Head of Recruitment here at JobRack [CLOSED]

Hello, Recruitment Leaders!

Do you love all things recruitment? Love leading a team to success in finding great candidates for great clients?

Have you got experience leading and scaling a recruitment function? Want a real opportunity to drive massive growth at a fun remote-focused recruitment business?

Then read on, because this might just be for you.

Warning! There’s lots of detail here to help you to get to know us, and what we’re looking for - If you are interested in this role, it’s important for us that you go through it so you know exactly what to expect.

If detail isn’t for you then no worries, you’re not for us.

I’m Noel, CEO and Owner of JobRack and you can ‘meet’ me in the short video linked below.

I want to work with exceptional people on my team.

Are you exceptional?

What makes you stand out? What are you passionate about?
Do you love all things recruitment? Are you a leader? A problem solver?

Are you resourceful and data-driven?

Do you smile often? Have an up-beat “can do” attitude?

We want to see this in your application, we want (and need) to get to know you.

We are looking for a Head of Recruitment specifically with these requirements:

• Proven experience in a Head of Recruitment or similar role.
• Minimum of 5+ years experience in high-volume (and high quality) recruiting.
• Demonstrable experience in leading, managing and scaling a team engaged in full-cycle recruiting.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain long-term relationships with internal teams, and external partners.
• Experience with client relationships and external hiring.
• Strong understanding of sourcing techniques and tools, ideally in remote-focused recruiting.
• Hands-on experience with applicant tracking systems, including selection and implementation.
• Proficiency in using software, systems and automation for efficient recruitment.

We're a bit different from other recruitment companies.

• We help our clients hire real team members.
• We offer serious remote jobs for serious remote workers.
• We find people that our clients can trust and build their business around.

We guarantee our clients that we'll find someone they're 'thrilled to hire’.

It's challenging, but we like it that way.

We've been helping people from Eastern Europe get great remote jobs since 2015, and we've recently added South Africa to the mix too.

We hire for all kinds of roles from software developers to marketing specialists, and operations managers to executive assistants, and many more.

We are looking for a driven Head of Recruitment who is comfortable taking ownership of all aspects of our client recruitment - leading, developing and expanding our recruitment team to build a scalable capability that wows our clients and candidates.

Your big goal will be to drive us from our current level of 20 positions per month to 100+ positions filled each month.

No sales required! Our recruiters focus on doing what they do best - recruiting. They don’t need to find new clients or do sales calls. You won’t either.

Why are we hiring for this role?

What got us here won't get us there. It's a cliché, but it's true. We've achieved some great things since we launched our hiring service three years ago:

• We've proven that there's demand for our service.
• We've found the clients who we like to work with (and some that we don't).
• We've found the roles that we really excel at.
• We've transformed businesses through the candidates we've found, and our clients are true raving fans who love working with us.
• We’ve trialled a range of ways of working with various systems and software along the way (with more still to come!).

We're on a mission to help a lot more of these clients hire a lot more team members, so we need to grow our recruitment capability. That's where you come in - if you are up for a big challenge!

The role of Head of Recruitment at JobRack

You will own and lead all aspects of recruitment for JobRack clients and candidates.

You'll lead, develop, and grow our recruitment systems and team to ensure we continue to focus on high quality results for our clients, while also significantly increasing the number of roles we fill each month (from 20 to 100+ per month).

You'll need to be able to demonstrate that you have relevant experience scaling a recruitment function to a similar level.

Here's some of the key responsibilities you’ll have as our Head of Recruitment:

👥 Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead and mentor the recruitment team (currently seven team members), focusing on improving their skills across the full recruitment life cycle from requirements gathering to offer negotiation.
• Identify training needs and deliver interactive training and role-play exercises to ensure our team wow our clients.

⚙️ Operational Excellence:

• Implement and optimise systems and processes for really effective and efficient recruitment to support our growth.

📈 Data-Driven Recruitment:

• Develop and manage recruitment dashboards and reports, using KPIs for informed decision making, team management, motivation and process enhancement.

📋 Innovative Candidate Assessment:

• Evolve candidate evaluation methods including hiring assessments, interviews and testing strategies to identify top talent effectively including the use of technology and AI tools where appropriate.
• Identify and implement ways to mitigate the use of AI by candidates to ensure we truly understand the motivations and skills of the candidates we shortlist.

📶 Candidate Experience Management:

• Oversee and enhance all stages of the candidate journey, from initial application through to interviews and ongoing communication.

💪 Culture of Continuous Improvement:

• Cultivate a team environment focused on learning and continuous improvement in recruitment practices.

🔍 Market Analysis and Strategy:

• Regularly assess market trends to identify and leverage effective recruiting channels and methods.
• Stay abreast of current and upcoming employment legislation and regulations, particularly concerning remote employment approaches.

⭐ Strategic Team Hiring:

• Proactively forecast and plan our own hiring needs in alignment with our growth objectives.

Your experience:

• Head of Recruitment or a similar role
• Fast-paced and high-volume recruiting environment
• Leadership: Team management and client-focused full-cycle recruitment
• Understanding of remote recruitment and markets

Your skills:

• Strong understanding of sourcing techniques and tools
• Knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and candidate database systems selection, implementation and optimisation
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, clients, and the recruiting team
• A really great leader with proven skills in developing and coaching your team

Your personality:

• You get things done!
• Organised
• Direct communication skills
• Inspiring
• Decisive
• Friendly
• Have a growth Mindset
• Goal-driven
• Analytical
• Data-driven
  

Growth Opportunities/Perks:

We’re constantly working to improve our perks and benefits and actively work with our team to identify the things that really matter to them. This is what we offer just now, but if there’s something important to you that’s missing then let’s chat about it. We have plans for other meaningful perks as we hit our near future goals.

• 💰 Salary of £50-75k per year depending on experience and awesomeness (if you think you’re worth more then please apply and tell us why)
• 🌴 Paid holiday
• 🤒 Paid sick leave
• ☀️ Annual team retreat
• 🎉 A fun team that supports each other every day
• 🕰️ Our core hours are European office hours with some flexibility
• ✈️ Work from anywhere (fully remote team)
• 🌟 Huge potential to grow (in compensation and responsibility) as we do

About Us:

Our website needs a little updating, particularly our about page, so here’s a bit about us.

We’re a fully-remote team with team members in London, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Spain and Columbia.

We get to know each other, support each other, and all love helping our clients hire amazing team members.

Our Values

Clarity - we know where we are going and what’s expected of us

We work with Focused Speed

We are Positive and Professional

We Wow our Customers / Clients

We Constantly Improve

Above all we are ….Helpful and friendly

What we do:

Here’s some links where you can get an idea of what we do and how we make our clients feel.

Our Done With You Hiring service

Happy Clients -
https://youtu.be/8QnaOZeML9U?si=k8ifuBA5Y_AJryHi
https://youtu.be/T_Bd99wfVL0?si=uFEI_uicZ2q1UxHx

https://youtu.be/eGJ9EbPIBkI?si=M4ru_CAWR34FWKH7

Our hiring process for this role

We’re looking for someone amazing. We’re going to invest a lot of time into this process, and we’ll expect you to want to do the same.

These are the stages you can expect in this hiring process (we may adjust as needed as we go through):

1 - Invitation to apply

2 - Application form

3 - Initial screening call with Sandra

4 - Short test project (to be discussed at the interview)

5 - Interview with Noel

6 - Second / final interview and face to face meeting somewhere in Europe

We normally hire our team members as independent contractors, so the salary is a gross salary and you would be responsible for your own tax affairs. If you are in the UK then we would employ you ‘normally’ with salary paid via PAYE.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this position. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE - Please do not contact Noel directly about this role - please direct any questions to sandra@jobrack.eu

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