Junior Talent Acquisition Consultant

Centurion, Gauteng R104000 - R130878 Y NextCareers

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Optimi has an opportunity for a proactive and detail-oriented Junior Talent Acquisition Consultant to join our Human Resources team. You will play a key role in supporting junior and bulk recruitment activities, ensuring a seamless process for candidates and hiring managers.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Grade 12
  • Human Resources qualification
  • 1–2 years' experience in recruitment
  • Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn, PNet, Simplify.HR
  • Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
  • Fluent in English (written and verbal)
  • MIE Certified Agent (Advantageous)

DUTIES

  • Manage junior and bulk temporary recruitment processes from request to placement.
  • Facilitate recruitment request forms and load ATRs for approval.
  • Screen and shortlist candidates.
  • Conduct interviews and coordinate assessments.
  • Perform reference, criminal, and qualification checks.
  • Provide timely feedback to candidates.
  • Maintain and update the social media recruitment report regularly.
  • Ensure that all job adverts are copy checked and approved by relevant managers.
  • Send approved adverts to the marketing team for posting on the company's website and social media platforms.
  • Prepare purchase requisitions (PRs) promptly upon receipt.
  • Ensure that PRs are signed off by relevant managers and department heads.
  • Submit PRs to finance and follow up on payment status.
  • Ensure POPI compliance in all recruitment activities.
  • Stay updated on recruitment trends and best practices.
  • Deliver an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience.
  • Promote collaboration within the HR team.
  • Assist the HR team with recruitment-related tasks or projects.
  • Support other administrative duties as required.

This position is based in Centurion.

Should you not receive a call from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Talent Acquisition Specialist

Irene, Gauteng SolarAfrica Energy Pty Ltd

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The Talent Acquisition Specialist (TAS) plays a critical role in driving SolarAfrica's hiring strategy by proactively headhunting and securing top talent across specialised, technical, and business roles. This position drives the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and engagement to onboarding coordination, talent assessment, and continuous improvement of hiring practices.

Position of the job in the Company:

The TAS will report directly to the Chief People Officer.

Principal responsibilities:

  1. Manage Talent Identification & Headhunting:

  2. Proactively source and engage top talent through direct headhunting, LinkedIn

  3. Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, and talent mapping.
  4. Build and maintain robust candidate pipelines for current and future business needs.
  5. Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, critical skills, and cultural fit.
  6. Drive market mapping and strategic sourcing initiatives to stay ahead of hiring needs.

  7. Recruitment Process Ownership

  8. Manage the end-to-end recruitment process from role briefing to offer acceptance.

  9. Draft job descriptions, place adverts, manage candidate communication, and ensure a high-touch candidate experience.
  10. Ensure processes are fair, consistent, and aligned with compliance standards.
  11. Partner with People Ops to ensure accurate offers and contracts.

  12. Onboarding Coordination & Management:

  13. Coordinate onboarding logistics to ensure a seamless new joiner experience.

  14. Collaborate with People Ops to deliver onboarding sessions.
  15. Gather feedback to continuously improve onboarding.

  16. Talent Assessment & Evaluation:

  17. Manage structured interview processes, including technical and cultural interviews.

  18. Coordinate candidate assessments and verification processes.
  19. Partner with managers to evaluate candidate quality and hiring outcomes.

  20. Continuous Improvement & Market Insights:

  21. Track and report on key recruitment metrics (time-to-hire, cost savings, quality of hire).

  22. Analyse market insights, salary benchmarks, and sourcing trends.
  23. Recommend and implement improvements to enhance efficiency and experience.

  24. Any other job duties associated with this role.

Experience & Skills

  • 3–5 years' experience in recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within renewable energy, technical, or engineering industries.
  • Proven track record in headhunting, including leadership/C-suite roles.
  • Experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle and onboarding processes.
  • Familiarity with compliance and best practices in recruitment.

Attributes

  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
  • Highly proactive, target-driven, and detail-oriented.
  • Comfortable managing multiple roles simultaneously.
  • Skilled in using ATS systems (e.g., BambooHR, LinkedIn Recruiter).
  • Passion for creating a positive candidate and manager experience.

Desirable

  • Experience recruiting in the renewable energy, engineering, or infrastructure sectors.

What Does Success Look Like?

By Month 3:

  • You are fully up to speed on our recruitment processes, ATS (BambooHR), and sourcing tools.
  • You've successfully run end-to-end recruitment for at least one role, including sourcing, interviewing, and offer coordination.
  • You've begun building strong talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions.
  • You have established effective working relationships with hiring managers and People Ops.

By Month 6:

  • You are confidently managing multiple vacancies simultaneously and consistently meeting a time-to-hire of 30 days.
  • You've demonstrated strong headhunting capability by sourcing quality candidates directly for both technical and senior roles, including leadership positions where required.
  • Hiring managers view you as a trusted recruitment partner, and your pipelines reflect top talent.
  • You're actively improving candidate experience through clear communication, structured assessments, and cultural fit evaluation.

By Month 12:

  • You are driving talent acquisition strategy proactively, anticipating business needs, advising managers, and continuously improving processes.
  • You've contributed to measurable cost savings in recruitment fees through effective direct sourcing and pipeline building.
  • You've implemented market insights and recruitment data to support strategic workforce planning.
  • You are seen as a subject matter expert in talent acquisition, consistently attracting and hiring high-calibre talent aligned with SolarAfrica's culture and values.
  • Your work directly impacts the company's ability to scale through high-quality, timely hires across all levels, including critical leadership roles.

Core Values:

We hire, reward, and recognise our team against these values. It is imperative that you believe in these values and demonstrate them consistently.

  • We are passionate and proud of what we do.
  • We communicate candidly, especially when it is difficult.
  • We take the initiative, share our mistakes, and grow together.
  • We are dependable and take accountability.
  • No one person is bigger than the solution - no egos.
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Talent Acquisition Specialist

Midrand, Gauteng R400000 - R800000 Y Optimal Growth Technologies

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Talent Acquisition Specialist
Location: Midrand
Contract duration: 3 months
Scope of the role:

  • Responsible for leading and driving talent resourcing initiatives
  • Collaborate with respective business stakeholders to understand their talent needs and align resourcing strategies to meet the people plans.
  • Ensure customer obsession and adopt the best recruitment approaches to drive a seamless candidate experience.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership
:

  • Collaborate with business to develop and cultivate excellent working relationships to build in-depth understanding of requirements in order to plan sourcing strategies
  • Build talent pipelines for future needs.
  • Lead and coordinate end-to-end talent acquisition services including being accountable for proactively communicating and updating key stakeholders
  • Consult with the business to support targeted attraction strategies for relevant business area based on the business drivers/strategy, research and analysis.
  • Pro-active sourcing of candidates via internal databases, alternate sourcing channels, referrals, talent days and talent mapping exercises in order to meet client requirements.
  • Provide market trends and analysis on a regular basis, utilising these insights to influence recruitment plans.
  • Engage with preferred suppliers where necessary and build working relationships to deliver the right talent for the business.
  • Accountable for resourcing reporting, including analysis of performance against KPIs and insights to shape the business area to further shape the business area specific resourcing strategy.
  • Provide an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
  • Assist with the alignment and achievement of Business Area Transformation targets through targeted sourcing and shortlisting.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

  • Experienced talent acquisition specialist who has managed significant portfolios of complex recruitment for a demanding client base with a deep functional expertise
  • Customer obsessed with experience of delivering a customer centric resourcing service and demonstrate innovation to problem solving as well as service delivery.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment.
  • An effective and persuasive communicator who seeks insight into the business needs and acts as a knowledgeable advisor, as well as liaise and influence at senior level
  • Strong networker, who adapts well to changing priorities, demonstrates resilience, flexibility and energy.
  • Ability to analyse recruitment data and trends and to implement corrective actions.
  • Commercial Acumen
  • Experience in dealing with tight deadlines in a fast moving environment and dealing with complex roles and business areas

Must have technical / professional qualifications
:

  • Matric / Grade 12 or SAQA Accredited Equivalent*
  • Minimum of a B Degree with HR specialization or SAQA Accredited Equivalent*
  • 5-8 years' experience in recruitment industry
  • Experience in developing and delivering recruitment strategies and processes to improve outcomes.
  • Experience in research, market mapping, and stakeholder management

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

  • Experienced talent acquisition specialist who has managed significant portfolios of complex recruitment for a demanding client base with a deep functional expertise
  • Customer obsessed with experience of delivering a customer centric resourcing service and demonstrate innovation to problem solving as well as service delivery.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment.
  • An effective and persuasive communicator who seeks insight into the business needs and acts as a knowledgeable advisor, as well as liaise and influence at senior level.
  • Strong networker, who adapts well to changing priorities, demonstrates resilience, flexibility and energy.
  • Ability to analyse recruitment data and trends and to implement corrective actions.
  • Commercial Acumen
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Talent Acquisition Specialist

Midrand, Gauteng R250000 - R750000 Y lovisa

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Lovisa is fast-fashion Retail

Lovisa is global, and its growth is infectiously energetic

Develop your internal capabilities, with an eye to the next career role

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German Language required to assist Germany (and other parts of Europe and Africa)

The role:

  • Lovisa has 400 stores in Europe and Africa and a Global Support Centre in Johannesburg.
  • This role is part of the EMEA Talent Acquisition team
  • Perform full-cycle recruitment for our Africa HQ in Johannesburg (on average four hires per month)
  • Facilitate the smooth operation of self-service Retail Store recruitment for Southern Africa and Germany (on average 50 hires per month)
  • Role reports to Head of TA for EMEA, in Europe
  • Develop and implement agile recruiting plans for different situations in different countries for different roles. Sometimes Indeed works, sometimes local job-boards, sometimes Linked-in. Sometimes the shopping centre job-board. Sometimes internal referrals, or a store-window advertisement. Sometimes you may do a proactive LinkedIn search. Sometimes we may get too many applicants that need to be brought back to manageable numbers. You work out what's our best supply channels and screening for each area
  • Hiring Managers assess and interview store candidates, there are too many stores for you to do it – your job is to make sure they have quality supply
  • Social Media recruitment – maximize the channels at our disposal
  • Engage and manage agencies if we've shown its required
  • Master the ATS, and the reporting insights it gives us
  • You will be working with top-notch recruitment and HR leadership in Africa and Europe. You should expect high exposure to best-practice thinking in recruitment, and we welcome your input and ideas.

You:

  • You will speak German professionally
  • You will not focus on what cannot be done, you will be discover what can be done. Internal recruitment cannot leave a problem unsolved
  • Urgency. It's retail, after all. Everything is needed now
  • English required, but any other languages would be useful
  • Having been in recruitment before would be helpful. Not absolutely necessary if you are bright, engaging, positive and absorb training like a sponge, but having done some recruitment – or worked in a retail store environment – would give you a head start
  • We are a 5-days in the office company. Culturally retail staff go every day to their place of work, and the Support Centre culture is the same
  • You will not be someone who changes job every year. We expect to invest time and training into you, which will be safer if you have a stable track record
  • You will have your own energy. We will help direct you, but not push you

Benefits to you

  • Work for a cool brand
  • Get exposure to Africa and Europe, you will make new friends in different countries
  • Learn everything everywhere about supply of retail people
  • Spend time with leaders in HR and Recruitment, develop and test your own theories on how to do the job better
  • You will be encouraged to embrace digital
  • You will be trained as an expert in a fresh, new ATS
  • Oh, and you will have fun. Our people are nice.

Reach out, have a conversation with us. We would love to talk with you about this role.

We believe in supporting diverse cultures and harnessing the unique knowledge and experience of our team. We celebrate our global presence, by supporting our culturally diverse team around the world.

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360 Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Specialist

Midrand, Gauteng R400000 - R1200000 Y ARETEC

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Gauteng, Midrand

Job Title: 360 Tech Recruiter

Location: Midrand Johannesburg

Employment Type: Permanent

Reports To: Talent Acquisition Lead

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic 360 Tech Recruiter to join our team. This role requires a full-cycle recruiter who is confident managing every stage of the recruitment process, from business development and client relationship management to sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates. You will play a pivotal role in driving growth by delivering high-quality talent across a variety of technology roles while building and maintaining strong client partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

  • Client Acquisition & Relationship Management:
    • Develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients within the technology industry.
  • Identify new business opportunities and actively engage in business development to grow client base.
  • Partner with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand workforce needs and deliver tailored recruitment solutions.
  • Full Recruitment Lifecycle:
    • Manage end-to-end recruitment across permanent, contract, and interim tech roles.
  • Source niche candidates through a variety of channels including LinkedIn, job boards, networking, headhunting, and referrals.
  • Conduct candidate screening, interviews, and assessments to ensure technical and cultural fit.
  • Prepare candidates for interviews and guide them throughout the hiring process.
  • Negotiate job offers and close placements effectively.

  • Market & Talent Insights:

    • Stay up to date with the latest tech market trends, emerging skills, and competitor activities.
  • Advise clients on talent availability, salary benchmarking, and hiring strategies.
  • Recruitment Operations:
    • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of clients and candidates in the database
  • Deliver against KPIs and targets related to business development, placements, and revenue.
  • Contribute to employer branding initiatives by representing the company at industry events, job fairs, and networking sessions.

Skills & Competencies

  • Proven experience as a 360 recruiter or full-cycle recruiter, ideally within the technology sector.
  • Strong business development and client relationship management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to source niche and hard-to-find tech talent in competitive markets.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple recruitment projects simultaneously.
  • Commercially driven with a results-oriented mindset.
  • Proficient with recruitment tools, ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and job boards.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, IT, or related field (preferred but not mandatory).
  • A minimum of 3+ years' experience in full-cycle recruitment, with at least 2 years in tech recruitment.
  • Strong understanding of technology roles, skills, and trends (e.g., software development, cloud, DevOps, data,).

What We Offer

  • Base salary plus commission structure.

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology clients and startups.

  • Career growth in a fast-paced, dynamic recruitment environment.
  • Supportive and collaborative team culture.

For more information please contact:

Sfundo Shoba

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