Responsibilities

As a member of our team, you will own engaging passive candidates across volume and niche hiring. This role is more than simple sourcing, you should be able to talk about the Microsoft strategy and articulate career opportunities that engage passive talent. You must thrive in the hunt and be focused on networking closely within the industry to identify the right talent and companies to target. You’ll cover the basics of talent sourcing, but more importantly, leverage your business knowledge to develop meaningful sourcing strategies which promote direct methods to identify, evaluate, and pipeline exceptional candidates for Microsoft. 

This is how you will spend most of your time: 

  

• Be the driver of external hiring activity and a subject expert for sourcing strategies within your target skillsets. 
• Directly partner with business leaders and internal recruiters in defining and maintaining core and pivotal pipelines. 
• Craft custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement  
• Work with teams to engage the business early in the recruiting cycle, always promote diverse hires and candidates directly from our key competitors 
• You will own candidate relationships all the way to the point of an in-person interview and will be tightly integrated into the feedback process during the interview process 
• Effectively screen and assess talent ensuring we bring forward the best candidates including cultural & competency fit 
• Research and gather market intelligence. Map our competitors, deliver data driven insight and help our hiring managers understand the external market and shape requirements. 

Qualifications

This is what we’re looking for in you: 

  

• A background in Technical Recruitment, ideally with expereince of hiring Software Engineers at various levels
• Knowledge and experience hiring across a territory, ideally EMEA locations 
• A passionate about sourcer who can demonstrate innovation in sourcing, exceptional practice & people who are curious and creative in their approach. 
• Advanced research/sourcing skills. Including use of Boolean, social media and alternative search techniques 
• Can influence passive candidates and impact hiring manager’s decisions 
• Ability to have meaningful conversations with passive talent and persuasive enough to spark interest 
• Naturally driven to deliver results, and effectively manage and prioritise multiple projects and candidates 
• Ability to define requirements, seek, clarity and advise/consult with the ability to push back when required 
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to network within the industry to identify top performers 
• Result oriented, focused on outcomes & KPI achievement 
• Broad recruiting background, English language required. Other European languages a bonus. 

  

Why us? 

  

Microsoft enables you to do more and achieve more through technology. Our talented Sourcers enable Microsoft to do more and achieve more through hunting & hiring the best. Successful Recruiters/Sourcers in this role come from a variety of backgrounds including pure researchers from search and selection, industry recruiters and classic talent sourcing / resourcing backgrounds. This role is focused on the external market and the pursuit of the best talent, if this sounds like you and you are up for an incredible challenge, please apply today.  

We’re a team in growth, we’re on a mission and we’re having fun along the way. If sourcing is your thing and you are up for a challenge, please let us know! 

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. 

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