Overview

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

To achieve Microsoft’s mission, our Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) Team engages and hires the people who empower the planet. We endeavor to play a vital role in delivering on the promise of Microsoft’s culture and ultimately, make a difference in the world, through how and who we recruit. We believe that when recruiting experiences reflect the value and diversity of talented people, everyone can achieve more.

Our GTA Strategic Talent Sources (TS) focus on identifying, mapping, approaching, attracting and assessing talent. They work closely with the recruiters and TS consultants to research the markets and build relationships with external talent to achieve pivotal, niche, diversity and senior hiring needs. They proactively map organizations and markets to identify the best talents, build innovative and market leading candidate sourcing solutions to attract them to Microsoft. They also provide quality, customized and diverse long-lists and shortlists for open roles and pipelines / projects and drive exceptional candidate experience from initial contact to offer ensuring robust communication at each stage.

Responsibilities

• Leverages long-term relationships with talent pools and communities across the industry. Develops a comprehensive approach that integrates multiple concepts (e.g., community building, business intelligence) to create an innovative sourcing strategy for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries.
• Shares candidates across teams, and is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to generate and meet targets for differentiated talent for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries.
• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise a division, set of countries, or subsidiary on the implications of talent gaps. Leads the development of staffing processes and strategies.
• Consults a division, region, or subsidiary on critical talent needs and opportunities. Presents and frames information in a way that speaks to the business needs and influences leaders to embrace differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional) that may not be typically considered.
• Uses deep knowledge of competitor opportunities to differentiate Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards and leverage a consistent, compelling message that conveys the most significant motivators to prospective candidates.
• Leads the optimization of staffing policies, systems, and processes throughout their organization, and guides stakeholders on the impact of these changes.
• Maintains current documentation on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs [OFCCP], General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]). Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.
• Performs deep analysis of external market data leveraging industry/ market expertise, and provides market and channel insights to the business to recommend and drive hiring plans and talent acquisition initiatives. Develops sourcing strategy using market and channel insights.