Your OpportunityWe are actively seeking a Bilingual Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to play a key role in supporting the continued growth of our Tax service line.
In this role, you will manage recruitment across a portfolio of specialized and professional roles, partnering closely with business leaders to understand their business, anticipate talent needs and develop effective sourcing and recruitment strategies.
As a trusted talent advisor, you will bring strong recruitment expertise, market intelligence and a proactive approach to sourcing, while delivering an exceptional experience for candidates and hiring leaders. This role offers flexibility to work from any of our offices across Canada.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Own the end-to-end recruitment process for a portfolio of roles within Tax, from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer and close, while delivering a strong candidate and hiring leader experience
- Partner closely with Tax leaders and hiring managers to understand their practices, growth priorities and current and emerging talent needs, translating those needs into effective recruitment strategies
- Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify and engage high-calibre talent, particularly for specialized and difficult-to-fill roles, using LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, referrals, talent communities and other sourcing channels
- Bring talent market intelligence to hiring decisions, using recruitment data, competitive insights, market trends and candidate feedback to advise leaders on talent availability, role requirements and sourcing strategies
- Build trusted relationships with hiring leaders by providing thoughtful recruitment advice, setting clear expectations and constructively challenging assumptions where appropriate to achieve strong hiring outcomes
- Build and maintain external talent pipelines and networks, developing relationships with prospective candidates, industry professionals, professional associations and talent communities to support current and future hiring needs
- Act as a brand ambassador for the firm, effectively communicating our employee value proposition, culture and career opportunities to prospective talent
- Continuously improve how we recruit, identifying opportunities to enhance recruitment processes, sourcing approaches and the candidate and hiring leader experience
- Leverage recruitment technology and emerging tools to work more effectively, including applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, analytics and AI-enabled technology
- Demonstrate strong business acumen by understanding the firm's growth priorities and translating them into practical talent acquisition strategies
How do we define success for your role?
- You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration
- You understand your client's industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high quality work
- You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients
- You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talent
- You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace
- You grow your expertise through learning and professional development.
Your experience and education
- You have 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, ideally within professional services or another environment involving specialized and competitive talent markets
- You have demonstrated experience managing full-cycle recruitment across multiple roles and stakeholder groups, with the ability to independently manage a complex recruitment portfolio
- You have a strong track record of proactively sourcing and engaging passive candidates, including experience recruiting specialized and difficult-to-fill talent
- You are comfortable advising and influencing senior stakeholders and can use market intelligence, recruitment data and your own expertise to guide hiring decisions
- You bring strong business acumen and are naturally curious about the businesses and teams you support, allowing you to understand their talent needs beyond an individual requisition
- You bring advanced analytical and problem-solving skills and are comfortable using data and market insights to inform recruitment strategies
- You have strong relationship-building, collaboration and communication skills, allowing you to build credibility with candidates, hiring managers and senior leaders across the firm
- You are highly organized and comfortable managing competing priorities and multiple recruitment processes in a fast-paced environment
- You are comfortable working across modern recruitment technology, including applicant tracking systems such as Workday, sourcing platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot
- You are curious about emerging recruitment technology and are comfortable experimenting with new tools, sourcing methods and ways of working to improve recruitment outcomes
- Due to the frequent and complex contact with our English-speaking partners and clients in Quebec and outside of Quebec, and the need to draft documents in English, knowledge of English is essential for this position.
The expected base salary range for this role is $74,000-$112,000 annually, based on skills, experience, location, and qualifications.
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