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In addition, Chicken Republic was ranked as one of Nigeria’s top 20 brands across all categories (Financial Standards Awards 2009).\n\nWe are recruiting to fill the position below:\n\nJob Title: Recruitment Associate\n\nRequisition ID: 1341\n\nLocation: Lagos\n\nDepartment: Human Resources Department\n\nReports to (Title): Recruitment Manager\n\nJob Purpose\n\n To ensure the Company has a talent pipeline by sourcing and acquiring qualified candidates for both present and future people needs for the Business Divisions\n\nCore Responsibilities and Key Result Areas\n\nRecruitment and Resource Planning:\n\n Provide people for all vacancies that exist in the division\n\n Ensure only credible employees are recruited at any given time\n\n Co-ordinate the requirement and availability of talent for the business division\n\n Provide people for all vacancies that exist in the division and ensure only credible employees are recruited at any given time\n\n Ensure staff onboarding and make available 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business conduct and others, HR Spicy box containing relevant information for store opening, verifying all information supplied by candidates are correct and issuance of offer letter\n\n Make available for all staff all work tools or conditions that contribute to or enhance the delivery of excellent performance from employees\n\n Recruitment reporting such as Recruitment tracker, workforce planning indicating targeted number of recruitment versus actual, time to fill vacancies tracker, family tree update etc\n\nRecruitment and Selection Process:\n\n Ensure candidate talent pipelines through sourcing channels including targeted recruitment campaigns, internet searches, networking groups, social media, database search, referrals and advertising.\n\n Maintain an applicant tracking process that ensures that quality candidates are shortlisted on time and within budget\n\n Conduct thorough pre-screening of candidates as required and provide detailed documentation and recommendations to line managers\n\n Manage new employees’ orientation programs, ensuring that the programs stimulate positive attitude towards the Company goals.\n\n Maintain a reporting system that shows vacancies filled in relations to headcount budgeted by each business division\n\n Ensure talent pipeline both internal and external for each business division in terms of CV pool and ready to hire candidates\n\n Ensure compliance to the labor laws of the government in relations to recruitment process and practice\n\n Ensure employees and expatriates are aware of the laws of the government and that they comply adequately thereafter avoiding company representation of defaults.\n\n Ensure adequate compliance to all company policies, internal control processes and approved processes\n\n Perform any other related task as may be assigned from time to time\n\nKey Performance Indicators\n\n Time to fill vacancy\n\n Number of Qualified Candidates per post\n\n % of position filled over required talent\n\n Acceptance 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