Talent Acquisition Consultant - Melbourne, Australia - Consilio LLC

Description

Working closely with the Melbourne People & Development Manager and Client Solutions team, the Talent Acquisition Consultant will be involved with assisting in the further growth of the Melbourne secondee team.

• Working closely with the People & Development Manager (Melbourne) to attract and select high performing secondees for the Melbourne business including:
• Screening, shortlisting, assessing and interviewing lawyers/paralegals/consultants, and managing selection and regret processes.
• Posting advertisements in line with corporate advertising guidelines and timely processing of applicant correspondence
• Meeting requirements for prequalified, employed and "benched" lawyers and consultants
• Coordinating and preparing recruitment paperwork including preengagement paperwork, offer letters, and extension documentation
• Proactively utilising various platforms including job boards, social media, referrals and the internet to source and attract suitable talent for the Melbourne secondee team
• Building and maintaining an effective talent pools of potential lawyers and consultants (including paralegals and compliance professionals) ie ensuring an appropriate mix of lawyers and consultants to meet business demands with the right skills, seniority, availability and cost.
• Keeping talent pools warm and regularly touching base with current and prospective lawyers and consultants, including when on and off assignment.
• Identifying suitability of Melbourne talent for client assignments inline with their availability.
• Working with the Head of People & Development and People & Development Manager to develop and implement creative strategies to ensure we are attracting the right secondees.
• Negotiating offer process, including salary negotiation with suitable paralegals, lawyers and/or consultants.
• Preparing and updating Melbourne secondee profile marketing documentation.
• Identifying new and innovative ways to attract new talent in Melbourne.
• Updating resourcing databases/spreadsheets with respect to our Melbourne lawyers and talent pool.
• Ensuring all applicants, relevant HR information and recruitment stages are recorded in the CRM and recruitment and other databases as appropriate in a timely manner.

Working with the People & Development team to develop and implement strategies to ensure we are an employer of choice and our lawyers and consultants are effective "ambassadors" for the company.

• Ensuring all lawyers and consultants in the recruitment process and engaged talent have the required preemployment status, practice certificates and/or necessary immigration status.

• Ensuring the Melbourne office is delivering on its yearly resourcing plans
• Increasing the LOD presence in the Melbourne lawyer, paralegal and compliance market, and/or any other emerging markets
• Increasing the available talent pool for Melbourne lawyers and consultants to ensure assignment utilisation
• Maintaining up to date information in our people systems.
• Building successful and meaningful relationships with management team and talent (internal to LOD and external)

• People & Development Manager (Melbourne)
• Melbourne secondees
• Melbourne Client Solutions team
• Australia People & Development team
• Melbourne HQ and wider global HQ team

• Tertiary qualifications in human resources, law or business
• At least 23 years experience in similar role, ideally in professional services or general/legal recruitment related business
• Selfmotivated, positive, organised and detail orientated and able to manage multiple and changing priorities
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Word, Excel, MS Outlook and PowerPoint
• Strong communications skills and the ability to get along well with others in a small team