INTERNATIONAL TALENT RECRUITER

JOB DESCRIPTION

Many food manufacturing organizations, take their recruitment abroad to help fulfill their labour needs. There are many job seekers internationally that want to opportunity to live & work in Canada, An International Talent Recruiter (Talent Acquisition Specialist) helps to connect amazing foreign talent with real career opportunities here in Canada! You can work as an independent consultant, as part of a firm or directly for a food and beverage manufacturing company. You’ll collaborate with business leaders to understand their current and future talent needs and help develop and execute a talent acquisition strategy that will work for their organizational needs. Employers are seeking multi-faceted individuals who not only have an understanding of the end-to-end recruitment process but also have exceptional communication and people skills. If you enjoy traveling and love working with people and making connections, this is the career path for you!

THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

While this is an office/ computer job, it’s ordinary to work with clients in different time zones, requiring your work hours to be flexible and adaptable as required. This could mean a lot of late nights. early mornings, or even calls at midnight. You’ll need to be tech-savvy and familiar with a variety of communications platforms (or cultural norms) in different countries- such as the use of WeChat in China.

As a Foreign Recruiter there’s a 50/50 split as to where you’ll be employed: you may be employed with a larger food business or with a recruiting agency who specializes in the food sector. Only large organizations can really afford to have a full-time staff member dedicated to high-volume international recruitment, whereas SMEs are more likely to engage agencies to help them source a solid team. Which one of these situations best appeals to your personality? Foreign Recruiters have exceptional people skills, understand business staffing needs and have a thorough understanding of Canada’s immigration system. In your early career, you’ll work as an assistant alongside a seasoned professional to learn the ins and outs of the immigration system and slowly develop your skills and experience. Some people in this role even choose to gain additional certification to become a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC), so they may both recruit and facilitate the immigration process. As a “one-stop-shop” for Foreign Recruitment, naturally, you’ll be paid much higher.

INTERNATIONAL TALENT RECRUITER JOB DUTIES

Here are some of the job duties you may have as an International Talent Recruiter:

Oversee and streamline the full cycle hiring process, right from building a hiring plan to sourcing the qualified candidates, to signing the employment contract.

You’ll need to collaborate with HR Managers and upper management to get a good understanding of how their businesses work and their hiring needs. Often times companies are looking to recruit 30-100+ people, so it’s really important to be in tune with what their needs are.

Intimately understand the daily operations of food and beverage manufacturing facilities: the types of jobs, characteristics of successful candidates, regulatory requirements, experience required, etc.

You’ll need to develop robust strategic hiring plans that identify the best attraction and retention strategies, outline immigration considerations, contain a process flow and timelines, as well as outlining resource allotments.

There’s tons of different strategies for promoting employment opportunities and recruiting abroad, you’ll need to harness the right tools and connections to help your client (the company) get the best bang for their buck!

Build a rich pipeline for finding the right people for the job by establishing and maintaining relationships with embassies, job fairs, post-secondary institutions, government bodies, associations, and other influential networks.

Create innovative job advertisements, master social media, understand where and how to place advertisements in different countries.

Be familiar with the hiring practices and cultural norms in different countries.

Identify key markets and trends

Perform application screening, schedule and conduct in-person and online interviews, and discuss immigration considerations. Check references.

Select candidates, negotiate contract and terms of employment. You may even facilitate secondary interviews with your clients to ensure the selected candidates are a good match for the organization.

Work with candidates and immigration consultants to help facilitate the immigration process or worker visas needed for the company to onboard the new hire.

Depending on your experience, you may even facilitate or know of good training opportunities for the newcomers that will help them be more successful in their new careers and communities!

Provide reports and feedback to hiring organizations on the process, progress and relevant statistics

Support the HR team to continually improve the hiring plan and process to find the top talent, ensuring a smooth transition from hiring, to relocation, to orientation.

BECOMING A INTERNATIONAL TALENT RECRUITER

Qualifications

Minimum of 7-9 years experience in life-cycle recruitment
High-volume recruiting
Must have working knowledge of all pertinent legislation and immigration policies surrounding international hiring.
Fluency in numerous languages is an asset

Qualifications:

- Custom Research Requests