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Talent Acquisition Specialist
The Opportunity
You have the opportunity to deliver a best in class candidate experience and identify talent in the 
market directly. We’re looking for someone like you who has the autonomy to become a key 
business partner to your stakeholders, offering advice on best practice defining a sourcing strategy 
to deliver the end-to-end recruitment processes across your portfolio.
Your Key Responsibilities
You’ll spend most of your time independently driving the planning, coordination and delivery of 
recruitment for a specific business area or sub service level. Partners, Directors and Senior 
Managers will look to you for best practice, market knowledge and the ability to source exceptional 
talent. Furthermore, you will act as an ambassador, embodying the EY culture and reputation.
Skills and Attributes for Success
• Delivers appropriate recruitment plans based on knowledge of recruitment methods and 
concepts
• Adds value by demonstrating a thorough understanding of trends and market knowledge of 
sector using knowledge to inform actions and sourcing plans
• Demonstrates an understanding of assessment methods e.g. competency-based 
interviewing, psychometric testing, technical testing and assessment centres
• Develops knowledges of the business, the external market and trends and ensures that this 
knowledge is made available to the business and RBP/ team as appropriate
• Is responsive to business needs, demonstrating solutions through own actions and 
proactively proposing ideas and solutions
• Advocates for D&I and reviews sourcing and attraction methods to ensure they are 
attracting a diverse pool of candidates
• Demonstrates an awareness of the recruitment market – understanding the key players, 
mapping of relevant markets and actively tracking careers of the people we want to hire
• Keeps abreast of market intelligence and, in particular, of key events which might indicate a 
good source of resource
• Demonstrates knowledge regarding the type of measures and targets that are set for 
recruitment - holds awareness of these targets while delivering work
To qualify for the Role you must have:
• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment while managing more specialist briefs
• Able to implement recruitment strategy once it is operationalised; able to identify the 
recruitment implications of certain elements of the strategy
• Solid experience of recruiting direct candidates from a variety of sources - headhunting 
candidates directly for vacancies, resourcing candidates from job boards, recruitment 
portals etc.
• Ability to quickly pick up full account management of key recruitment areas
• An advocate of KPIs
• Solid experience of direct sourcing methods
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
Ideally, you’ll also have
• Time and project management skills – able to plan and manage time effectively and flex up 
and down to deal with key priorities
• Relationship building skills - with the ability to challenge senior management where 
necessary, always acting with integrity
• Demonstrates a willingness to look beyond the task at hand and consider the broader 
picture
• Demonstrates calm and objectivity when under pressure
What We Look for
You will be an experienced Recruitment Advisor with a passion for direct sourcing and desire to 
provide an exceptional candidate experience. You will also work closely with Partners and Directors 
across the business so the ability to build strong and effective relationships, delivering at times 
difficult messages, will also be key.

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