Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Talent Acquisition Business Partner at a Major Aerospace Company

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will play a crucial role in shaping the quality of talent hired by a major aerospace company. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-impact sourcing team, where talent acquisition is paramount to organizational success. We are seeking a social media-savvy individual to support aggressive hiring goals, someone who embodies our core values and passion for delivering exceptional service to candidates and internal customers.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive sourcing support for a variety of engineering, technical business management, and functional areas.
• Manage competing priorities in an ever-changing environment, consistently delivering exceptional talent acquisition solutions.
• Source and recruit qualified talent while maintaining excellent customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with client-facing recruiters and hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop targeted sourcing plans.
• Support events-based sourcing, focused invitational events, and targeted career fairs.
• Attract cleared talent and possess knowledge of security clearances.
• Ensure data integrity within the candidate management database.

Strategic Talent Acquisition

• Apply a business mindset to the talent acquisition function.
• Research market conditions and industry trends related to competitors to inform decision-making and position marketing.
• Connect all talent management phases: acquisition, development, retention, and culture.
• Leverage data and market intelligence to develop and execute staffing strategies.

Sourcing Expertise

• Utilize professional networks to source candidates for active requisitions.
• Source candidates from diverse channels, with a strong emphasis on LinkedIn, HireEZ, ClearanceJobs.com, Indeed.com, social media, and advanced search engines (Google Chrome, Google X-ray, Boolean searching, niche job boards).
• Employ social networking mediums (e.g., LinkedIn groups) to promote the employment brand and drive traffic to open roles.
• Track day-to-day sourcing activity and candidate interactions using CRM.
• Successfully source and attract passive external talent.
• Leverage sourcing data in weekly conversations with hiring managers and TA leadership.
• Conduct extensive data mining across social media to identify candidate profiles.
• Perform phone screens to pre-qualify candidates and maintain consistent contact.

Consultation, Assessment, and Selection

• Attain a high-level understanding of business, program, technological, and cultural challenges.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of the external recruiting landscape within your function.
• Accurately assess candidates (in-person or phone) for cultural, competency, and skill fit.
• Quickly synthesize candidate and hiring manager feedback.
• Routinely pre-close candidates early in the process to ensure high acceptance rates.

Working Schedule

This position operates on a 9/80 schedule, allowing employees to work nine-hour days Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience sourcing technical talent across various engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace) and non-technical disciplines (business, production, operations, supply chain).
• Previous experience sourcing cleared talent.
• Experience sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter or other advanced sourcing platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in both agency and corporate recruiting environments.
• Prior experience sourcing and/or recruiting specifically within the Aerospace and Defense industry.

Key skills/competency

• Talent Sourcing
• Recruiting
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Boolean Search
• Candidate Relationship Management (CRM)
• Technical Sourcing
• Cleared Talent Acquisition
• Social Media Sourcing
• Market Intelligence
• Stakeholder Management