Microsoft

At Microsoft, we believe in empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more and that starts with exceptional talent. As a Recruiter specializing in Early in Profession hiring, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Microsoft by bringing in the next generation of innovators and leaders. You’ll design and deliver strategies to attract diverse, high-potential talent from universities, apprenticeships, and early career programs, ensuring they experience Microsoft as a place where they can learn, grow, and make an impact from day one. If you’re passionate about building inclusive teams, influencing business leaders, and creating opportunities that change lives, this is your chance to make a real difference

Early in Profession Strategy & Planning

• Develop and execute a comprehensive EiP recruiting strategy aligned with business priorities.
• Analyse market and campus trends to advise on talent availability and competitive positioning.
• Partner with internal peers and business leaders to forecast early talent needs and hiring volumes.

University & Campus Engagement

• Build strong relationships with universities, student organisations, and career services to enhance Microsoft’s brand.
• Design and deliver campus events, hackathons, and virtual engagement programmes to attract diverse talent.
• Act as a Microsoft ambassador at bespoke and tailored events, and conferences

Candidate Attraction

• Delivers differentiated pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal (e.g., compensation, benefits, perks, career development).
• Shares best practices on sourcing, recruiting, and/or closing techniques and stories with their own team.
• Tracks candidate activity using systems and tools.
• Elicits interest in passive, active, and potential candidates by telling the business story, and contributes to the development of new stories.
• Generates awareness through community outreach events and strategic networking related to future hiring needs.

Candidate Experience

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle.
• Owns elements of the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process.
• Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate experience.
• Maintains Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure timeliness of process completion.

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight, and consults with a business, area, or subsidiary to implement a hiring plan that addresses both business demand and talent availability for short-term and near-term needs (2-6 months).

Market Analysis and Channel Insights

• Synthesizes, analyzes, and interprets external market data, and provides market and channel insights to the business to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition initiatives.
• Develops sourcing strategy using market and channel insights.

Operational Compliance & Excellence

• Maintains current documentation/information on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation).
• Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.
• Uses subject matter expertise on applying internal and external staffing policies, standards, and/or regulations throughout the entire staffing lifecycle to educate clients, stakeholders, and other staffers on policy, system, and process issues.
• Identifies opportunities to optimize policies, systems, and processes.

Stakeholder/Client Engagement

• Progresses candidates through the interview and closing process, and works with others teams to meet candidate needs (e.g., onboarding, relocation, Visas, critical dependencies).
• Closes candidates by anticipating and responding to objections from the business while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
• Negotiates appropriately with the client/stakeholder to drive solutions that balance their short- and long-term talent needs.
• Identifies current and future talent needs through proactive exploration and analysis of market demands.

Talent Sourcing

• Develops multi-channel strategies to contribute to differentiated talent in emerging roles or highly competitive talent pools to meet long-term business needs (e.g., industry, technical recruiting).
• Uses an understanding of talent markets and complex candidate profiles, as well as growing relationships with new talent pools and communities with future potential, to identify and engage candidates for immediate and future talent needs.
• Creates and presents effective reports to the business that provides key insights and market intelligence that help form effective sourcing strategies.

Workforce Analysis

• Assesses and defines talent/diversity gaps and hiring needs (e.g., skills, volume of hires) of a small mid-scale business group/single discipline/single org.
• Presents this information to hiring managers and/or business leadership team to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Experience managing large-scale campus programmes across multiple geographies.
• Familiarity with data-driven recruiting strategies and tools.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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