About the role

Talent Acquisition Specialist responsible for full recruitment cycle at Dayshape, enhancing diversity and candidate experience while managing external relationships.

Responsibilities

Ensuring we’re bringing in the right people at the right time
Ensuring all candidates have an excellent experience
Conducting searches through channels like LinkedIn Recruiter to find the best candidates for our vacancies (including passive candidates)
Identifying and delivering on opportunities to improve diversity of candidates and inclusivity of the recruitment process
Supporting hiring managers with our in-house recruitment cycle, including advice, training, and recruitment admin
CV and phone screening candidates
Providing feedback and identifying improvement opportunities for our recruitment processes and communications
Managing relationships with external recruiters
Monitoring, and improving recruitment KPIs
Managing candidate offers and references
Monitoring and maintaining of the ATS

Experience in in-house recruitment across the full hiring cycle
Knowledge of recruiting passive candidates - identifying and engaging with top talent
Experience using an ATS (we currently use Workable)
Strong knowledge of Boolean, x-ray search
Knowledge of sourcing tools
Strong screening and/or interviewing skills
Knowledgeable about recruitment-related compliance (e.g. right to work, Equality Act)
A bias for action, with demonstrable experience proactively taking initiative to improve systems and processes
Adaptable and able to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment
Comfortable with owning the whole recruitment process, moving between administrative and strategic tasks as required
Highly organised and detail-oriented (you almost never miss something!)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A strong relationship-builder, able to work collaboratively across departments, building trust and influence at all levels of the business
Sound judgement - making assertive decisions about sensitive matters with compassion and discretion
**Bonus points if you have**
Experience in a scale-up (or similar) environment
Experience recruiting within a software company
Experience in talent search for technical roles (e.g. software engineers)
Familiarity with Workable specifically
Experience managing relationships with external recruiters

At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Enhanced family leave policies
Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
Income protection and death in service cover
Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!