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.

Along side the scrum team, you'll partner to aligned client groups, designing creative sourcing strategies to recruit top talent, and managing 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.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible on the full life cycle sourcing for the committed requisitions
• Lead and participate in Strategic Sourcing Briefing Call to determine sprint commitment and planning sourcing strategy
• Accountable for the delivery of sprint commitments including identifying/ resolving obstacles, raises issues as necessary, and seek continuous improvement
• Leverage data from LinkedIn Talent Insights, SmashFly scorecard to deliver on the KPIs
• adopt and utilize TA related tools, such as Trello, Mural
• Strive to provide best in class candidate and recruitment experience
• Develop and maintain (passive) top candidate pipeline and continuously develop new channels of sourcing across various countries.
• Adheres to the IBM recruiting process and policies. Building regional knowledge.
  
  
  

Opportunities await to collaborate and co-create with Global TA Strategic Sourcing members from all corners of the globe, while working on exciting global projects.

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 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 difference time zone
  
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

• Experience working in agile methods is highly desirable.
  
  
  

+ Proficiency on Chinese language (written and spoken) is preferred.

About Business Unit

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Your Life @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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About IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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