Role & responsibilities

As the Sr. Recruitment Analyst, you will serve as a strategic business partner to your customers while executing the full cycle recruitment for your assigned positions. You will partner closely with Hiring Managers to manage the recruiting process from end-to-end, developing strategies and implementing action plans related to both candidate sourcing identification and recruitment process execution. This includes but is not limited to: Educating and advising hiring managers to enable an effective and efficient recruiting process, identifying and sharing recruitment best practices across the business and industry, maintaining current market knowledge, legal and recruitment trends, and developing sourcing methodologies and strategies to target and identify qualified candidates.

The successful candidate will be passionate about Cognizant mission and culture, thrive in a fast-paced environment, be proactive, resourceful and efficient. This person must be well organized, flexible, and enjoy the challenges of supporting a growing company.

Preferred candidate profile

1. In conjunction with all of Talent Acquisition, creates a deep and diverse talent pool to service resourcing requirements across multiple business units.
2. Collaborates directly with hiring managers to understand business and skill set requirements to build a comprehensive strategic hiring plan by setting the vision, strategy, and goals to ensure current and future resource demands are met.
3. As a strategic partner to your hiring managers, provide expertise in market insights, talent landscape, and an understanding of talent needs to establish expectations and build a collaborative approach with your customers to meet demands.
4. Ensure customer satisfaction by providing regular updates to hiring managers and setting expectations on the hiring process per requisition or department, or both, as required.
5. Utilize appropriate sourcing channels (including applicant tracking system, candidate relationship management system, job boards, advertising, networking, employee referral program) to identify qualified candidates.
6. Offers creative solutions to sourcing hard to fill requisitions in collaboration with the business.
7. Responsible to manage full cycle recruiting process to include but not limited to: complete initial screening interview of potential candidates and reject non-relevant applications, prepare candidate profile for hiring manager following interview screen, submit short listed candidates to hiring managers for review, conducts candidate debrief session after interviews are completed and extends verbal offers of employment to successful candidates.
8. Ensures data accuracy within Applicant Tracking System.
9. Initiates and maintains open communication with hiring managers and Human Resources (HR) colleagues in meeting recruiting needs.
10. Performs other job-related duties as assigned

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