Talent Acquisition Advisor

Shoreham-by-Sea , United Kingdom
full-time

AI overview

Own the end-to-end recruitment process for entry-level sales hiring, while building relationships with educational institutions to create sustainable talent pipelines.

Talent Acquisition Advisor | Own Entry-Level Sales Hiring End-to-End

Salary £35,000 + Benefits  

Turn potential into performance by building our next generation of sales talent.

About Focus Group

We're powering the digital workplace for 30,000+ UK businesses with a £1bn valuation and 1,300+ employees across 20 offices. We're one of the UK's fastest-growing tech companies, and our ambitious growth plans mean we're constantly hiring talented people to fuel our success.

Our Talent Acquisition team plays a critical role in attracting, assessing and securing the best talent in the market, ensuring Focus Group remains a destination employer in the tech industry.

The Role: Hands-On Recruitment

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you'll own the end-to-end recruitment process for multiple roles across our group. This is a high-volume, fast-paced role where you'll spend your days sourcing candidates, screening CVs, on the phone assessing potential, arranging interviews and keeping the pipeline constantly full.

But it's not just about filling roles. You'll also help implement our future strategy for early-career talent hiring, enhance our employer value proposition, and build relationships with universities and education providers to create sustainable talent pipelines.

Your day-to-day

  • Conducting phone screens and assessments with high volumes of entry-level sales candidates
  • Screening CVs quickly and efficiently to identify candidates with the right potential and drive
  • Arranging and coordinating interviews, ensuring a seamless experience for candidates and hiring managers
  • Keeping your pipeline full with qualified candidates ready to interview
  • Building innovative sourcing campaigns using LinkedIn, social media, careers fairs, campus recruitment and networking
  • Partnering with sales managers to understand their needs and deliver candidates who'll thrive
  • Establishing and maintaining relationships with universities, colleges and education providers
  • Managing the full recruitment cycle from sourcing through to offer for multiple vacancies simultaneously
  • Tracking metrics and keeping recruitment databases up to date
  • Creating compelling content that positions Focus as the best place to launch a sales career
  • Contributing to strategic projects that improve our approach to entry-level sales hiring as we scale

Who We're Looking For

  • Volume recruiter – Whether you're from agency or in-house, you thrive in fast-paced environments managing multiple vacancies and keeping pipelines moving
  • Passionate about AI – You'll embrace and be part of our AI journey to enhance our efficiency and the recruitment experience
  • Sales savvy – You understand what makes a great BDE/SDR and can assess potential quickly
  • Relationship builder – You can engage everyone from university career services to senior sales leaders
  • Innovative sourcer – You know how to build talent pipelines, source across multiple channels (job boards, LinkedIn etc) and find candidates others miss
  • Highly organised – Managing multiple priorities and deadlines doesn't phase you
  • Team player – You're part of a growing Talent Acquisition team within a People & Culture function. You will proactively work with and support colleagues.
  • Results-driven – You're motivated by filling roles quickly without compromising on quality
  • Strategic thinker – You can execute operationally while thinking about long-term talent strategy

What You'll Earn

  • Competitive salary £30,000 - £35,000 (DOE)
  • Company pension
  • Wellbeing support
  • Perks platform with discounts
  • Regular team socials and company events

Our Values

Respect - Treat colleagues and customers with respect

Integrity - Uphold the highest standards of honesty and fairness

Teamwork - Engage and collaborate with colleagues and partners

Ambition - Determination to be the best that we can be

Don't let the requirements hold you back! We value passion, potential, and a willingness to learn just as much as experience. We're a fast-paced and growing environment, and if you're excited about talent acquisition and building our next generation of sales talent, we encourage you to apply – even if you don't tick every box.

Focus Group are committed to ensuring protection for all personal information that we hold, and to provide and protect all data. All staff share in this responsibility and must take appropriate steps in protecting all data. All incidents or risks that may impact this protection must be reported to their manager or to the Data Protection Officer.

Welcome to Focus Group. Established in 2003, we’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading independent providers of essential business technology. Here to take care of all your telecoms, IT and connectivity services. This means everything in one place, one point of contact and one bill to cover everything you need. SME or global enterprise business; public sector, service sector or charity…whatever your size, shape or service, we’ll take the time to get to know your business and deliver the technology to fit the bill. Our teams are experts in their field; passionate about finding the right solutions for you and committed to ensuring your business runs like clockwork. We’re by your side to keep your business phone system at the top of its game, your IT optimised, your data secure, your teams connected and your customers happy. At all times. Leaving you free to focus all your energy on the important stuff. Like growing your business. Telecoms | Mobile | Connectivity | IT solutions | Cyber security | Energy Let’s connect. Let’s grow.

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