Canonical
Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead
Nairobi
• Kenya
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Nairobi
• Kenya
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Profession (Computers, software development and services, Mid-level)
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Seniority (Human resources, Computers, software development and services)
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Description
What we are looking for in you
- An exceptional academic background from both high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or People based subject.
- Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry, with an informed view point on graduate hiring essential.
- A highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes, using SQL.
- Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes.
- Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments preferable, including interpretation.
- Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
- Experience of the following tools advantageous: Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Superset, Thomas International/DISC assessments.
- A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective.
- Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
Responsibilities
- Build effective partnerships with leading academic institutions to raise awareness of our graduate opportunities.
- Create a highly effective proposition to inspire top talent to apply to Canonical.
- Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
- Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
- Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes.
- Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
- Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience.
- Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
- Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.
- Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.
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