• Able to positively influence at all levels of an organization up to VP, and to develop valued relationships with Senior Executives, Managers and Candidates alike.
• Politically savvy, flexible and with a strong drive to achieve desired outcomes in an environment of constant change, competing priorities and objectives.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to interpret complex information, identify trends, create strategic action plans based on the information and gain sponsorship for these at domain board level.
• Able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of current organization’s core business, organization, strategic direction, challenges and aspirations, and articulate how resourcing can input and add value to these within assigned domain.
• Lead, model, manage and coach the organization in best practice selection techniques
• Able to model desired behaviors in a corporate environment, be the ultimate role model for the team in terms of behaviors, standards and best practice.
• Personal powers of resilience and tenacity; takes personal responsibility for resolving performance issues before they impact on the business; consistently sees things through to completion

Summary

Are you interested in the Talent Acquisition Partner position in Toronto? Apply online today!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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