
Website Southwest Airlines
Job Description:
The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for proactively sourcing, building, and maintaining a stream of qualified active and passive candidates through various recruiting and sourcing techniques. Key duties include developing and driving the Candidate identifications strategy, generating interest and selling the Southwest value proposition, and screening Candidates to determine both position and culture fit.
Job Responsibilities:
- Use effective talent marketing communication strategies to build campaigns and messaging to potential prospects in targeted talent pools
- Assist with the writing, editing, and posting of requisitions, job descriptions, and general screening questionnaires by ensuring compliance and consistency and strategically posting to available talent platforms
- Partner with Recruiters and hiring Managers in order to ensure job requirements and expectations are clearly understood, ideal talent profiles are created to meet business needs, and ensure all parties remain informed and engaged with the progression of recruitment for the roles
- Screen Candidates for appropriateness of skills, experience, and knowledge by reviewing resumes, facilitating phone and face-to-face interviews, and conducting reference checks in order to evaluate skill level in relation to position requirements
- Educate Hiring Managers, Recruiters, and Employees on sourcing strategies, resources, and tools
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders.
- Grow talent pools for technical skill sets across the Company using innovative sourcing channels and techniques to find top talent including complex internet searches, social media, talent database mining, diversity resources, and networking
- Generate reports for stakeholders by analyzing key trends, return on investment, and business impact of existing sourcing strategies to provide a basis for data-driven decision-making and business need, as well as determine areas for improvement
- Develop and maintain a solid understanding of the competitive recruiting landscape including technical skill, demand for talent, resource availability, knowledge of competitive companies, and compensation plans in order to influence recruiters, hiring Managers, and HR Business Partners.
Job Requirements:
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously with frequent interruptions and time constraints
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other departments
- Required: 1 Year of sourcing experience
- Required: 2 Years of recruiting experience
- Ability to gain buy-in from stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to make decisions, think independently
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Ability to work under ambiguous circumstances
- Required: High School Diploma or GED
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts
- Ability to communicate with confidence and influence others
- Demonstrated mastery of Boolean and open web sourcing techniques
Job Details:
Company: Southwest Airlines
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Fort Worth, TX, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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