Talent Acquisition Specialist Knoxville, TN

The Talent Acquisition Partner provides consultative guidance and support for high-volume recruiting business operations. The role includes screening, interviewing, collecting pre-employment requirements, scheduling face-to-face interviews with hiring managers, and facilitating the new hire process.

In addition, they will communicate with hiring managers and key stakeholders updates relates to Talent Acquisition activity. The Talent Acquisition Partner will help drive the Talent Acquisition team to meet business needs and deliver the best talent to contribute to the continuous growth of the organization.

• Responsible for fulfilling staffing plans for high volume business operations across multiple requisitions through building strong business partnerships with department leaders.
• Partners and coaches hiring managers on best practices with recruiting interviewing and retention including providing one-on-one support with reviewing resumes, interviewing questions/techniques.
• Attends or assists in participating in weekly staffing meetings.
• Educates hiring managers on new hire assessment interpretations.
• Assists with tracking recruiting reporting metrics such as staffing reports and dashboards.
• Assists with offer letter preparation.
• Conducts event planning for career nights, in-house job fairs, and other onsite hiring activities.
• Assists with the development and refinement of job descriptions.
• Opens job requisitions in Applicant Tracking System (ATS), post internal announcements.
• Posts positions to the appropriate job boards.
• Coordinates registrations, interview space, logistics and communications for on and off-site events.
• Follows-up with candidates via email and phone to schedule and confirm interview appointments, request application and assessment completion, notification of status, etc.
• Supports the Talent Acquisition team with various aspects of full-cycle recruitment (sourcing, screening, application/assessment collection, scheduling face-to-face interviews with hiring manager, initiating offers).
• Ensures that interview notes are collected and prepared for all candidates.
• Assists with the conducting/overseeing the processing of new hire background checks and drug screens as a backup to the Talent Acquisition Coordinator.
• Tracks, oversees and promotes the employee referral program.
• Assists with establish relationships with relevant colleges, universities and trade schools in support of staffing needs.
• Provides support to hiring managers on recruitment best practices.
• Recommends the placement of and initiates offers for sales and management candidates in the effort to achieve staffing objectives.

Follows the established recruitment process, develops recruitment plans for their designated business partners, and employs traditional sourcing strategies and resources as well as makes recommendations for innovative ways in which to attract and source top talent.