Talent Specialist Jobs in Massachusetts

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

**This is a direct hire temporary position

Position Summary: In partnership with TA/HR Leadership, the Talent Specialist (TS) will implement recruitment strategies that provide a best-in-class candidate experience, providing full cycle support from the initial sourcing/application phase through offer. The TS will partner with hiring managers to evaluate skill levels, drive interview best practices, negotiate competitive offers, document selection activity, and disposition all candidates. Establishing stakeholder partnerships deeply rooted in trust and collaboration is essential. The TS will proactively develop and mine talent pipelines to produce a slate of high-quality candidates by utilizing enhanced social media sourcing techniques, networking, prescreening, and interviewing. The TS will serve as a subject matter expert by developing a strong foundation related to BILH business operations and workforce market data, providing insight to leadership and stakeholders to improve performance to meet/exceed goals.

Beth Israel Lahey Health System Services brings together teams that provide essential operational, administrative, and strategic support across the health system. Through collaboration and shared expertise, we help ensure our clinicians, caregivers, and staff can deliver exceptional care to the patients and communities we serve. Departments include but not limited to: Community Benefits, Compliance, Credentialing, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, IT, Marketing and Communications, Philanthropy, Strategy and Supply Chain.

Job Description:

Role Responsibilities:

• Drive Recruitment Process: Develop expert-level knowledge and expertise of assigned functional areas to construct and implement best-in-class recruitment strategies to attract high-quality talent. Advise hiring managers and stakeholders on matters related to candidate screening and selection; Prepare and negotiate job offers.

• Candidate Sourcing: Identify and utilize various sourcing tools/methods that target and engage high-potential passive and active candidates, including ATS searches, social media platforms, networking, direct outreach, and attending recruitment events. Foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion while taking purposeful steps to recruit a diverse workforce. Collaborate with TA Leadership and TA Operations Sourcing team on researching and implementing innovative sourcing strategies to enhance recruitment efforts.

• Candidate Assessment: Conduct applicant screens, in-depth interviews, assessments, and evaluations to determine a match for qualifications. Consult with and provide candidate recommendations to hiring managers and stakeholders. Serve as a talent advocate that supports and promotes an environment of culture add vs. fit.

• Market Knowledge: Utilizes market intelligence and workforce data to develop innovative and competitive recruitment strategies to identify and attract talent. Act as a lead consultant to assigned client areas regarding healthcare recruiting trends, specific business intelligence, and various recruiting tools/strategies.

• Vacancy Management: Ensures vacancy management is properly maintained for reporting purposes.

• Collaboration: Work closely with hiring managers, stakeholders, and senior HR leaders to ensure talent acquisition strategies, including job posting information are relevant to local business needs/goals; Provide guidance related to BILH hiring practices, policies, and procedures.

• Relationship Management: Through strong written and oral communication, establish and maintain effective partnerships with hiring managers and cross-collaborative leaders. Liaise with BILH HR colleagues and HR Centers of Excellence, as needed, to support talent acquisition activities and initiatives. Build and maintain relationships with potential talent to ensure a positive candidate experience. Serve as a talent advisor to internal talent to support and encourage staff development.

• Decision Making: Able to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. Make recommendations for solving problems of high-level complexity and importance.

• Problem Solving: Able to identify and address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents. Use contextualized data that offers findings, insights, and solutions; escalation to TA Leadership, as needed.

• Uphold Recruitment Standards and BILH TA Service Level Agreement: Ensure the quality and effectiveness of recruitment activities for designated client areas. Respond to hiring managers in a proactive and timely manner, educate managers on the hiring process, and recommend/implement process improvements to TA leadership, as needed.

• Compliance: Adhere to all regulations and BILH hiring policies and guidelines. Ensure all recruitment activities adhere to legal and regulatory requirements, including Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines. Ensure all new hire activity is documented in the ATS accurately and in a timely manner.

• Continuing Education: Participate in self-guided or instructor-led training to support ongoing education and training and personal/professional development.

• Hiring Events: Represent BILH and assigned BILH entity at job fairs (virtual and in person), open houses, and college recruiting events. Track and report on key recruitment event metrics to assess the effectiveness of recruitment strategies including ROI.

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree preferred.

• 5-8 years of recruitment experience with experience in high volume recruitment required.

• Prior experience using applicant-tracking systems. Workday experience highly preferred.

• General knowledge of current employment laws and practices.

Desired Skills:

• Proven success with creating time-sensitive, collaborative solutions in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to navigate and influence within a large, matrixed system.

• A passion for working in a mission-driven organization with a desire to learn and grow professionally.

• Demonstrated experience or ability to train, mentor, guide, and inspire team members.

• An engaging and collaborative team player with the ability to quickly develop effective relationships.

• A strong work ethic with a proven track record of personal accountability and follow-through.

• Detail-oriented with excellent communication, interpersonal, and time management skills.

Social/Environmental Requirements:

• Work requires close attention to detail for work to be accurately completed. Intermittent breaks during the workday do not compromise the work.

• Work is varied every day, and the employee needs to be adaptable to respond to these changes and use independent judgment and manage priorities.

• No substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions

• Health Care Status: NHCW: No patient contact. - Health Care Worker Status may vary by department

  
  

Sensory Requirements:

• Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Monitor Use, Visual monotony, Visual clarity, Conversation, Telephone.

  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally in carrying, lifting, pushing, pulling objects. Sitting most of the time, with walking and standing required only occasionally

• This job requires constant sitting, frequent Keyboard use.

• Business travel to attend client meetings, recruitment events, as needed.

Pay Range:

$75,000.00 USD – $105,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Job details

• Employment: Full-time
• Hours/Week: 40
• Shift: Day
• Category: Talent Acquisition
• Pay Range: $75,000.00 USD - $105,000.00 USD
• FLSA: Exempt
• Req ID: JR102149