Contract Talent Acquisition Specialist, Equinix
Supporting Operations
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- A deep passion for providing an amazing candidate and manager experience
- Passion for building diverse candidate pipelines in innovative ways
- Ability to advocate, educate and influence business leadership to adopt diversity recruitment strategies, processes and philosophy
- Talent Acquisition experience across high volume, skills labor Operations sectors
- Experience in a full-lifecycle recruitment gained within a complex and fast-paced corporate (ideally one of the Big Tech companies), RPO or agency environment
- ATS experience with sourcing, tracking, and candidate management (Extra bonus points for Workday experience)
- Understanding of recruiting compliance in Canada and the US, data privacy, and the importance of data accuracy
- Strong communication skills, excellent relationship-building skills, and eagerness to succeed
- You will thrive in working with business leaders and should be comfortable taking insight into the business, and challenging to status quo
- Ability to support roles in Canada and the US across all time zones
- French/English language skills are strongly preferred
What the job involves
- As a Talent Advisor supporting Equinix's Operations organization you will find, nurture, and hire the talent that operates Equinix’s world-class data centers and interconnection platform equating to the frontline of the Equinix customer experience
- This is a contract opportunity, supporting skilled labor roles in Canada and the US
- Be a Talent Advisor: Partner with hiring teams to develop and drive effective sourcing, assessment, and closing strategies with an ability to manage expectations and influence hiring decisions based on recruiting expertise and shared business goals. Demonstrate strong business acumen, leverage the business strategy to attract talent and ensure high review-to-interview ratios
- Be a Networker: Build and maintain a network of candidates and prospects through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management; understand how to recruit passive candidates and engage for current and future opportunities
- Be a Market Expert: Demonstrate excellent knowledge of the tech talent market, work on market mapping and analysis together with the Data and Analytics team to enhance predictive recruiting; support hiring managers outside of Europe to understand the dynamics of the European talent market and recruiting practices; support development of short, mid and long-term strategies to overcome talent shortages
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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