Job: Campus Recruiter

Location: Greater Chicago Area

Description

ThoughtWorks’ aim is quite simple; recruit and retain seriously talented people who want to add business value on high technology projects. We are expanding our Junior Consulting program to find even more exceptionally talented Entry Level Developers. To ensure we get this right, we are looking for a passionate recruiter who will help us to understand the college recruiting, track-down fresh talent, and help us to continue to hire exceptional people.

Unlike many of our competitors, we are committed to hiring a diverse range of entry level developers and visiting over 20 universities to do this. In order to do this, we continue to improve our hiring and evolve our brand, finding new sources for hires, even headhunting people when we need to. This is your chance to bring all of your innovative ideas to the table.

As a ThoughtWorks Talent Scout you will be:

• Selling ThoughtWorks to potential ThoughtWorkers; either through a telephone interview or a face to face meeting, you are responsible for getting people excited about ThoughtWorks
• Creating amazing experiences. You will make sure that potential ThoughtWorkers are meeting the right interviewers and that we are ensuring that they are looked after at every stage of the process. You ensure that candidates are treated as individuals
• Articulating the risks and benefits of a hire. From the first time you speak with a potential ThoughtWorker, you are assessing their strengths and weaknesses so that we can make lower risk hiring decisions.
• Be an advocate of social networking within our recruiting function and helping ThoughtWorks to capitalize on these tools
• Constantly looking for creative sourcing strategies
• Building relationship with Universities to find top-talent graduates
• Being an ambassador for ThoughtWorks. Very often you’ll be the first person that someone talks to from us, so you need to be great at understanding their motivations and matching their motivations with the benefits of working here
• Representing ThoughtWorks at events and building community. While this role will often be office based, you will be comfortable with attending conferences, career fairs, meetups, and building a pop-up marketing stand. Don’t forget you also have to create executing a strategy to follow up with them
• Making sure that we are creating an inclusive sourcing strategy that takes extraordinary steps to approach people from diverse backgrounds

Desired Skills & Experience

You’ll bring the following:

• Experience in a fast-paced recruiting environment, experience hiring at universities a big plus.
• Beyond LinkedIn a strong understanding of Web 2.0/social networking and its impact on recruiting
• Strong inner geek - someone who is actually interested in technology
• Track record of being a recruitment advisor to the business, evidenced by the ability to take recruitment requirements, turn them into job descriptions and hiring people
• Experience of both high volume, constant recruitment and delivering a shortlist of candidates within set deadlines
• A passion for learning quickly
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• A desire to collaborate with a team to produce a world class end result
• “Gut instincts” about culture and technical fit
• High integrity and respect for candidates and colleagues alike
• Strong organisational skills including both event and calendar management

We like to do things differently here, so we’re seeking a creative approach to recruiting. If you are interested in taking on an opportunity that offers variety and challenge every day, we’d love to meet you.

Company Description

ThoughtWorks is synonymous with innovation. We’re dedicated to the art of perfecting software delivery by keeping it lightweight, fast-moving and open-source.  Our clients are people and organizations with ambitious missions – whether they’re in the commercial, social, or government sectors. They trust us to deliver the disruptive thinking and technology that empowers them to succeed.

By joining ThoughtWorks, you join a diverse community of bright individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation and delivery, while advocating for positive social change.  In our 20th year, over 2300 ThoughtWorkers are currently serving clients from offices across 11 countries.

Additional Information

Posted:

September 5, 2013

Type:

Full-time

Experience:

Associate

Functions:

Human Resources, Information Technology 

Industries:

Information Technology and Services, Computer Software, Human Resources 

Job ID:

6394270

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