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Are you inspired by the prospect of driving talent attraction and acquisition activities across our four European offices? Do you want to help us ensure the best possible onboarding experience for our new colleagues?

We are looking for a talent acquisition specialist to support our ambitious strategy by delivering on employer branding, recruitment, and onboarding activities.

WHO ARE WE?

Copenhagen Economics is an international economics consultancy, comprised of a diverse mix of highly skilled economists working together to deliver hard facts as clear stories. Trusted around the world for our unsurpassed technical abilities, we thrive on complex cases, offering unbiased, reliable analyses valued the world over for their insight and thoroughness. We prioritise service and strive to cultivate a deep understanding of our client’s needs from the very first meeting. To meet our obligations, we now employ 100 employees working across our offices in Brussels, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm.

The Business Support Team (BST), of which you will be a part, comprises approximately 20 people working with the People Team, communications, finance and office management departments. Tasked with delivering high-quality strategic support across the company, the BST is spread out across our four locations and collaborates actively to maximise our resources and find more streamlined ways of working.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

As our Talent Attraction Specialist, you will get the opportunity to have a direct impact on our recruitment and onboarding agenda. Your role is to ensure we attract the best of the best in our industry and across our services. Doing this, you will drive efficient recruitment and onboarding processes in close collaboration with the rest of your People Team colleagues.

Being part of Copenhagen Economics means being part of a dynamic and international team.  To help us to be a leading light in the field of economics, we pride ourselves in providing a professional working environment with an atmosphere of cooperative good humour. We have an informal tone and put great emphasis on having a challenging and rewarding working day. As Talent Attraction Specialist, you will have an opportunity to influence this climate and make your mark to ensure we have the right working atmosphere in place to help our people and their skills to grow.

While most of our People Team is located in Copenhagen, you may be based at any one of our four office locations.

Your tasks include:

• Overseeing the beginning-to-end recruitment process from attraction to final hire, including:
  • Coordinating recruitment needs with business unit heads;
  • Sourcing;
  • Training and advising hiring managers on how to master interview techniques and optimise the selection process;
  • Running interviews together with the hiring managers;
  • Testing;
  • Negotiating with candidates

• Further developing our approach to onboarding and optimising processes to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new colleagues in collaboration with our People Operations Manager and People Coordinator.

• Further developing and executing our employer branding activities in collaboration with our Communications Team and the business to ensure we are known in the right places across Europe.

• Collaborating with our People Operations Manager on our mobility strategy and associated processes to ensure these are aligned with our international ambitions.

• Contributing to other People Team projects, depending on your background and interests.

YOUR EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES

You should have a key interest in recruitment and people. You approach every conversation and interview with a high level of dynamism and interest in the individual. You draw energy from creating efficient processes. You are a true team player and will support the development and implementation of other People Team projects separate from your own responsibilities. You are open-minded, curious by nature and keen to understand the different cultures of our international organisation. You are approachable, and collaborative and have the conviction to state your own opinion while being able to accept different points of view.

To be successful in the role, we believe that you need to have:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in a professional capacity within recruitment, preferably from working in professional service firms, consulting companies or similar, where you have fulfilled specialist roles.

• Experience with miscellaneous interview techniques (phone, video and in-person), candidate screening and evaluation. Ideally, you also have experience with the LinkedIn recruiter tool.

• A relevant academic background within, for example, HRM (master’s degree preferred).

• Strong interpersonal skills, including an ability to challenge assumptions and decisions to drive the right discussions.

• Experience with employer branding, preferably including social media and professional networks.

• Some experience with onboarding and creating smooth processes for new joiners.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

• An insight into diversity and bias in recruitment or an interest in learning about these areas.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your application, including your CV, a cover letter, academic transcripts, and other relevant material, no later than 3 February 2023. In your motivational letter, please elaborate on why you would like to work with us and why you believe you would be a good fit for the role and our team (max 500 words). As a company we are committed to responding to all applicants, no matter the result, and successful candidates will be informed and invited for interviews after the deadline.

If you have questions, you are welcome to contact Head of People, Stine Fechtenburg via email at sfp@copenhageneconomics.com. We look forward to receiving your application.