Talent Acquisition Specialist

Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, CT, is seeking a temporary Talent Acquisition Specialist to manage day-to-day recruiting activities onsite. The role focuses on sourcing and presenting qualified candidates aligned with position profiles, maintaining a positive candidate experience, handling recruitment administration, and representing the organization at marketing and recruitment fairs to attract top talent.

Responsibilities

• Handle day-to-day recruiting processes
• Source and present candidates aligned to the position profile
• Manage the candidate experience
• Process all recruitment-related administration within agreed timescales
• Provide excellent customer service
• Attend marketing and recruitment fairs
• Provide recommendations to recruit top talent
• Administrative tasks, such as collecting references
• Call center duties
• Maintaining file records
• Other assigned tasks
• Use creative sourcing and recognized best practices to develop and maintain a robust pipeline of candidates for current and anticipated openings
• Recruit via telephone, internet, e-mailings, social media and other effective avenues
• Screen and pre-qualify resumes, apply applicable policy and union criteria, select appropriate applicants to move forward in the interview process
• Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, and interactions in the applicant tracking system
• Serve as initial point of contact for HRConnection inquiries regarding ATS, recruitment process, job requirements, third-party vendors, etc.
• Act as a liaison between the hiring manager and candidates during the interview and offer process
• Provide initial salary recommendations for candidates
• Collect references on candidates
• Track applicant and employee certification and licensure for compliance and follow-up with Business Partners
• Attend career fairs and networking events
• Maintain good relationships with team, candidates, employees and clients
• Maintain relationships and contracts with third-party agencies/vendors
• Provide general administrative support to the Human Resources team, including HRConnection phone lines and front desk coverage
• Review Personnel Action Records to ensure policies and procedures are followed
• Assist in providing vacancy and recruitment reports for tracking purposes

Requirements

• Associates Degree in related field (required)
• PHR certification preferred

Technologies

• Microsoft Office
• HRConnection