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Principal Talent Acquisition Sourcer
Northrop Grumman. Provide sourcing support for a variety of engineering positions, including sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in talent acquisition by sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships while applying a business mindset to recruitment strategies. Proficient in leveraging data and market intelligence to enhance staffing solutions and maintain high acceptance rates.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Talent Acquisition SolutionsBoolean Search MethodologyNetworking PlatformsA&D Industry RecruitmentDoD Secret Clearance
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Hard Skills
SourcingScreeningCandidate AssessmentData AnalysisStaffing Strategies
Soft Skills
Customer ServiceFlexibilityRelationship Management
Tools & Technologies
LinkedIn
Certifications & Qualifications
DoD Secret Clearance
Industry Keywords
A&D IndustryTalent DevelopmentRetentionCultural Fit
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide sourcing support for a variety of engineering positions, including sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters
- Manage competing priorities and remain highly flexible in an ever-changing environment
- Anticipate and deliver talent acquisition solutions to recruiters
- Source and recruit qualified talent while maintaining customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and stakeholders
- Apply a business mindset to the talent acquisition function
- Connect talent acquisition, development, retention, and culture phases
- Leverage data and market intelligence to develop and execute staffing strategies
- Source and attract passive external talent
- Utilize Boolean search methodology
- Leverage sourcing data in weekly conversations with hiring managers and TA leadership
- Understand business, program, technological, and cultural challenges
- Assess candidates for cultural, competency, and skill fit via in-person or phone interactions
- Synthesize candidate and hiring manager feedback
- Pre-close candidates early in the process to support high acceptance rates
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience OR Master’s degree and 3 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience OR High School Diploma/GED and 9 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and use of networking platforms (i.e. LinkedIn)
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Recruitment experience within A&D industry preferred
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
- U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Potential overtime
- Shift differential
- Discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and share in company results