Start Date: April/May 2025.
The Talent Acquisition Graduate Program is a 21 month rotation program in Amazon’s EMEA Stores Talent Acquisition Team. In this program, you will learn all aspects of talent acquisition and recruiting with Amazon, as a Candidate Partner, Business Partner and Full Lifecycle recruiter within the team. The Program provides hands-on learning, mentorship, and the chance to apply classroom knowledge in a real-world setting.
Key job responsibilities
As a Candidate Partner, for 6 months you will:
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management
• conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment of talent that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning current processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
As a Business Partner, for 6 months you will:
• Serve as the primary point of contact between the talent acquisition team and the operations team.
• Facilitate regular communication, collaboration, and alignment between the two teams.
• Understand the strategic priorities and challenges of both teams and translate them to ensure effective coordination.
• Collect, analyse, and interpret recruitment and operations data to identify trends, highlight successes, and uncover areas for improvement.
• • Generate regular reports and dashboards to provide visibility into key performance metrics and inform decision-making.
As a Full Lifecycle Recruiter, for 6 months you will:
• Manage the full recruiting process from sourcing and screening to interviewing, offer negotiations, and on-boarding for assigned roles and teams, ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.
• Leverage various sourcing strategies, including job boards, social media, networking, and proactive outreach, to identify and engage a diverse pool of qualified candidates.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand position requirements, culture fit, and team dynamics, and provide strategic guidance on optimal candidate profiles and interview processes.
• Analyze recruiting metrics, identify trends and bottlenecks, and implement data-driven process improvements to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting function.
At the end of the program, there will be an opportunity to convert into a full time position.
- Bachelor or Master Degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Management, Economics or a similar field.
- Communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills, with a keen focus on delivering business results
- Business Fluency (C1+) in English and German, French or Italian.
- Fluency in further languages is welcome (e.g. German, French or Italian)
- Previous working experience is not required for this role
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