Job Purpose…

The Next Gen Sourcing Specialist is accountable for candidate sourcing and engagement activity across CBRE GWS Business lines, attracting diverse and high calibre talent into our Apprenticeship, Graduate, and Intern talent pools.

Reporting to the Next Gen TA Manager and working with a flexible structure alongside Talent Acquisition (TA), Learning and Development (L&D), Marketing and the wider Next Gen team to deliver recruitment activity and a seamless candidate experience across GWS globally.

Responsible for providing high-level candidate experience and customer satisfaction, supporting CBRE diversity equity and inclusion initiatives, screening applications, shortlisting, assessment centre management, providing candidate feedback, offer negotiation and contract initiation

Key Tasks…

• Work with the Next Gen Manager to understand job requirements to be able to source suitable candidates through direct sourcing, job boards, school and university engagement and referrals/
• Act as the candidate’s liaison throughout the hiring process ensuring a positive experience and high retention rate.
• Working in collaboration with other members of the Talent Acquisition and People team to ensure the delivery of high-quality recruits against requirements from diverse pools of candidates
• Promotes CBRE employer brand initiatives to attract diverse talent, actively participating across the TA team ensuring best practice is shared and implemented
• Candidate Management- managing the candidate experience from advertising roles through to onboarding
• Act as the point of contact for internal and external talent providing customer, candidate, and stakeholder satisfaction
• Lead on assessment centres, act as a point of contact for internal stakeholders to advise on recruitment strategy
• Update Avature ATS and other reporting systems to enable weekly and monthly TA activity reports
• Support charity partners, DE&I Partnerships, and third-party suppliers to enhance the Next Gen recruitment process and support the DE&I targets.
• Support Next Gen recruitment activity across EMEA, liaising with international TA partners and People leads to identify hiring needs, eligibility criteria and target schools.
• Engage with target schools, Universities, and charities to run in house workshops, CV skills sessions, presentations etc to promote CBRE GWS and attract talent into the Next Gen Schemes
• Manage CBRE GWS Next Gen social media presence (LinkedIn,  Facebook, Job boards and Glassdoor)
• Support L&D with hosting induction programmes for intern, apprentices, and graduates into the business

Education…

·       Higher Education Qualifications

Skills…

·       Able to work in a matrix organisation, prioritising, and effectively communicating with key stakeholders

·       Networking and relationship management

·       Customer focused  

·       Excellent customer service

·       Stakeholder and relationship management

Knowledge…

·       Experienced in the use of resourcing technologies and social networking to build candidate/talent pools

·       A passion for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in all approaches

·       Recruitment technology - ATS expertise, varied search and sourcing methods, LinkedIn, talent pooling and market mapping

Aptitude…

·       A passion for early careers recruitment and service delivery

·       Relationship management

·       Self-motivated

·       Thrives on working in a fast moving, creative, flexible environment

·       Strong interpersonal and communication skills

·       Integrity

·       Motivated to deliver

·       Organised with attention to detail

·       Results focused