GVA Partners recruits a Senior Recruiter April, 2013

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy formulation and implementation expertise and business operation improvement skills.
GVA Partners is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Position: Senior Recruiter
Location: Lagos
Description

• The Senior Recruiter will proactively identify and recruit top talent while managing the end-to-end recruiting process for their client groups' hiring needs.
• You will use your expertise to identify, evaluate, and manage proactive recruitment sourcing plans.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years of corporate recruiting experience mandatory.
• 2-3 years of experience in as a third-party recruiting agency strongly preferred.
• Understanding the functional breakdown of an organization at the executive level.
• The ability to identify qualified candidates for various projects, contacting them through cold calling and capturing their
  interest.
• The ability to speak intelligently at some level of detail about our clients across different industries, and to be able to articulate why we are a premier search firm.
• Strong project management skills, including planning for and tracking recruiting metrics.
• Proven knowledge and expertise in all sourcing methods including using recruiting research, cold calling, warm calling and internet recruiting.
• Business development skills and client relationships would be ideal but are not required.
• A proven track record of successfully sourcing hard-to-find candidates.
• Experience using staffing systems and tools including relational database applicant tracking systems, the internet, job
  boards and imagination.
• Strong verbal communication skills, including interviewing, selling, influencing, negotiating and collaborating.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Managing Director and the project team to plan and implement effective recruiting strategies for Technology or Consumer research positions.
• Identify and the best mix of resources to source top talent - using our research function, job boards, web searches, referrals and industry-specific sources.
• Develop position-specific screening questionnaires.
• Recruit, assess, and hire top talent.
• Identify, screen and present top talent to clients.
• Work with research team as assignments change/evolve.
• Insure job profiles and position requirements are aligned with business objectives.
• Understand the client company, the market they are in, the products they produce, the strategic direction of the company, and the specifics surrounding the role we are working to fill.
• Serve as an ambassador of our firm when reaching out to candidates; cold calling candidates for positions and acting professionally in representing the firm.
• Manage candidates throughout the interview process.

Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal, consulting, diplomacy, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to work independently on projects, as team lead, and as a member of a team.
• High level of initiative, strong drive to succeed.
• Excellent organization skills and oral/written communication skills a must.
• Library knowledge/experience a plus but not mandatory.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their applications and CV's to: contact@gvapartners.com and recruitment@gvapartners.com

Note:
Please, state the position you are applying for in the subject field of the mail.

Application Deadline 17th May, 2013