Talent Acquisition Specialist
At AIHR we're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team.
Full-time · Rotterdam/Amsterdam
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Full-time · Rotterdam/Amsterdam
Are you passionate about finding great people and matching them to their next dream job? Do you love helping hiring managers grow their teams in a fast-growing international company? Do you get excited by discovering what “looking for a new challenge” really means for each and every candidate you speak with? Our company is growing, and we need your help to find the people who will make it happen. That’s why we’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist! Join us and work on making some great people very happy by matching them to their dream jobs.
Founded in 2016 with the mission to future-proof HR, the Academy to Innovate HR (AIHR) has become the world’s market leader in online training for human resources professionals. We have a global customer base spread across 140+ countries, amongst which companies like Unilever, Reckitt, Goldman Sachs, Philips, Deloitte, Nike, Heineken, and UBS. It is our goal to continuously educate 100,000 HR Professionals.
We are an international team of 80+ people, driven by excellence, innovation, and a hunger to grow in everything we do. As such, we strive to provide the world’s best courses and excellent support to our customers while continuously optimizing every aspect of our work. With over 35 nationalities, our team is international, yet we all share a few traits: we're friendly, enthusiastic, and great team players.
Being a fast-growing company, working at AIHR means taking on a lot of responsibility while getting countless opportunities to develop yourself in new areas and craft your role.
As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will join our People Team, and, together with Moritz (Junior Recruiter), Bora (Talent Acquisition Specialist), and Duska (Team Lead Talent Acquisition), you play a key role in making AIHR's ambitious growth plans possible. Currently, we recruit for 8 different teams across the business. In the coming months, we expect the most significant growth in our commercial teams - Marketing and Sales.
You will have the opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of the recruitment cycle for a variety of different roles. This includes helping the hiring manager open the role, sourcing candidates (locally and internationally), and preparing an offer they will be thrilled to accept. All the while, you’re making sure that candidates have a fantastic experience and walk away as raving fans of AIHR, even if the role is not the one for them right now.
You will work closely with both experienced and first-time hiring managers. Your role is to ensure a smooth and fair recruitment process that results in exceptional hires who will thrive in our organization. To achieve this, you will collaborate closely with your colleagues in the People team. As we grow, we will constantly optimize our processes to improve how we hire new people and practice what we preach as the Academy to Innovate HR. This is where your experience and creative ideas to find more innovative ways of working will be crucial.
You start your Monday by settling in with a cup of your favorite morning beverage. You have a bird's-eye view from the 15th floor of our office. You check your email for new messages and prepare the day around the calls and virtual meetings your candidates have booked. Today will be an exciting one as you will talk to some very promising candidates for the Performance Marketeer role. It is a crucial vacancy for our marketing department, which will drive our B2C growth.
The first meeting of the week is a team standup. Here, you’ll update your colleagues about your key focus, goals for the week, and the challenges you are facing. You suggested improving the number of female applications we receive on our career page by implementing a diversity statement you heard about in a hiring podcast last week.
Time to open your ATS, Homerun, to review new applicants and go through your emails and tasks for the day. You check in with active candidates you need to schedule interviews for and follow up with others whose feedback hasn’t come through yet.
Before you know it, it’s time for lunch and a moment to enjoy freshly prepared food by our office chef, Rik. Today, the menu is Indonesian-inspired. After discussing your weekend activities with your colleagues, you return to the People team office.
Tuesday and Wednesday you work from home to focus on some administrative tasks, phone screenings, and getting feedback from hiring managers on their interviews. Unfortunately, one of the candidates was not the right fit for the role, and you need to reject them. You know the candidate will be disappointed, but at the same time, they are a perfect fit in terms of organizational values, so you want to make sure you leave the door open for the next roles on the team. You invite them to check in a couple of months from now to see if there are better opportunities.
Thursday you're back in the office to open up a new role for an Email Marketeer. You meet with Luca, Head of Growth Marketing, to discuss the requirements, write a d@mn good job vacancy, and post the role online. The first applications come in within hours of posting the job. You decide to grab a coffee with one of the new starters while you’re in the office and check how things are going for them.
On Friday, you meet with the Talent Acquisition team to discuss your significant progress this week and review the hiring plan for the rest of the year. You update your planning on the team's Miro board and make a to-do list for next week. After a productive and busy week, you’re happy to close your laptop and join your team for some drinks. Although we all work hard to make the company grow, we like to relax and enjoy our joint success.
You are exceptionally structured and proactive in your approach to Recruitment. You dive deeper to understand what your hiring manager really needs and challenge them on the not-so-necessary stuff. You have excellent communication skills, not just towards your hiring managers and colleagues but also towards candidates. You also bring a lot of learnings from your Recruitment experience to the company and like finding ways to work smarter. Furthermore you:
Have at least 5 years of experience in recruitment (this may include innovative sourcing and headhunting). It is a plus if you have experience hiring for commercial roles;
Have strong communication skills (fluent English is a must), and you’re good at convincing people, even if you are not an expert in the particular domain;
Dig deeper by asking the right questions and aiming to understand your stakeholders and candidates;
Have been successful in filling pipelines for multiple challenging roles simultaneously;
Are passionate about delivering the best candidate experience and finding the best talent. As we are the Academy to Innovate HR, candidates will expect us to practice what we preach, so we care deeply about the candidate experience;
Are open-minded, solution-focused, and thrive in a fast-changing environment.
A key role in shaping the education of tens of thousands of Human Resource professionals from all over the world through our courses
The opportunity to shape your day-to-day work;
Regular growth talks and support to reach your career goals;
Flexible working hours & working from home arrangements after your onboarding
A high degree of autonomy in a vibrant, result-driven, inclusive, and international team;
A key role in a fast-growing scale-up company;
A beautiful office right across Rotterdam Central Station (Milleniumtower) and a brand new office in Amsterdam;
26 paid holidays per year + 1 extra day for every year you work here + you can exchange any 2 public holiday days for 2 other days of your choice;
Pension plan;
5 Mental health days per year;
Access to OpenUp mental health platform;
Personal development budget, training, and we pay for the books you read!
All public transport expenses covered (NS Business Card);
MacBook + all other equipment you need to do your work;
Daily lunch prepared by a chef, weekly drinks, and fun team activities;
Free access to the office gym.
Get a taste of AIHR experience and check out our AIHR Benefits Guide!
Are you excited to become our Talent Acquisition Specialist? Then we'd love to hear from you! We are looking to hire for this role as soon as we find an eligible candidate.
P.S. Research shows that while men apply to jobs at an average of 60% of the criteria, women tend only to apply when they meet 100%. So, if you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to consider you and see if you could be a great fit.