Recruiting Consultant

Job Summary

Georgia Power is seeking to hire a highly professional, fast-paced, well-organized, full-time Recruiter who will support the Power Delivery business unit . Your success in this role will depend upon your passion around full-life cycle recruitment while emphasizing a positive candidate and hiring manager experience, your ability to consult with hiring managers to help them solve complex recruitment challenges, your ability to source and identify talent and your competence in matching great talent.

Core Skills Of a Recruiter Include

• Salesperson / Company spokesperson: ability to communicate company strategy, business plan, structure and point of view on key business topics to prospective candidates.
• Candidate Relationship Management: establish relationships with candidates through appropriate correspondence.
• Internal/External Client Relationship Management: establish and maintain effective relationships with hiring managers
• Project Management: ability to plan, organize, track and deliver results by leveraging others
• Core Recruiting Skill Set: source, screen, and interview candidates for open positions.
  
  

The Recruiting Consultant is responsible for providing the highest level of recruiting services. These services include: recruiting and sourcing, strategy development and implementation to meet business needs; sourcing, screening and hiring of internal and external candidates; and consultations with hiring managers and Human Resources partners around staffing and recruiting. A high degree of creativity, short- and long-term recruiting vision, understanding of the Power Delivery business unit , and personal organization is preferred.

This position will be located at the Georgia Power Headquarters in Atlanta, GA.

Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Maintain ownership of the full-life cycle recruitment process and hiring expectations.
• Build strong relationships with the various line and functional clients to ensure the ability to influence, guide and drive the recruiting process.
• Work closely with Hiring Managers and HR partners to meet hiring needs and ensure that hiring is consistent with business goals; increase candidate flow and develop strategic solutions that will attract and acquire high quality, diverse candidates.
• Evaluate candidate backgrounds to match core competencies with key hiring requirements and assess fit.
• Advance and execute against creative sourcing techniques for primarily skilled labor roles
• Build and maintain a competitive intelligence database qualifying and extracting information from multiple sources to create a candidate pipeline for current and future hiring needs.
• Maintain compliance requirements for applicant tracking system.
• Participate and lead career awareness events such as career fairs, informational sessions and interview preparation programs with local community groups, Technical Colleges and military bases.
  
  

Education

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Communications, Marketing or related discipline preferred.
  
  

Experience (_ direct recruiting experience is not required _):

• Recruiting experience with demonstrated knowledge of strategic sourcing strategies including direct sourcing, selection techniques in addition to excellent consultative, strategic thinking, problem solving, influential and interpersonal skills is preferred
• Prior work experience in a fast- paced environment with high volume transactions and management of multiple projects simultaneously is preferred
• Demonstrated ability to engage, consult and partner with both external and internal clients.
• Experience working with computer-based tracking systems.
• Previous participation in Military recruiting events, technical colleges and community at-large recruiting events.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to cultivate strong business relationships with hiring managers and HR partners in the development of strategies, leveraging market intelligence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with industry leaders, vendors, and community organizations, with proven ability to effectively network.
• Ability to develop, deliver, and execute multiple sourcing plans for a variety of positions, including non-exempt and skilled labor.
• Ability to effectively manage the offer process, including providing salary recommendations, handling offer negotiations, and closing the deal.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit for a broad range of positions in a high -volume environment.
• Strong project management experience.
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to properly interface with all levels within the company.
• Ability to professionally develop, deliver, and present new recruiting concepts to leadership and technical communities.
• Effective time management and prioritization skills, resulting in effective and efficient results and outcomes.
  
  

Other Attributes

• Must constantly remain focused on personal and job safety as a top priority.
• Demonstrated passion and "sales" approach to recruiting.
• Customer focused.
• Self-directed with strong initiative.
• Detail oriented.
• Flexible, open to change, and adaptable.
• Respectfully and appropriately challenges the status quo.
  
  

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million residential and commercial customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy infrastructure company with national capabilities, a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience, and sustainability, we are taking action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture and hiring practices have earned the company national awards and recognition from numerous organizations, including Forbes, Military Times, DiversityInc, Black Enterprise, J.D. Power, Fortune, Human Rights Campaign and more. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com .

Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf . Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.

Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Job Identification: 11382

Job Category: Human Resources

Job Schedule: Full time

Company: Southern Company Services