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We know that it’s important that you can count on us and what we deliver, so we use the latest industry-leading cloud technologies and platforms for everything we do. Naturally, our team is fully trained and certified.
Adaptiv is the leader in middleware integration consulting and development, and data and analytics services. We have a wealth of development and integration experience moving clients from around the world onto cloud platforms. Integration: We deliver clear and measurable value to our client’s bottom lines with over a decade of experience delivering small and large-scale integration for the enterprise market. Data and analytics (DnA): Our DnA practice helps clients leverage their real-time or historical data, regardless of location or format to gain a formidable strategic advantage. Adaptiv employ the best of the best in the industry, providing complex solutions for some impressive clients. Our strong learning culture supports our team to gain and maintain skills to become integration and data experts, and with an excellent company culture and no office politics we know when to switch off and have fun!
Position Summary
The Talent Acquisition Specialist works alongside the HR team with a specific focus on recruitment and providing HR support as and when needed. This is achieved through providing superior delivery and timely recruitment service that supports all levels of the business and the achievement of the company’s business objectives. The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for recruitment and making continuous improvement in the delivery of recruitment. The successful individual will enjoy managing end-to-end recruitment, building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Bringing structure, energy, and sourcing expertise, that ensures a high-quality candidate experience, helping us maintain our high hiring standards. This role also requires the successful individual to provide an excellent people service, and demonstrating the ability to remain resilient, optimistic and positive when faced with pressure and change as well as to be supportive of any change.
Significant Working Relationships
Internal
All staff and managers across the companies – Adaptiv, C3 Post Trade, and ICM.
Finance Team.
Infrastructure Team.
Project Management Office.
External
BambooHR
Recruitment and Consulting service providers
Job candidates
Position Responsibilities
Recruitment and Onboarding
Manage end-to-end recruitment processes including but not limited to creation of position descriptions, advertising, candidate screening, organising interviews, coordinating testing, organising candidate documentation for managers, reference checking, coordinating the offer process, across multiple roles both technical and non-technical.
Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and shape effective hiring strategies.
Write and post compelling job advertisements across relevant platforms.
Actively source candidates via LinkedIn and other channels to build talent pipelines.
Screen resumes and conduct phone/video interviews to assess candidate suitability.
Coordinate interviews and ensure timely communication and feedback between candidates and interviewers.
Maintain accurate records and reporting via our applicant tracking system.
Contribute to employer branding initiatives and recruitment marketing as needed.
Creates and maintains accurate filing procedures for recruitment and onboarding processes.
Manages a seamless and professional candidate recruitment experience through timely communication and updates.
Assists in the preparation of offers of employment and assists with the onboarding process to facilitate preparation of all new starter documentation and system set-up.
Assists with HR-related onboarding activities and follow up with any new hires regarding onboarding tasks.
Provide a first point of contact for new starters to answer initial questions, ensuring effective employee care and a great start into the organisation.
Engage the services of recruitment agencies and manage delivery on nominated jobs.
Graduate Recruitment
Support the delivery of our graduate recruitment programme, including, reviewing the current programme and working with key contacts to redefine the graduate programme.
Building relationships with universities, student networks, and Summer of Tech.
Coordinating and organising careers fairs, events, and application campaigns such as Summer of Tech.
Managing application tracking, interviews, and communication with graduate candidates.
Contributing to onboarding and early engagement activities to create a strong graduate experience.
Process Improvement & Documentation
Review and assess current recruitment practices, templates, and communication workflows.
Update and standardise recruitment documentation including but not limited to interview guides, process checklists, templates, and candidate communication.
Identify opportunities for improvement and recommend best practice changes to improve efficiency, consistency, and experience for all stakeholders.
Support the development of a scalable recruitment toolkit that can grow with the business.
Identifies and proposes opportunities for continuous improvement to HR recruitment systems and processes.
Contributes to the realisation of the department’s goals by facilitating supportive, timely and value-added solutions for the business
Policy and Procedures
Maintenance of HR related wiki pages specifically with respect to recruitment administration and processes, keeping pages up to date with current information.
Ensure excellent familiarity with recruitment policies and procedures, interpreting them in response to questions from employees and managers or directing queries to the appropriate HR team member as necessary.
Proposes improvements to recruitment policies and procedures to ensure they are correct, current, easy to follow and supportive of the business objectives.
HR Support
Provides HR support to the HR team as and when required, including assistance with managing processes, HR administration, and any projects.
Communication and Reporting
Communicates openly with the HR team to share experiences and improve knowledge of all team members.
Provide timely, accurate advice and assistance to employees regarding recruitment queries and processes.
Assist the HR team to communicate updates and new information to the business.
Work Planning and Management
Manage daily tasks and projects to ensure work is completed consistent with agreed priorities and deadlines.
Participate in planning meetings as required.
Attend meetings with team and stakeholders to give timely updates on work progress.
Occupational Health and Safety
Responsible for taking reasonable care to ensure own safety and health at work, and to avoid adversely affecting the safety or health of any other person at work.
Responsibilities on Demand
Due to the fluid and dynamic environment within the group, new, additional, or amended position responsibilities may be required at any time.
Successful demonstration of change orientation is an ongoing responsibility of all positions.
Key Result Areas
Timely and effective delivery of hires aligned to business requirements.
High candidate and hiring manager satisfaction.
Quality and consistency of recruitment documentation and process management.
Ensure all actions directly support the company objectives, values, polices and processes.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Certifications
A relevant tertiary qualification or certification
Experience and Skills
Proven experience in a fast-paced internal recruitment or agency setting (ideally within tech, consulting, or professional services).
Excellent sourcing skills using platforms like Seek, LinkedIn Recruiter and proactive search strategies.
Ability to manage multiple roles with competing deadlines and priorities. Strong planning and organising skills
Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Aptitude for dealing with people.
Clear and engaging written and verbal communication.
Organised, with great attention to detail and follow-through.
Strong knowledge in MS Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
Desirable
Familiarity with recruiting technical roles such as developers, consultants, data engineers
Experience using applicant tracking systems
Headhunting experience
Understanding of or interest in integration and data technologies.
Personal Competencies and Attributes
Self-motivated and highly proactive – committed to putting all into the job every day and making things happen with a fast pace.
Quality focus – strong attention to detail.
An optimistic and positive attitude.
High resilience
Teamwork – reliable, cooperative, and collaborative.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
A great listener with strong interpersonal skills.
Friendly and charismatic personality with a great sense of humour.
Confidentiality – Handles sensitive information with discretion, and demonstrates utmost integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, and confidentiality in all areas of work.
Strong emotional intelligence, with innate sound judgement.
A flexible team player – being able to relate to all levels within the organisation.
We have frequent staff events both in and outside the office from Friday morning teas, BBQs, quiz nights, mini golf…the list goes on!
Personal Development
Under the mentorship of our skilled leaders, we will grow you into being the best you can be.
New Grey Lynn Office
We have recently located to a beautiful and modern new office that overlooks Grey Lynn, mere minutes away from Ponsonby.
Thrive Wellbeing Calendar
We support the wellbeing of our staff through our annual ‘Thrive’ programme which focuses on nutrition, health, movement, stress, and financial wellbeing.
Latest Technology
We pride ourselves on the latest in innovative technology which means that you are always equipped with the latest gadgets.
Targeted Bonuses
Adaptiv has both goals based and profit based bonus schemes aimed at inspiring growth and individual career development and ensuring that when we do well, our people do well!