Rackspace Hiring for Recruiter APJ at Remote Full Time

Responsible for recruiting predominantly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, as well as supporting Australia as needed. Delivers high quality candidates and advances the Rackspace brand across numerous markets and professional communities, while guiding hiring managers and candidates through the Rackspace selection process. Performs full life cycle recruiting and maintains relations with hiring managers, candidates, and the community at-large. Requires a wide degree of creativity, business understanding, and personal organization.

Rackspace Technology is a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and hiring is a lead priority for the business, and very much valued and supported by senior leadership. This is a fantastic opportunity to be able to work with a very experienced international talent team. We are growing so looking for someone to help drive this growth and be able to grow with us.

We are looking for:

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience as a recruiter in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, within IT industry, ideally with cloud talent
• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship management skills
• Experience recruiting technical and sales roles
• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple roles & prioritise high volumes of recruitment
• Ability to work independently with strong time management skills in order fill roles in a timely, efficient manner
• Demonstrated ability to source candidates using multiple, creative solutions
• Confidence & capability to partner effectively with and manage stakeholders at various levels of seniority
• Ideally hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) (we use Lever)
• Dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a passion to advocate for more inclusive approaches to hiring
• A desire to improve processes

We value flexibility, and have wonderful benefits including the day off for your birthday, great people you can learn from and have fun with, excellent annual leave policy including time for volunteering, and learning and development, you can also gain professional certifications. We also have an excellent spotlight rewards program where people can praise your work, or values, and you can buy lots of awesome goodies with the points you earn there, as weekly/quarterly/annual awards.

Apply now if you want the chance to showcase your recruitment skills in a fast paced growing technology company, where you can quickly make an impact.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for full life cycle recruitment across all departments (Technical Support, Service Delivery, Professional Services, Sales & Marketing and other teams as needed) from sourcing, screening and selection, coordinating interviews, to negotiation, offer and close

Develops and maintains working relationships with stakeholders, vendors and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, predictable results and credibility

Develops and maintains a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates

Leverages online recruiting resources to identify and recruit the very best candidates and participates in the development of ongoing creative and cost-effective sourcing strategies

Manages the engagement and relationship with recruitment agency partners as required

Provides complete, accurate, and inspiring information to candidates about Rackspace, our business strategy, department background, job descriptions, and expectation- setting

Maintains accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, hiring manager’s interactions, and other recruiting activities

Develop a deep understanding of Rackspace and our culture and use this understanding to help candidates fully understand the opportunity

Stay informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques in order to be competitive

Effectively encourage and monitor all referrals from Rackers to maximize this source

All time to offer guidelines, job descriptions, person specifications and interview processes are agreed prior to the commencement of the recruitment process to ensure an effective and efficient process

Cost effective recruitment is achieved and maintained

Applicant quality, time to fill and quality of hire

Skills & Experience

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of professional Human Resources experience

A minimum of 4 years of experience focused only on recruiting and talent acquisition

Experience managing full lifecycle recruiting gained ideally within the IT industry across all Departments using direct sourcing methods (Networking, LinkedIn, Job-Boards, Internal Talent Pools) and the ability to identify the best talent

Must be able to quickly assimilate technical information and build recruiting solutions to the optimal balance of meeting business needs, remaining competitive in talent market, and operating within financial resource constraints

Basic project management skills with the ability to manage multiple assignments across a broad technical skill set

Effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed and appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts

Demonstrated ability to build and maintain productive partnerships with Hiring Managers and Leaders with the ability to influence key stakeholders with the courage to challenge and set expectations

Creative approach to recruitment and ways to attract top quality candidates with the ability to present new recruiting concepts to Stakeholders

Strong initiative and solid judgment abilities/skills

Ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information appropriately

Solution orientated, able to solve complex recruitment problems and challenges

A drive for results, able to manage a high-volume workload in a fast-paced environment

Effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed

Strong use of initiative, thinks ahead and can think and act independently

Demonstrated ability to consistently provide FANATICAL support and put the customer first

Process and data orientated, understands the importance of data within a talent acquisition function

Preferred

Solid background using direct sourcing strategies to identify and hire top technical sales talent to include Sales Reps (Acquisition/Business Development), Solution Architects, Presales Consultants, Professional Services

Experience working within a fast-paced technical industry.

Experience recruiting technical and sales roles

Previous experience recruiting and networking with cloud talent

Extensive experience managing full lifecycle recruiting gained within the IT industry

Strong experience of recruiting across Asia with a deep knowledge of the talent markets in region

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.