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Your Work Shapes the World

Whether groundbreaking products, best-in-class solutions, or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries worldwide, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you join a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power our world – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce, Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us in Sourcing the best candidates for the best roles!

The Talent Acquisition Sourcer responsibilities will include all of the following:

Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage passive and tactical candidate pipelines, maintaining a positive candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Managing 8-15 requisitions consistently and seeking out best practices and process improvements.
• Engaging with hiring managers and the Construction Industries leadership team to understand the talent needs, challenges, and priorities to build sourcing and go-to-market strategies for identifying and attracting top talent. Have an in-depth understanding of the business areas and the skills in demand.
• Collaborating with other Talent Acquisition professionals to share knowledge, sourcing best practices, and upskill on Technical Sourcing methodologies.
• Continually providing feedback to the leaders on activity, outreach, challenges, and overall insights on the external market conditions. Ability to translate challenges into creative solutions to overcome roadblocks.
• Utilizing creative sourcing strategies using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Workday, Beamery, and other channels to generate new leads and nurture existing leads. Demonstrated Advanced technical and diversity sourcing methodologies.
• Ensuring the positive candidate experience is at the forefront of all recruitment activity and building brand advocacy for Construction Industries

SKILLS

Recruitment Channel Management : Knowledge of the benefit, selection, implementation, and operation of various recruitment channels (e.g., computer databases, Internet recruiting resources, cold calls, media, recruiting firms, and employee referrals); ability to use appropriate channels to achieve objectives of organizational talent strategy.

• Uses different recruitment channels to attract appropriate candidates for job vacancies.
• Participates in the process of recruitment channel optimization within the organization.
• Follows guidelines and standards in the process of recruitment channel selection.
• Analyzes the effectiveness of different recruitment channels (e.g., corporate websites, recruiting firms, Internet job sites) in job vacancy recruiting.

Candidate Screening: Knowledge of techniques, methods, and processes of candidate screening; ability to preselect suitable candidates for first and further interviews within the organization.

• Evaluates best practices of candidate screening within the industry to learn their rationale and practices.
• Oversees the candidate information system in accordance with daily operational needs.
• Coaches others on candidate screening techniques and methods.
• Screens candidates for senior positions within the organization.

Candidate Sourcing: Knowledge of techniques, methods, and channels of candidate sourcing; ability to attract and qualify candidates for immediate job vacancies or as potential long-term job candidates.

• Investigates the organization's short- and long-term HR needs.
• Evaluates industry best practices for candidate sourcing to learn their rationale, processes, and policies.
• Develops a multi-channel candidate sourcing strategy within the organization.
• Advises on how to solve various problems between business and sourcing functions; provides expertise for managers of employer departments.
• Recommends improvements to increase the efficiency of candidate sourcing tools and software.

Staffing and Recruiting: Knowledge of standards, processes, techniques, and methods used in staffing and recruiting; ability to identify, select, retain, and relocate qualified personnel, both internally and externally, for a wide range of positions.

• Evaluates the effectiveness of the current recruiting system, techniques, and methods.
• Facilitates the utilization of recruiting and retention best practices and benchmarking.
• Resolves complex problems in the recruiting and staffing processes for various positions.

Workforce Analytics: Knowledge of human resources (HR) and workforce issues and trends; ability to analyze workforce data, information, and metrics and apply the results to support business decisions.

• Implements appropriate analytical tools and applications in workforce project operations.
• Gathers data and researches to monitor workforce trends.
• Generates reports to senior colleagues to support ad hoc projects and dashboards.

Requirements:

• +5 years experience developing talent pipelines for critical business roles and technical roles
• +5 years of Sourcing in a Talent Acquisition Function

Final details

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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .

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