Talent Attraction Specialist (Japanese Speaking)

Introduction

Ready to help build IBM’s biggest asset - its talent? As a Recruitment Professional, you serve an integral role as the main point of contact for both candidates and hiring managers, guiding them through the full recruiting lifecycle. Work with a team using the most innovative approaches to attraction, sourcing, selection, interviewing, offering, and closing. This is an opportunity to shape IBM’s future. Start your journey now!

Your Role And Responsibilities

Talent Attraction Specialist - APJC (Asia Pacific, Japan, Greater China Group) is responsible for identifying and recruiting the best talent into IBM. You will be part of a newly created scrum team working to support all business units across APJC market playing a critical role in the delivery to fill senior positions.

Alongside the scrum team, you'll partner to align client groups, design creative sourcing strategies to recruit top talent, and manage the hiring processes from initiating searches through offer acceptance. There is a strong emphasis on influencing and driving decisions by data.

In addition to recruitment delivery, you will work closely with your local Talent Acquisition (TA) colleagues, i.e. Talent Acquisition Partner (TAP), Talent Acquisition Manager (TAM), Regional Talent Acquisition Leader (RTAL) to support, drive and enable service transformation.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Language proficiency (both written and spoken) is mandatory: Japanese (with JLPT-2 or N2 certificate).
• Solid experience in direct sourcing experience or headhunting background
• Extensive sourcing capability and outstanding local market talent insights and broader business network.
• Deep understanding use Boolean search method in Recruitment and the ability to source passive candidates / assess candidates for fit and quality screening
• Independent, creative and with a strong sense of responsibility
• Excellent communication skills with strong competitive market awareness
• Ability to build a robust network of top talents by gaining market intelligence will be preferred
• Demonstrates the ability to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
• Good time-management skills with the ability to handle various requisitions simultaneously across different time zones
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience working in agile methods is highly desirable.
• Proficiency on Chinese language (written and spoken) is preferred.