Talent Acquisition Associate

Job Description

Talent Acquisition Specialist-Associate | Fedex

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Fedex. Fedex is a global leader in express transportation, delivering essential transportation and business solutions to over 220 countries and territories worldwide. This Talent Acquisition Specialist-Associate position is integral to the company’s “Operational Workforce Planning & Acquisition” strategy, specifically focusing on high-volume recruitment for critical areas like Customer Experience, Operations, and Sales. The person in this role directly contributes to building and maintaining the outstanding team members who are responsible for delivering the impeccable service customers expect, thus supporting the company’s “People-Service-Profit” philosophy and securing its future success.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Team: Operational Workforce Planning & Acquisition
• Mission: This role is responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process to build a strong talent pipeline and deliver an excellent candidate experience for strategic operational workforce planning.
• Tech Stack: LinkedIn, job portals, ATS, recruitment databases

What You’ll Actually Do
• Recruitment Cycle Oversight: Manage the entire recruitment cycle from start to finish, which includes gathering job requirements, facilitating candidate offers, and supporting the onboarding process to ensure a smooth transition for new hires.
• Hiring Manager Partnership: Collaborate closely with various hiring managers to gain a deep understanding of their specific job needs, required skills, and how potential candidates will fit into existing teams and the broader organizational culture.
• Talent Identification & Screening: Proactively source qualified candidates using a variety of channels such as professional job portals, LinkedIn, social media, employee referrals, and internal databases. This includes screening resumes and conducting initial candidate assessments and interviews to identify top talent.
• Candidate Journey Management: Act as the primary point of contact for candidates throughout the recruitment process, coordinating interviews with hiring teams, managing all communication, and ensuring a consistently positive and engaging candidate experience.
• Pipeline & Performance Management: Maintain and regularly update the recruitment pipeline and candidate database to ensure accurate tracking. This also involves tracking key recruitment metrics like time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and offer-to-joining ratio to continuously improve hiring performance and develop talent pools for future needs.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a closely related field is required to provide a foundational understanding for this role.
• Experience: Mandatory experience of 3 to 5 years specifically in Talent Acquisition or Recruitment, demonstrating a solid track record. This includes hands-on proficiency with essential recruitment tools such as LinkedIn, various job portals, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and recruitment databases.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of modern sourcing and recruitment techniques, coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective candidate and stakeholder engagement. Possessing strong negotiation, stakeholder-management, and coordination abilities is also crucial for success in managing the end-to-end recruitment process.