www.accenture.com – Graduate Recruiter (South Africa)

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world’s most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Our Enterprise workforce provides deep expertise to manage and operate Accenture’s business functions and support client teams.  They work in a wide range of functional areas including human resources, marketing and communications, finance, quality control, legal, IT, facilities and services.

Graduate Recruiter – Harrowdene, Woodmead (GAUTENG)

Human Resources is responsible for ensuring that our organization has the people it needs to fulfill our business strategy and deliver a high performance business agenda for our clients.  To do this, Human Resources focuses on activities ranging from safekeeping our culture and values to development of individual people.  Human Resources ultimately has responsibility for our greatest asset, our people.

Human Resources is involved in every part of Accenture’s organization and Human Resources activities fall into roughly three categories:  Talent management, including workforce planning, recruiting, career management, performance management, capability development, scheduling and rewards; Employee engagement, which focuses on people satisfaction and employee and alumni relations; and Human capital efficiency, which focuses on HR strategy, the operating structure, HR technology, HR service delivery and internal controls.

Responsibilities:

Works with the Graduate Acquisition Lead to build and implement Strategy

Engages with Executives to define the graduate intake target for the financial year

Owns responsibility for the selection, progression and transition management of recruits / candidates through the process

Maintains a thorough understanding of specific skill profiles, salary levels, budget constraints and the needs of the organisation

Takes ownership of recruiting targets, cost management and delivery thereof

Ensuring the following for each recruit / candidate: Offer decisions are made, career level and experience is determined, salary and compensation is determined, start dates are set and confirmed, and primary business location is determined.

Becomes the single point of contact for the recruits as they move through the pipeline as well as the single point of contact for the Universities

Manages entire Recruitment process:

Advertises vacancies on the Accenture Talent Acquisition System

Identifies suitable candidates from incoming resumes

Conducts HR screening interviews and/or Panel interviews

Establishes and maintains relationships with recruits during the interview process

Arranges further assessments including executive interviews as required

Conducts HR closing interview including extending offers

Maintains reports

Reviewing the Recruitment Process annually and making changes to improve the process

Working closely with the Marketing department to ensure that the Accenture brand is marketed at each campus

Building relationships with lecturers; students; campus careers offices

Arranging various campus initiatives e.g. technology days; career fairs; mock interviews; guest lectures; brand ambassadors and award ceremonies

Arranging and facilitating Innovation Showcases

Networking with Graduate Recruiters from other organisations and SAGRA to learn about Graduate recruitment drives in the marketplace

Arrange mock interview sessions on campus