GSS - Tech Sourcing Recruiter , WWAS TA C Sourcing

About Amazon

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history by joining the North American Operations recruiting team at Amazon.

Role Overview
We need an exceptionally talented Sourcer Recruiter to help us find the best talent in the US market to support our growth. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers. The Recruiter will work with a team of recruiting professionals focusing on finding the best distribution and operations professionals across the country, fostering a collaborative team environment and a strong service-oriented culture that ensures delivery of efficient, effective, quality-driven service to internal customers.

Key Requirements
The candidate must be able to successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all customer SLAs. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done. The best candidates will have a reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation in a high volume environment and possess strong verbal and written communication skills. They will need to demonstrate an ability to prioritize their time, demonstrate pushback and a sense of urgency, and understand the value of providing amazing customer service.

Core Responsibilities
Recruit passive candidates with the mentality to "profile people and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and understand their motivation" rather than sell a role
Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management
Conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios
Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company
Implement new processes and fine-tune standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer
Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process

Sourcing and Candidate Engagement
Proactively source passive candidates using Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, X-ray search/Open web and other sourcing channels for remote sites
Conduct candidate outreach and engagement to build interest and assess right fit
Filter the right candidates during recruiter phone screen

Screening and Evaluation
Conduct on-phone and virtual candidate screening process to assess qualification and skill alignment
Use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, X-ray search/Open web, GitHub and other sourcing tools

Must-Have Skills
Boolean and Advanced Search
Create targeted Boolean strings to identify candidates with niche technical skills across LinkedIn, X-ray search/Open web, GitHub, trade forums and specialized job boards

Candidate Engagement for Passive Talent
Skilled at requirement gathering, sourcing and screening candidates in specialized technical fields
Articulate role-based value proposition to the candidate
Build strategies and brainstorm to create efficient and creative sourcing solutions for stakeholders

Good to Have:
Market Intelligence: Understand the talent market to source the right talent from targeted organizations

Location & Timing:
Locations: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, and Gurgaon (Remote role)

Timing: 6:00 PM - 3:00 AM IST

A day in the life
1. Proven ability and sharp on the feet to proactively source passive candidates using Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, X-ray search/ Open web and other sourcing channels for remote sites.
2. Experience in conducting candidate outreach and engagement to build interest and assess right fit, with ability to filter the right candidates during recruiter phone screen.

About the team
The role holder will be a part of Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) team, which is a central sourcing team for WW Amazon Talent Acquisition (ATA) team. We scout bar raising talent spanning across Americas (NA, LATAM), Europe, AMET and India, to enable and scale cost-efficient sourcing solutions in Tech, Non-Tech and High volume space.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or above
- Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
- Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market
- 2+ years of passive candidate generation experience
- Experience executing recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management
- Boolean and Advanced Search

Preferred Qualifications

- 1+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience

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