Job Description

Senior Technology Recruitment Specialist (360)

Basic & Commission Structure dependent on Level

Work from Home (Always)

Are you a skilled Tech recruiter looking for an exciting challenge? Do you have exceptional communication skills and a polished approach to your work? If so, we want to hear from you!

A 360 specialist recruiter in the Progressive Edge Recruitment business is a senior professional who is critical in identifying, sourcing and placing top technical talent for our valued clients across Cape Town. You will also need to be excited about bringing in new business and landing clients your area of expertise lies in both partnering with companies and great talent and walking them through the recruitment process while having fun doing so. You will be responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, and partnering with your client throughout the full recruitment cycle. The ideal candidate for this role will thrive in a quality-focused boutique specialist agency. In our niche, once you have a few clients it may get a bit too busy to keep doing everything, when that happens you will be supported in whatever way you need to be.

Our Value Proposition

Progressive Edge is a well-respected Boutique Tech recruitment agency. Our own clients are our best business developers and recommend us over and over again.

You will work in a powerhouse team with passionate recruiters together we play, strategize, bounce ideas off each other and support each other. No one works alone.

As a team, we are group of very different individuals who all love recruitment this is a rare thing but a prerequisite for working for Progressive Edge Consulting. We hold high standards and intentionally draw nearer to companies (clients) who do the same. This isnt just a job. This is a place where work is one of the ways we all grow and expand, and where we create opportunities for ourselves and others. This a role where you affect the lives of people, and where you help our clients progress with growing their business in complex technical areas, and drive processes to ensure that quality matches are being made, in an ethical and efficient way. Being good at what you do in this role will open up other opportunities within our company and teams for other individuals to support you and the work you generate from your clients. If togetherness and being more than lone wolf appeals to you then this will be the right spot for you.

We are also a fully remote business, we dont even have an office so we wont change our mind later! For those based in Cape Town, we meet up for chatty lunches from time to time, usually in a beautiful spot.

Heres who we are looking for from a personality perspective, is this you?

• A self-driven individual who cares about quality and takes pride in the work they produce. You need to have a polished approach to your work
• A person who can be relied upon by their teams, their clients and the candidates who trust them with their applications
• A person who values their reputation, and conducts their work in an honest and ethical manner, even when it means turning away placements, clients, candidates or saying no
• If you came from a dodgy agency you would need to leave some of those practices at the door! No marketing CVs without candidates knowing, no spamming, and no mass mails.
• You need to actually enjoy recruitment not everyone does, we are looking for those rare gems who do
• The ideal candidate will think out of the box when needed, to find solutions to recruitment challenges we face as a business. We are not looking to stay the same and keep working in the same way, we want people to help us continuously re-shape our way as a team
• You naturally build strong relationships, you have a kind demeaner, but can be firm when required
• You take initiative
• You close the loop on each piece of work without being asked to do so
• You are interested in, and excited by technology.
• Ability to look up and learn new areas of technologies that you dont have exposure to, to independently and continuously build your knowledge in your market to ensure more effective matches across various stacks and areas of technology
• You are people-centric and have a genuine care for the well-being of others, and yourself
• You have a sense of humour, along with a strong moral compass
• Committed to quality over quantity

These are the kinds of things that will keep you busy

• Build up a client base to service from a recruitment perspective preferably within a niche. We will support you with this but you will take the lead and will need to commit to the process and delivery of it
• Research, source, identify and interview candidates for open positions allocated to you to ensure you maintain these clients. We will also support you with candidates when you get too busy to do it all alone. You can either continue to focus on your clients or move into more of an account management function should your track record and personal interest support this
• Where necessary allocate your overflow roles to candidate-focused recruiters within the business
• Walk both clients & candidates through the entire recruitment cycle
• Update and maintain the ATS giving care to data quality
• Update & maintain both Project Management tools and activity sheets
• Both permanent and contracting positions may form part of your portfolio
• Contribute to the constant improvement of systems, tools & processes
• Implement your own operational structures to ensure you are meeting the volumes you need to in order to meet the expectations of the business, your clients, and anyone else you have committed to
• Work with the team in streamlining processes to continuously improve business processes and workflows
• Continuously attract talent by using multiple sources to advertise and recruit
• Continuously build a talent pipeline and referral network
• Negotiating offers
• Ad-hoc administrative duties
• Develop and update job descriptions
• Efficiently manage a strong candidate flow to the team
• Identify and implement new innovative ways to source and connect with talent
• Mentor more junior recruiters and share knowledge wherever you can
• Contribute to the culture of the team

Requirements:

• 3 to 4 years experience in AGENCY Recruitment at a minimum, seniors will need quite a bit more than this
• A polished approach to your work
• Experience in hiring for IT / Tech related positions essential
• Experience supporting a fast-paced organization.
• Experience using an ATS (applicant tracking system)
• Strong knowledge of various earning packages and ability to create comparisons to support your negotiations during the hiring stage
• Strong interviewing skills and ability to draw out the right information to gage suitability and fit for various positions
• Ability to connect with a wide range of people from junior through to exec level
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
• You need to have both the ability and confidence to engage with high-level candidates
• You will need a stable working track record.

Note: All applications without a Tech recruitment focus, or those with no agency recruitment experience will be rejected. We are specifically looking for an experienced Tech recruiter for this role.

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