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Get Access To All JobsWork Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269572
Location: Durham, NC, US, 27703
Personnel Area: HEALTH SYSTEM
Date: Apr 30, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
Occ Summary
The Talent Acquisition Consultant will serve as an internal consultant to leaders and key stakeholders to effectively lead all aspects of the Talent Acquisition/Recruiting process. The Talent Acquisition Consultant will provide strong and effective leadership, direction and professional expertise in all areas of sourcing, recruiting, selecting and retaining talented individuals for DUHS Nursing & Patient Care Services. The Talent Acquisition Consultant delivers recruiting results for professional level, direct care givers in a fast paced, high energy environment, and strengthens the organization’s image as the employer of choice. The Talent Acquisition Consultant is responsible for exceeding internal client expectations in a timely and efficient manner, by identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent who fit the culture, mission and values of Duke University Health System (DUHS).
Work Performed
The Talent Acquisition Consultant is responsible for delivering all facets of recruiting success throughout DUHS. This will be achieved through the development of local, regional and national (where applicable) recruiting plans, employing traditional sourcing strategies and resources, as well as developing new, creative recruiting ideas.
- Build and foster an employment brand that attracts key talent to the organization in the region.
- Maintain candidate slates and pipelines; build talent communities.
- Partner with other members of HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) to develop workforce plans to meet future staffing goals and drive a more diverse workforce.
- Maintain the high standard for talent at DUHS, continuing to raise the bar and leading new ways to think creatively about talent acquisition for Duke into the future.
- Provide thought leadership in driving the direction and synthesis of the new candidate experience.
Program Development and Implementation
- Build and manage productive partnerships with organizational leaders, hiring managers, and HR COEs with strong influencing skills, to gain trust as a knowledgeable talent acquisition consultant/solution provider.
Data Analysis
- Conduct targeted research to collect market and candidate data to help create informed recruiting strategies for Duke.
- Maintain all relevant information in ATS/Brassring to provide transparency to the TA/Recruiting team and others, while also ensuring integrity of reporting data.
- Manage and initiate reference checks, background checks, credentialing and onboarding process for any pending new hires.
- Keep abreast of cutting-edge knowledge relevant to recruiting area (attend knowledge training days and report back to the TA/Recruiting organization, collect intelligence from the marketplace and report back to the TA/Recruiting organization, identify trends and patterns and make recommendations to inform search efforts for critical, difficult-to-fill roles within Duke).
- Provide effective talent-related decision support through the use of timely and meaningful data, analysis, metrics and dashboards.
- Drive continuous improvement across the TA/Recruiting organization team.
- Stay informed about workforce trends and innovative recruitment techniques.
- Oversee maintenance and data integrity of applicant tracking system (ATS)/Brassring and other HRIS system(s).
- Improve organization attractiveness by recommending new policies and practices; monitoring job offers and compensation practices; emphasizing benefits and perks.
- Maintain all relevant information in ATS/Brassring to provide transparency to the TA/Recruiting team and others, while also ensuring integrity of reporting data.
- Adhere to all compliance and regulatory requirements.
Diversity and Inclusion
- Implement and support inclusion recruiting efforts and participate in diversity recruiting events and activities.
- Work across the organization to maximize TA/Recruiting diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts.
- Build and strengthen diversity recruiting competence within the talent acquisition team and among hiring managers.
- Identify, evaluate and present new recruitment sources that will generate quality and diverse applicants (inclusive of ethnicity, gender, age and other dimensions of diversity).
- Develop, enhance and maintain relationships with current and new diversity organizations and partnerships; manage relationships with external diversity organizations and influencers. Influence leaders to help ensure D&I is the foundation by which DUHS Nursing lives the DUHS values.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Exceptional organizational and administrative skills, at ease with abundance of details and complexity, yet mindful of big picture. The ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize them and carry them out independently is required.
- Excellent skills in influence, negotiation, collaboration, and handling difficult conversations required.
- Skilled with competency- and behavior-based interview and assessment required.
- Knowledge of state and federal employment laws.
- Adept with using a variety of recruiting technologies to source talent (internet sourcing, direct recruiting, and networking methods) required.
- Ability to demonstrate managerial courage and provide timely and actionable constructive feedback required.
- Demonstrated self-motivation, energy and tenacity in achieving results; optimistic yet realistic; upbeat attitude; ability to work in a fast-paced, growing environment required.
- Flexibility to travel locally, regionally and nationally to represent DUHS is required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree required.
Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years of progressive Talent Acquisition/related experience required.
- Previous experience in data analysis and interpretation strongly preferred.
- Previous experience in health care, pharmaceuticals, health insurance or related industry preferred.
- Previous experience successfully managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders with a consistent track record of delivering on-time, high quality results.
- Previous experience operating in a consultative and/or advisory capacity required.
- Experience in developing and delivering recruitment strategies and processes to improve outcomes (decreased time to fill, increased quality of hire, etc.) required.
- Experience as a change agent, comfortable with ambiguity, in a fast-paced business environment required.
- Previous experience utilizing an ATS required.
- Previous experience with social media (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) required.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
PHR, CHR, RACR, SPHR, or SHRM-CP/SCP preferred.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
Work Arrangement: Regular
Requisition Number: 269572
Location: Durham, NC, US, 27703
Personnel Area: HEALTH SYSTEM
Date: Apr 30, 2026
At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.
Occ Summary
The Talent Acquisition Consultant will serve as an internal consultant to leaders and key stakeholders to effectively lead all aspects of the Talent Acquisition/Recruiting process. The Talent Acquisition Consultant will provide strong and effective leadership, direction and professional expertise in all areas of sourcing, recruiting, selecting and retaining talented individuals for DUHS Nursing & Patient Care Services. The Talent Acquisition Consultant delivers recruiting results for professional level, direct care givers in a fast paced, high energy environment, and strengthens the organization’s image as the employer of choice. The Talent Acquisition Consultant is responsible for exceeding internal client expectations in a timely and efficient manner, by identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent who fit the culture, mission and values of Duke University Health System (DUHS).
Work Performed
The Talent Acquisition Consultant is responsible for delivering all facets of recruiting success throughout DUHS. This will be achieved through the development of local, regional and national (where applicable) recruiting plans, employing traditional sourcing strategies and resources, as well as developing new, creative recruiting ideas.
- Build and foster an employment brand that attracts key talent to the organization in the region.
- Maintain candidate slates and pipelines; build talent communities.
- Partner with other members of HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) to develop workforce plans to meet future staffing goals and drive a more diverse workforce.
- Maintain the high standard for talent at DUHS, continuing to raise the bar and leading new ways to think creatively about talent acquisition for Duke into the future.
- Provide thought leadership in driving the direction and synthesis of the new candidate experience.
Program Development and Implementation
- Build and manage productive partnerships with organizational leaders, hiring managers, and HR COEs with strong influencing skills, to gain trust as a knowledgeable talent acquisition consultant/solution provider.
Data Analysis
- Conduct targeted research to collect market and candidate data to help create informed recruiting strategies for Duke.
- Maintain all relevant information in ATS/Brassring to provide transparency to the TA/Recruiting team and others, while also ensuring integrity of reporting data.
- Manage and initiate reference checks, background checks, credentialing and onboarding process for any pending new hires.
- Keep abreast of cutting-edge knowledge relevant to recruiting area (attend knowledge training days and report back to the TA/Recruiting organization, collect intelligence from the marketplace and report back to the TA/Recruiting organization, identify trends and patterns and make recommendations to inform search efforts for critical, difficult-to-fill roles within Duke).
- Provide effective talent-related decision support through the use of timely and meaningful data, analysis, metrics and dashboards.
- Drive continuous improvement across the TA/Recruiting organization team.
- Stay informed about workforce trends and innovative recruitment techniques.
- Oversee maintenance and data integrity of applicant tracking system (ATS)/Brassring and other HRIS system(s).
- Improve organization attractiveness by recommending new policies and practices; monitoring job offers and compensation practices; emphasizing benefits and perks.
- Maintain all relevant information in ATS/Brassring to provide transparency to the TA/Recruiting team and others, while also ensuring integrity of reporting data.
- Adhere to all compliance and regulatory requirements.
Diversity and Inclusion
- Implement and support inclusion recruiting efforts and participate in diversity recruiting events and activities.
- Work across the organization to maximize TA/Recruiting diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts.
- Build and strengthen diversity recruiting competence within the talent acquisition team and among hiring managers.
- Identify, evaluate and present new recruitment sources that will generate quality and diverse applicants (inclusive of ethnicity, gender, age and other dimensions of diversity).
- Develop, enhance and maintain relationships with current and new diversity organizations and partnerships; manage relationships with external diversity organizations and influencers. Influence leaders to help ensure D&I is the foundation by which DUHS Nursing lives the DUHS values.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Exceptional organizational and administrative skills, at ease with abundance of details and complexity, yet mindful of big picture. The ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize them and carry them out independently is required.
- Excellent skills in influence, negotiation, collaboration, and handling difficult conversations required.
- Skilled with competency- and behavior-based interview and assessment required.
- Knowledge of state and federal employment laws.
- Adept with using a variety of recruiting technologies to source talent (internet sourcing, direct recruiting, and networking methods) required.
- Ability to demonstrate managerial courage and provide timely and actionable constructive feedback required.
- Demonstrated self-motivation, energy and tenacity in achieving results; optimistic yet realistic; upbeat attitude; ability to work in a fast-paced, growing environment required.
- Flexibility to travel locally, regionally and nationally to represent DUHS is required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's degree required.
Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years of progressive Talent Acquisition/related experience required.
- Previous experience in data analysis and interpretation strongly preferred.
- Previous experience in health care, pharmaceuticals, health insurance or related industry preferred.
- Previous experience successfully managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders with a consistent track record of delivering on-time, high quality results.
- Previous experience operating in a consultative and/or advisory capacity required.
- Experience in developing and delivering recruitment strategies and processes to improve outcomes (decreased time to fill, increased quality of hire, etc.) required.
- Experience as a change agent, comfortable with ambiguity, in a fast-paced business environment required.
- Previous experience utilizing an ATS required.
- Previous experience with social media (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) required.
Degrees, Licensures, Certifications
PHR, CHR, RACR, SPHR, or SHRM-CP/SCP preferred.
Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Talent Acquisition Consultant
Target industries with high H-1B filing volumes
Tech companies, staffing firms, and large healthcare systems file the most H-1B petitions for talent acquisition roles. Focusing your search on these industries significantly improves your odds of finding an employer willing to sponsor.
Frame your degree as meeting specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires a specific bachelor's degree field for H-1B approval. Human resources, business administration, psychology, or industrial-organizational psychology are the degrees most commonly accepted for talent acquisition consultant positions.
Highlight metrics and strategic scope in your resume
Sponsorship approvals depend partly on demonstrating the role is a specialty occupation. Emphasizing workforce planning, full-cycle recruiting strategy, and data-driven hiring metrics strengthens the case that your work requires specialized degree-level knowledge.
Ask about internal mobility and transfer sponsorship early
Some companies hire talent acquisition consultants through L-1 transfers or TN status before pursuing H-1B. If you're already at a multinational firm, ask your HR team whether an intracompany transfer pathway is available before the next lottery cycle.
Prioritize employers with established immigration programs
Companies that have sponsored talent acquisition roles before are far more likely to do it again. Employers with dedicated immigration counsel and HR teams move faster, make fewer errors, and are less likely to withdraw sponsorship midway through the process.
Browse Migrate Mate for pre-vetted sponsoring employers
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Find Talent Acquisition Consultant JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Can a Talent Acquisition Consultant role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, but the employer must demonstrate it qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Roles framed around strategic workforce planning, organizational development, or HR analytics are stronger candidates than generalist recruiting positions, which USCIS has occasionally challenged as not meeting the specialty occupation threshold.
What degree do I need for visa sponsorship as a Talent Acquisition Consultant?
Human resources, business administration, industrial-organizational psychology, or organizational behavior are the most accepted degree fields. A general business degree can work if your coursework included HR-specific subjects. If your degree is in an unrelated field, relevant professional certifications like SHRM-CP alone are unlikely to substitute, but combined with a progressive career history they can support the case.
How competitive is H-1B sponsorship approval for this role compared to tech jobs?
Talent acquisition and HR roles face slightly higher scrutiny than engineering or software positions because USCIS has historically questioned whether they meet specialty occupation standards. That said, approvals do happen regularly when the petition is well-documented. Employers with experienced immigration counsel who know how to frame HR roles tend to have meaningfully better approval outcomes.
Are there visa options besides H-1B for Talent Acquisition Consultants?
Yes. TN status is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals if the role maps to an eligible USMCA category. O-1A is an option for candidates with exceptional recognition in HR or talent strategy. L-1B applies if you're transferring within a multinational company in a role involving specialized knowledge of proprietary recruiting systems or methodologies. Each has different eligibility bars and timelines.
Where can I find Talent Acquisition Consultant jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct option. It's built specifically for visa-requiring candidates and surfaces employer listings with a verified sponsorship history for roles in HR and talent acquisition. This saves significant time compared to filtering through general job boards where sponsorship availability is often unlisted or inaccurate.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Talent Acquisition Consultant jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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