Our core responsibility is to change lives and bring aspiration to create better lives. Are you fast on your feet and results-driven? Do you have a BIG WHY? Then this is the role for you.  
 
If you’re passionate about connecting top talent with the right opportunities, this role is key in attracting, sourcing and onboarding the best candidates to support high-quality serve delivery. 
 
As a Talent Researcher, you`ll leverage your skills in networking, headhunting, and referrals to find top talent for our clients.  
 
Are you`re ready to make an impact in the recruitment space? this is the opportunity for you. Apply by sending your cv to *****@*****.co.za
 

Duties:

• Advertising: Ensure all active roles are advertised using appropriate mediums and social media to attract candidates and build relationships.
• Candidate research: Research and source information on prospective candidates using external and internal databases, deep web searching, and social media. Manage all gathered information appropriately.
• Headhunting: Identify and approach suitable candidates, using databases to match the right person to the client’s vacancy.
• Handling applications: Receive and review applications, manage interviews and tests, and create a shortlist of candidates for the client.
• Leads: Identify job leads, pass them to the relevant consultant, source new candidates from job sites, social media, and other platforms using local market knowledge.
• Work on roles and CVs: Coordinate with consultants to learn job details, qualifications, and experience needed. Source suitable candidates and prepare CVs and correspondence to present to clients.
• Interviews: Organise interviews for candidates, negotiate pay and salary rates, and conduct pre-employment and compliance checks as per internal policy and regulatory requirements.

 
Job Experience & Skills Required:
 
Qualifications

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Psychology, Marketing or similar

Experience

• 1 – 2 Years proven experience in recruitment, talent researcher/sourcer or similar position
• Understanding of sourcing and recruiting techniques
• Ability to work with targets

Skills & Competencies:

• Articulate: Able to handle complex objections while maintaining composure and credibility. Strong questioning skills and ability to build rapport at all levels.
• Confident: Engaging personality with the confidence to pitch opportunities, interview and qualify candidates, and manage post-interview feedback.
• Proactive and Reliable: Ability to source suitable applicants from various angles and provide effective solutions.
• Resilient: Able to handle challenges, take rejections, and bounce back in a tough recruitment environment.
• IT Literate: Strong knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint, with the ability to learn new systems.
• Sales Competent: Competitive, eager to improve, and willing to develop new skills in talent sourcing and recruitment.
• Team-player: Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve shared goals.

 
If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions
 
For more information contact:
Nokuthula Sithole
Office Manager
Salix Recruitment
Talent Researcher position available in Gauteng, Centurion. This job position was posted by Salix Recruitment. The job has been posted as a char8000 ad on 2025-02-24 at 01:02:29 in the It Computer category