Talent Specialist-Temporary
Beth Israel Lahey HealthAbout the role
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Position Summary: In partnership with TA/HR Leadership, the Talent Specialist (TS) will implement recruitment strategies that provide a best-in-class candidate experience, providing full cycle support from the initial sourcing/application phase through offer. The TS will partner with hiring managers to evaluate skill levels, drive interview best practices, negotiate competitive offers, document selection activity, and disposition all candidates. Establishing stakeholder partnerships deeply rooted in trust and collaboration is essential. The TS will proactively develop and mine talent pipelines to produce a slate of high-quality candidates by utilizing enhanced social media sourcing techniques, networking, prescreening, and interviewing. The TS will serve as a subject matter expert by developing a strong foundation related to BILH business operations and workforce market data, providing insight to leadership and stakeholders to improve performance to meet/exceed goals.Job Description:
Role Responsibilities:
Drive Recruitment Process: Develop expert-level knowledge and expertise of assigned functional areas to construct and implement best-in-class recruitment strategies to attract high-quality talent. Advise hiring managers and stakeholders on matters related to candidate screening and selection; Prepare and negotiate job offers.
Candidate Sourcing: Identify and utilize various sourcing tools/methods that target and engage high-potential passive and active candidates, including ATS searches, social media platforms, networking, direct outreach, and attending recruitment events. Foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion while taking purposeful steps to recruit a diverse workforce. Collaborate with TA Leadership and TA Operations Sourcing team on researching and implementing innovative sourcing strategies to enhance recruitment efforts.
Candidate Assessment: Conduct applicant screens, in-depth interviews, assessments, and evaluations to determine a match for qualifications. Consult with and provide candidate recommendations to hiring managers and stakeholders. Serve as a talent advocate that supports and promotes an environment of culture add vs. fit.
Market Knowledge: Utilizes market intelligence and workforce data to develop innovative and competitive recruitment strategies to identify and attract talent. Act as a lead consultant to assigned client areas regarding healthcare recruiting trends, specific business intelligence, and various recruiting tools/strategies.
Vacancy Management: Ensures vacancy management is properly maintained for reporting purposes.
Collaboration: Work closely with hiring managers, stakeholders, and senior HR leaders to ensure talent acquisition strategies, including job posting information are relevant to local business needs/goals; Provide guidance related to BILH hiring practices, policies, and procedures.
Relationship Management: Through strong written and oral communication, establish and maintain effective partnerships with hiring managers and cross-collaborative leaders. Liaise with BILH HR colleagues and HR Centers of Excellence, as needed, to support talent acquisition activities and initiatives. Build and maintain relationships with potential talent to ensure a positive candidate experience. Serve as a talent advisor to internal talent to support and encourage staff development.
Decision Making: Able to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. Make recommendations for solving problems of high-level complexity and importance.
Problem Solving: Able to identify and address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents. Use contextualized data that offers findings, insights, and solutions; escalation to TA Leadership, as needed.
Uphold Recruitment Standards and BILH TA Service Level Agreement: Ensure the quality and effectiveness of recruitment activities for designated client areas. Respond to hiring managers in a proactive and timely manner, educate managers on the hiring process, and recommend/implement process improvements to T
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