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Our recruiting team thrives in driving innovation in AI, engineering, and programme delivery, while cultivating talent through proactive sourcing and continuous learning. We have an opening for a Specialist Recruiter role supporting Engineering hiring for EMEA EIP.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nStakeholder/ Client Engagement\nUses data to educate and influence hiring managers on talent acquisition strategy and linking this data to filling the roles. Interprets client’s business and the industry landscape and/or university talent pools to influence the client to adopt optimal staffing solutions. \nUnderstands factors relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget) and uses this knowledge to strategize, implement, and execute end-to-end hiring plan aligned to the needs of the business group. \nConsults a business area on talent needs and opportunities and pushes for the acceptance of differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional, unconsumed or runner-up candidates from previous searches) that may not be typically considered. \nOperational Compliance & Excellence\nMaintains current documentation/information on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation). Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights. \nUses subject matter expertise on applying internal and external staffing policies, standards, and/or regulations throughout the entire staffing lifecycle to educate clients, stakeholders, and other staffers on policy, system, and process issues. Identifies opportunities to optimize policies, systems, and processes. \nMarket Analysis and Channel Insights\nSynthesizes, analyzes, and interprets external market data, and provides market and channel insights to the business to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition initiatives. Develops sourcing strategy using market and channel insights. \nTalent Sourcing\nDevelops multi-channel strategies to contribute to differentiated talent in emerging roles or highly competitive talent pools to meet long-term business needs (e.g., industry, technical recruiting). \nUses an understanding of talent markets and complex candidate profiles, as well as growing relationships with new talent pools and communities with future potential, to identify and engage candidates for immediate and future talent needs. Creates and presents effective reports to the business that provides key insights and market intelligence that help form effective sourcing strategies. \nCandidate Assessment & Screening\nIdentifies, gathers, and assesses information (e.g., relocation, immigration, compensation) to qualify talent pool. Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates. \nLeverages tools and assessment frameworks from Operations teams and Center of Excellence to assess candidates. May contribute to the creation of assessment materials by identifying relevant competencies and job criteria.\nCandidate Attraction\nCoaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors. Delivers differentiated pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal (e.g., compensation, benefits, perks, career development). \nShares best practices on sourcing, recruiting, and/or closing techniques and stories with their own team. Tracks candidate activity using systems and tools.\nElicits interest in passive, active, and potential candidates by telling the business story, and contributes to the development of new stories. Generates awareness through community outreach events and strategic networking related to future hiring needs.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree AND well experiencedin talent acquisition (e.g recruiting, sourcing, campus hiring).OR equivalent experience.\n\nStrong critical thinking, judgment capability and communications skills, with the ability to engage and consult in strategic hiring discussions.\nProficient with a data-driven approach to recruiting, using talent insights, market intelligence, hiring data and competitor analysis to drive impactful hiring outcomes.\nPreferred Qualifications\nFull-cycle experience in engineering or technical recruitment, with deep understanding on different technology stacks. \nExperience in university recruiting or volume hiring for early-in-career talents. \nStrong planning, university relations, program and event management skills is a plus. \nTalent Acquisition IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 60,300.00 - € 102,600.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.\nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html\nTalent Acquisition IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Romania is lei 199,400.00 - lei 347,800.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. \nFind additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/romania-corporate-pay.html\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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