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Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books, and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas, and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.
Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.
Job DescriptionAs a Talent Acquisition Partner you will be partnering with hiring managers on vacancies across all of APAC but with particular focus on the Middle East region. You will be working with colleagues across our Global People Team and other internal stakeholders to provide specialist recruitment expertise to resolve local challenges in candidate attraction and candidate management throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
What you will be doing:
- Working with hiring managers to develop effective recruitment plans for candidate attraction, including assisting in the writing of effective job adverts and partnering with managers to design and deliver effective assessment methods.
- Working with local HR teams in global offices to provide recruitment assistance as and when required to resolve local challenges in candidate sourcing.
- Interviewing with managers across the global business for key roles and senior hires.
- Supporting the delivery of the global recruitment process, and educating managers in best practice recruitment process.
- Identify opportunities for combined resourcing activities across the Taylor & Francis business when there are multiple roles of a similar nature.
- Actively seek a diverse range of candidates for vacancies and promote accessible methods of assessment, collaborating with the Talent & Inclusion team and external diversity partnerships to ensure an equitable recruitment process
- Ensure all recruitment advertising is as strong as possible and adheres to appropriate legislation and company policy, and that appropriate selection tools and processes are being used.
- Promote Taylor & Francis recruitment messaging and brand across social media channels to increase candidate attraction. Upskilling and supporting line managers where required on social media use in recruitment.
- Focus on talent acquisition for Dubai and the Middle East region, ensuring the recruitment of top-tier candidates aligned with business needs and market trends.
- Support hiring for Commercial roles by providing exceptional manager and candidate support, fostering engagement and delivering a seamless recruitment experience.
- Supporting the global TA team and other teammates on ad-hoc projects as required.
What we are looking for:
- Experience of partnering with business stakeholders to support recruitment activities across all of APAC and especially prior proven success in hiring in Dubai
- Strong knowledge of recruitment practices including sourcing expertise
- Experience of working in a global organisation
- The ability to deliver at pace and manage multiple projects
- Knowledge of recruitment best practice on interviews and assessment, alongside knowledge of appropriate HR legislation pertinent to recruitment activities
- Knowledge and experience of HRIS/ATS
- Strong communication skills
- Problem solving and a process improvement approach
- Deadline driven, with good time management to balance competing demands
- Demonstrable experience of partnering with stakeholders to support recruitment activities
- Knowledge of working with recruitment systems and maintaining a high level of data integrity
Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our Singapore Office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office location to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.
What we offer in return:
- An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
- Excellent annual leave
- Company funded single cover private medical cover to all colleagues
- Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support
- Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance, plus optical and medical care
Training And Professional Development:
We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.
Interview process:
Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.
We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact [email protected]
Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis:
If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.
We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers
Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/
