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Executive Recruiter
Thompson Recruiting Solutions (TRS)

POSITION: Executive Recruiter
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario
EMAIL: anjalee@thompsonrs.com

COMPANY BACKGROUND:
Thompson Recruiting Solutions (TRS) provides retained full cycle recruitment, consulting & training services across all industry sectors and function levels, with a focus on both expertise and cultural fit. Thompson Recruiting Solutions was founded by Anjalee Thompson, a proven, resourceful and dedicated executive search professional with over 16 years of recruitment experience. By working with some of the most reputable search firms, Anjalee has been exposed to many tried and true recruitment methods and has learned from the top leaders in the industry. This has enabled her to successfully develop unique best-in-class practices and creative recruiting techniques which fueled her to open up her own recruiting firm in September 2015. Thompson Recruiting Solutions has mastered the perfect combination of urgency, quality and recruitment expertise with a focus on delivering an optimal client experience.

TRS Service Offerings:

• Provide recruitment solutions to organizations across all industries that need a seasoned search professional to recruit top talent at all levels
• Partner with executive search firms to provide external recruitment solutions
• Create training and development programs and sharing best-in-class practices and unique recruiting techniques for corporate recruitment departments that want to emulate the executive search model in house

THE ROLE:

Reporting to and supporting Anjalee Thompson, Founder, Executive Recruiter & Trainer at TRS, this role will be responsible for all aspects of research and recruitment within a thorough and defined search process. The Executive Recruiter will conduct in-depth candidate and company research/target lists using online tools/resources as well as cold calling into companies, identify and pitch opportunities to prospective candidates by phone, conduct phone/skype interviews and/or qualifying calls with potential candidates and develop search related materials including candidate evaluations, reference reports, target lists and various client documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Using a thoughtful and systematic approach to attract the best talent in the industry, research and identify appropriate prospective candidates and sources from relevant organizations and create detailed spreadsheets/target lists for every search assignment
• Contact and capture the attention of gainfully employed prospective candidates through a creative and informative sales technique (recruiters are sales people who sell job opportunities)
• Assess and qualify potential candidates against the search criteria to ensure they possess the right behaviours, experience and cultural fit
• Prepare candidate evaluations once the candidate has been assessed and qualified
• Conduct reference reports for finalist candidates
• Stay in constant communication with the Founder and Executive Recruiter & Trainer and keep her informed of all relevant search activity at all times
• Monitor industry and knowledge management trends while keeping up to date with new information, tools and services

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive training for all of the above.

QUALIFICATIONS & CORE BEHAVIOURS:

• A passion for the executive search/recruitment business; recruitment experience is ideal but will train a person who is hungry to learn and has the right attitude from a similar industry (i.e.: travel agents, customer service agents)
• Exemplary discipline and project management skills with the ability to work well independently and remotely. This is predominantly a work from home opportunity
• Resourceful and a creative thinker with a strong ability to get things done at a high level
• Tenacious, inquisitive and a problem solver; a sleuth who can overcome obstacles and find the right solutions
• Proficient working with online recruitment tools, database search engines, creating Boolean links, manipulating data on the internet and sorting through appropriate online resources
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office, Outlook, Excel, Word; must be extremely IT savvy
• Outstanding judgement with flawless attention to detail
• Understands the importance of and is open minded to “selling opportunities” to gainfully employed potential candidates
• Effective time management skills; able to meet strict deadlines from demanding clients with the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities An exceptional level of professionalism in verbal and written communication
• A true self-starter who is proactive, energetic, fast-paced with a sense of urgency
• A hard worker with an exceptional work ethic who likes to learn
• Customer service focused and a relationship builder
• Possesses general business acumen and is a quick learner

Contact Anjalee Thompson for more information @ anjalee@thompsonrs.com or @ 1.888.245.5025