Recruiter, Early-in-Profession

Job description

**Overview** The Early-in-Profession (EIP) recruiting team provides opportunities where you can shape your career with purpose, where early talent is empowered through structured frameworks, inclusive hiring, and global exposure to high-impact roles. Our recruiting team thrives in driving innovation in AI, engineering, and programme delivery, while cultivating talent through proactive sourcing and continuous learning. Do you enjoy solving hiring challenges, partnering closely with business leaders, and connecting great talent with opportunities where they can make an impact? Come join Microsoft’s Global Talent Acquisition team as a **Recruiter supporting Microsoft Commercial Business (MCB) & Microsoft Frontier Company.** In this role, you will partner with hiring managers and recruiting colleagues to understand business priorities, develop effective hiring strategies, and attract talent for one of Microsoft’s key customer-facing businesses. You will combine recruiting expertise, talent-market insights, data, and strong candidate engagement to deliver hiring outcomes and an exceptional experience for candidates and hiring teams. You may be a fit for this role if you: - Thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve and agility matters. - Enjoy building trusted relationships with hiring managers and translating business needs into recruiting strategies. - Are curious about talent markets and use data and insights to inform your approach. - Enjoy identifying and engaging talent in competitive markets. - Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and disciplined follow-through. - Care deeply about candidate experience and representing Microsoft authentically in the talent market. - Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, collaborating across teams, and continuously improving how work gets done. - Are excited about using new technologies, including AI, to improve recruiting effectiveness. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. **Responsibilities** **Stakeholder Engagement & Hiring Strategy** - Lead recruiting strategy and kickoff discussions with hiring managers to understand role requirements, business priorities, candidate profiles, and hiring timelines. - Partner with MCB stakeholders to translate hiring demand into effective recruiting and talent strategies. - Manage multiple hiring priorities while setting clear expectations and proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities. - Conduct regular pipeline and hiring reviews with stakeholders and recommend actions based on recruiting progress and talent-market conditions. - Consult with hiring managers and interview teams to support skills-based and inclusive hiring practices. **Talent Market Insights & Hiring Plans** - Leverage market research, recruiting data, and talent insights to understand talent availability and inform hiring strategies. - Identify opportunities to broaden talent pools and recommend sourcing approaches based on business needs. - Analyze recruiting and assessment outcomes to identify opportunities to improve hiring effectiveness. - Monitor progress against agreed recruiting goals and use data to enable informed conversations with hiring teams. **Talent Attraction & Sourcing** - Develop sourcing strategies to identify and engage qualified talent for current and future MCB & Frontier Co hiring needs. - Build and nurture talent pipelines using relevant sourcing channels, professional communities, referrals, internal talent pools, and other approaches. - Engage prospective candidates with compelling stories about Microsoft, MCB & Frontier Co, the opportunity, and potential career impact. - Adapt sourcing strategies based on talent-market conditions and pipeline health. **Candidate Assessment & Experience** - Assess candidates against role requirements using skills-based evaluation, behavioral interviewing, and established assessment approaches. - Understand candidate motivations, interests, and career aspirations to create meaningful engagement throughout the hiring process. - Provide a differentiated candidate experience by anticipating candidate needs, proactively addressing concerns, and maintaining timely engagement. - Partner with hiring teams to review candidate assessment outcomes and provide recommendations based on role requirements. - Use appropriate negotiation techniques and knowledge of candidate motivators to support successful hiring outcomes. **Recruiting Excellence** - Coordinate effectively across hiring teams and Global Talent Acquisition partner teams to progress candidates through the hiring process. - Maintain accurate and timely recruiting data to enable reliable reporting, compliance, and decision-making. - Follow established recruiting processes and applicable standards throughout the hiring lifecycle. - Participate in recruiting programs, projects, and change initiatives that improve the effectiveness of Talent Acquisition. - Explore and responsibly adopt AI-enabled recruiting solutions and share practices that improve team workflows and decision-making. - Demonstrate a growth mindset by actively seeking feedback, developing recruiting and business expertise, and sharing knowledge with colleagues. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's Degree AND well experienced in talent acquisition (e.g recruiting, sourcing, campus hiring) OR equivalent experience. - Strong critical thinking, judgment capability and communications skills, with the ability to engage and consult in strategic hiring discussions. - Proficient with a data-driven approach to recruiting, using talent insights, market intelligence, hiring data and competitor analysis to drive impactful hiring outcomes. **Preferred Qualifications** - 5+ years of full-cycle experience in supporting sales roles, customer-facing, go-to-market, technical, or related business functions. - Experience in university recruiting or volume hiring for early-in-career talents is a big plus. - Experience managing multiple hiring priorities and partnering effectively with stakeholders in a matrixed environment. - Strong learning agility and aptitude in navigating ambiguity, collaborating across teams, and continuously improving how work gets done. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. --- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about [**requesting accommodations.**](https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)