Digital Talent Acquisition Specialist

Are you a star recruiter, a strong communicator and an outstanding stakeholder manager who is passionate about recruitment? Then you may be our new Digital Talent Acquisition Specialist for PA Consulting. 

• Flexible working - We are currently operating a discretionary hybrid working model which is designed to help you plan your work and your life.
• We require our people to come into the office at least two days a week
• This role will be based from either our offices in London (Victoria), Cambridge or Belfast.
• Application deadline: ASAP

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Take your career to the next level in a role that is critical in enabling the growth of the business. You will be responsible for managing the success of our Digital recruitment capability streams. You will have the resilience to handle a fast-paced environment where you will be at the coal-face of sourcing and qualifying talent who will go on to deliver high-impact projects.

This will encompass:

• Sourcing pipelines of candidates
• Qualifying and selecting candidates
• Offer management and negotiation
• Managing candidate experience
• Liaising with senior stakeholders

You will have a range of tools at your fingertips to support, including LinkedIn Recruiter and Hackajob.

Activities will include:

• Designing innovative sourcing strategies to targeting high quality candidates
• Using search techniques on platforms such as Linked In
• Writing adverts and communications that highlight key qualifiers for each role as well as the benefits of working at PA
• Carefully qualifying candidates against specific role requirements and company culture
• Managing your candidates’ expectations, ensuring they are kept engaged and informed throughout their experience.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders to engage and influence consistent and effective recruitment processes.
• Coordinate closely with recruiting team members to innovate our research strategy for talent pooling, market mapping and competitor analysis
• Actively engage in diversity and inclusion hiring strategies
• Be data driven in your methods, with a firm understanding of how your recruitment metrics can be used to improve performance.
• Deliver market insight and intelligence by keeping up with industry trends and gaining credibility with stakeholders
• Be a champion of candidate experience, so that even unsuccessful candidates leave the process with a positive image of PA Consulting.

About you

We are looking for someone who is experienced in recruitment methods, tools and processes of as well as possessing strong communication and influencing skills. You will have:

• Minimum of 2 years direct recruitment experience within Digital / Technology either from a search firm or in-house
• Proven experience in hiring talent within one or more of the following areas: Software Engineering, DevOps, Data, Architecture, Cyber Security and Design.
• Significant experience and excellence in direct sourcing and attracting passive talent using tools such as Linked In Recruiter
• A diligent and motivated attitude. You will be target driven and a real self-starter who is not afraid to use their initiative
• Excellent communication skills and confidence in building positive relationships with diverse and challenging stakeholders
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and challenge candidates
• High energy and personal resilience with the ability to manage competing demands in a complex, matrixed environment.  You should have the ability to lead yourself through ambiguity and change, often in a fast-paced atmosphere 
• Great partnering and teaming skills – ability to support others in a collegiate working environment and build internal networks to solve problems.

We know the skill-gap and ‘need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.