Talent Acquisition Specialist at BDO UK

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

In line with the firm’s ambitious and progressive vision and strategy, resourcing and talent

management plays a key role in its delivery. The BDO Resourcing team works in collaboration with the wider HR team to deliver strategic and innovative resourcing solutions to attract top talent for our 7,000 strong firm. We have an exciting opportunity for a Sourcing Adviser to join the firm in an expanding in-house Resourcing team.

The Sourcing function’s role is to ensure the firm continues to attract high quality candidates who fit the firm’s culture whilst maximising direct hires and providing a seamless, value add experience to its internal & external stakeholders. This role is the first point of contact for all candidates who apply for a position at BDO and will be responsible for being a true brand ambassador for our business, articulating our values and core purpose as well as using sound questioning techniques to determine whether an individual is suitable for a position within BDO.

It will require the post holder to identify and recommend new avenues to market, create new and innovative sourcing solutions for both volume and niche roles, map our key competitors to identify our target market and proactively engage with candidates through our core channels.

You'll be someone with:

• Proven work experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or similar role.
• Previous experience of using online recruitment platforms (LinkedIn, CV Library, Total Jobs).
• Experience in the continual development of talent pipelines and sourcing potential candidates.
• Working knowledge of Professional Services firms would be an advantage, as would experience of using Workday.
• Existing networking relationships within relevant industries and recruitment agencies.
• A sound understanding of talent acquisition best practice.