Sr. Recruiter – Workforce Planning

The Western Business Unit’s Recruiting team of CGI’s Operational Shared Services division located in Edmonton, Alberta is responsible for contributing to the successful delivery of some of the most compelling projects in our industry by managing the acquisition of new Members and delivering comprehensive project-staffing solutions across the Edmonton Area.

We have a demanding but rewarding career opportunity for a Sr. Recruiter, Workforce Planning to assist with overall staffing objectives and activities for various consulting practices and business verticals within CGI.

Reporting to the Director, Workforce Planning for Operational Shared Services, and working on a growing team of recruiters, you will be primarily responsible for managing and balancing project-based staffing requirements with hiring needs of our consulting practices. You will attend regular status meetings and participate in local/national recruitment calls to assess the needs/availability in other business units. Your role will act as single point of contact for discussions relating to current and future assignments, and proactively identify and promote Members who are coming available to opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally (as appropriate).

The primary functions of this role consist of:

• Manage key relationships within supporting business to gain full appreciation for nature of work/projects/priorities
• Seek to understand full scope of staffing requirements for supporting business
• Gain full working knowledge of ATS/RMS – utilize ATS/RMS to manage full cycle recruitment and staffing objectives
• Meet regularly with supporting businesses to gain understand of overall needs, act as an advisor on prospective candidates and to influence the businesses on hiring process and decision making
• Balance activities to ensure positive candidate and hiring manager experiences
• Prepare reports/interpret recruiting data as required and present back to the business on current activity, pipeline development and where required, opportunities for improvement in recruitment process
• Utilize advanced sourcing techniques such as Boolean-equation, latent semantic, data-base/ATS/Job board and professional networking site mining
• Actively engage in either technical, behavioural or situational interviewing assessments
• Prepare qualified slate of prospective candidates to businesses along with supporting recommendations
• Work with Recruitment partners to ensure offers are processed rapidly and with full legislative and quality standards.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• 4-7 years experience with a successful track record as a full-cycle recruiter in a high-volume, complex and rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated achievement in recruiting for hard-to-find resources including but not limited to Management Consulting, Project Management life cycle and software development life cycle within a variety of industry verticals such as Banking and Investments/Wealth Management, Public Sector/Utilities, Management Consulting, Telecommunications
• Well defined and proven sourcing methods, high degree of familiarity/proficiency with recruitment tools such as LinkedIn, Jobs2Web, Tweetmyjobs, multiple search engine and meta-search engines, job aggregators/propagators etc
• Demonstrated competency in working with competing priorities
• Well established relationship management skills – experience in working with and guiding/providing consultative advise to hiring teams within supporting businesses
• Experience within a consulting environment, familiarity with the concepts of billable resource requirements, utilization, and bench hiring.
• Ability to navigate complex, matrix-based organizational hierarchies
• Strong practical experience with several ATS/RMS platforms, particularly Njoyn ATS.
• Strong team-oriented working style
• Track record of bringing new recruiting operating concepts to fruition, active participant in the enhancement of tools, techniques, process and procedures

If you eat/sleep/breath recruitment, have well developed organizational skills and are looking to join a growing recruitment organization in the Workforce Planning team of CGI’s Operational Shared Services division, then we would be very interested in speaking with you.

We offer the opportunity to work with Canada’s largest Information Technology Outsourcing and Management Consulting company with a true global presence in a fast-paced and energetic atmosphere where your personal and professional growth is accelerated by your desire and sense of commitment.

The anticipated start date for this position is immediate, so please refresh your resume, and apply online to CGI Careers to tell us about yourself.

Regrettably, we are unable to interview all applicants. We will contact the best responses for an interview, so please make sure you tell us about yourself and how you would like to contribute to our team.

At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to professionals located in 100+ offices worldwide. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients win and grow. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients - and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at www.cgi.com.

This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

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Skills:
Human Resources
IT & Communications
Recruiting/Staffing


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