Specialist: Talent Sourcing (Contract)
The Focus Group
- R1,000 - R10,000 per month
- Contract Senior position
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Kramerville
- Posted 24 Oct 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2625707
About the position
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for sourcing top-tier talent? We’re looking for a Specialist: Talent Sourcing to join our dynamic Talent Acquisition team. In this role, you’ll design and implement innovative sourcing strategies to attract senior and specialist talent across the enterprise, enabling proactive pipelining and supporting business transformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Talent Acquisition specialists to deliver expert candidate identification and attraction.
- Develop and execute tailored sourcing strategies using labour market insights.
- Build robust talent pipelines ahead of demand for critical roles.
- Promote the employer brand and employee value proposition.
- Leverage data, digital tools, and diversity principles in sourcing practices.
- Report on key sourcing metrics and continuously improve performance.
- Collaborate in agile teams to support strategic talent acquisition projects.
- Ensure compliance with relevant labour and data privacy regulations.
Qualifications
- Degree in Business Psychology, Competitive Intelligence, or related field.
- Specialist Talent Sourcing certification (e.g., AIRS, CPSP) preferred.
- 5+ years in full-cycle talent acquisition, with at least 1 year in focused sourcing.
- Experience in executive search or strategic recruiting environments.
- Strong project management and analytical skills.
- Proficiency in ATS/CRM systems (e.g., SuccessFactors, Workday).
- Skilled in Boolean search, passive sourcing, and market intelligence.
- Knowledge of employment legislation and data privacy (POPIA).
Desired Skills:
- Analysis
- Compliance
- Execution
- Executive Search
- Optimization
- Project Planning
- Recruitment
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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