Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead
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Job description
A remote EMEA-based role in Canonical's Talent Science team focused on leading graduate hiring strategy and building partnerships with top universities. The role centres on talent analytics, behavioural interviewing and improving hiring processes rather than being a recruiter position.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Build effective partnerships with leading academic institutions to raise awareness of our graduate opportunities
- Create a highly effective proposition to inspire top talent to apply to Canonical
- Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently
- Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours
- Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
- Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions
- Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience
- Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement
- Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment
- Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic background from both high school and university, with a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or People based subject
- Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry, with an informed view point on graduate hiring essential
- A highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes, using SQL
- Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes
- Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview
- A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective
- Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments preferable, including interpretation
- Experience of the following tools advantageous: Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Superset, Thomas International/DISC assessments
Your team
Talent Science team
Ensures processes are effective and that the business is able to make the best decisions to select exceptional talent; works with a carefully selected hiring cohort, drives initiatives, builds automations and offers an expert viewpoint on assessing talent.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, including lounge access, for company travel
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
Mission
Changing the world on a daily basis through open source; publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 2004
- Open source software
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity and inclusion
- Fairness globally