Senior Tech Recruiter (360)

Senior Tech Recruiter

Cape Town/Remote

Work from Home (Always)

Are you a skilled Tech recruiter looking for an exciting challenge? Do you have exceptional communication skills and a polished approach to your work? If so, we want to hear from you!

A senior recruiter in the Progressive Edge Recruitment business is a professional who is critical in identifying, sourcing and placing top technical talent for our valued clients across Cape Town. You will also need to be excited about working as a team to bring in, close and deliver on new and existing business. Your area of expertise lies in both partnering with companies and great talent and walking them through the recruitment process while having fun doing so.

The kind of recruiters who excel at Progressive Edge are specialists with advisory skills.

You will be responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, and partnering with your client throughout the full recruitment cycle. The ideal candidate for this role will thrive in a quality-focused boutique specialist agency.

Our Value Proposition

Progressive Edge is a well-respected Boutique Tech recruitment agency. Our own clients are our best business developers and recommend us over and over again.

You will work in a powerhouse team with passionate recruiters. Together we play, strategize, bounce ideas off each other and support each other. No one works alone. We offer a supportive environment rather than a competitive environment.

As a team, we are a group of very different individuals who all love recruitment. This is a rare thing but a prerequisite for working for Progressive Edge. We hold high standards and intentionally draw nearer to companies (clients) who do the same.

To us, this isn't just a job. This is a place where work is one of the ways we all grow and expand, and where we create opportunities for ourselves and others. This is a role where you affect the lives of people, and where you help our clients progress with growing their business in complex technical areas. You will drive processes to ensure that quality matches are being made, in an ethical and efficient way. You will work with your team to keep improving these processes and innovating.

If togetherness and being more than a lone wolf appeals to you then this will be the right spot for you. We work remotely but not in isolation. For those based in Cape Town, we meet up for chatty breakfasts or lunches from time to time, always in a beautiful spot.

Here's who we are looking for from a personality perspective, is this you?

• A self-driven individual who cares about quality and takes pride in the work they produce. You need to have a polished approach to your work.
• A person who can be relied upon by their teams, their clients and the candidates who trust them with their applications.
• A person who values their reputation, and conducts their work in an honest and ethical manner, even when it means turning away placements, clients, candidates or saying no.
• If you came from a dodgy agency you would need to leave some of those practices at the door! No marketing CVs without candidates knowing, no spamming, and no mass mails and no annoying potential clients with cold calls.
• You need to actually enjoy recruitment; not everyone does.
• The ideal candidate will think out of the box when needed, to find solutions to recruitment challenges we face as a business. We are not looking to stay the same and keep working in the same way; we want people to help us continuously re-shape our way as a team.
• You naturally build strong relationships, you have a kind demeanor, but can be firm when required.
• You take initiative.
• You close the loop on each piece of work without being asked to do so.
• You are interested in, and excited by technology.
• Ability to look up and learn new areas of technologies that you don't have exposure to, to independently and continuously build your knowledge in your market to ensure more effective matches across various stacks and areas of technology.
• You are people-centric and have a genuine care for the well-being of others, and yourself.
• You have a sense of humour, along with a strong moral compass.
• Committed to quality over quantity.

These are the kinds of things that will keep you busy

• Research, source, identify and interview candidates for open positions allocated to you to ensure you maintain these clients.
• Walk both clients & candidates through the entire recruitment cycle.
• Update and maintain the ATS giving care to data quality.
• Update & maintain both CRM, & Project Management tools.
• Both permanent and contracting positions may form part of your portfolio.
• Contribute to the constant improvement of systems, tools & processes.
• Implement your own operational structures to ensure you are meeting the volumes you need to in order to meet the expectations of the business, your clients, and anyone else you have committed to.
• Work with the team in streamlining processes to continuously improve business processes and workflows.
• Continuously attract talent by using multiple sources to advertise and recruit.
• Continuously build a talent pipeline and referral network.
• Negotiating offers.
• Ad-hoc administrative duties.
• Develop and update job descriptions.
• Efficiently manage a strong candidate flow to the team.
• Identify and implement new innovative ways to source and connect with talent.
• Mentor other recruiters and share knowledge wherever you can.
• Contribute positively to the culture of the team.

Requirements:

• 4 years experience in AGENCY Recruitment at a minimum, with 10 years overall work experience. This is a senior position.
• A polished approach to your work.
• Experience in hiring for IT / Tech related positions essential.
• You need to have a good idea of the tech landscape in South Africa, various companies, their environment and tech stacks.
• Experience supporting a fast-paced organization.
• Experience using an ATS (applicant tracking system) and other tools such as HubSpot, Asana and various sourcing tools would be an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of various earning packages and ability to create comparisons to support your negotiations during the hiring stage.
• Strong interviewing skills and ability to draw out the right information to gauge suitability and fit for various positions.
• Ability to connect with a wide range of people from junior through to exec level.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal.
• You need to have both the ability and confidence to engage with high-level candidates.
• You will need a stable working track record.

Note: All applications without a Tech recruitment focus, or those with no recent agency recruitment experience will be rejected. We are specifically looking for an experienced external Tech recruiter for this role.