Wanted: A Creatively Disciplined Curator of Technical Talent

(also known as a Talent Acquisition Specialist)

EMBARK ON YOUR JOURNEY

We invite you to join Entara and further your career journey with us as our Talent Acquisition Specialist. The heart of any company is its people and here at Entara—we take the art of finding and cultivating our people with extreme care. To be top-tier in our delivery, we best enable our employees by being a world-class employer. This type of culture wasn't built overnight and it takes considerable tending, especially when we come into seasons where we're busy as bees and need to support the team with equally awesome teammates.

This is where our Talent Acquisition Specialist comes into play. We are in the market to secure exceptional employees at every level of our organization—from entry level to leadership. Hiring at Entara is not about "filling a seat". We hire for value fits over just skills and have a different approach towards aligning candidates to opportunities. We are looking for a creative and disciplined professional broadcaster of our culture who understands the value of first impressions and the empathetic art of cultivating trust-centered relationships that result in long-lasting career opportunities.

Our ideal Talent Acquisition Specialist will have some seasoned exposure to attracting, vetting, and building relationships with technically-minded talent. We're looking for an enterprising, resourceful team-player who wants to work alongside our Talent Director and TA Coordinator to scale our Talent operations in preparation for the next frontier. Our TA Specialist bleeds empathy, nails deliverables, and prioritizes experience. In other words—a curator of exceptional teammates for the Starship Talent Enterprise. Does this sound like you?

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

(Otherwise known as the fine print, the list of job tasks and responsibilities.)

The Talent Acquisition Specialist (TAS) will own various facets of the recruiting process, working alongside our Talent Director (TD) to attract and convert interested prospects into new hires. The TAS will work closely with our TA Coordinator whilst cultivating their own mix of assigned role requisitions and conducting full- cycle recruitment spanning our Practice areas. Role openings may range from seasonal internships, establishing independent contractor relationships, and hiring full-time and part-time positions. The TAS will be a team player and will be additionally responsible for a mix of recruitment process management, job description cultivation, sourcing, and coordination efforts to optimize the efficiency of our "small but mighty" Talent Team. This position will report directly to the Talent Director and will work closely with Entara's Hiring Managers to cultivate mutual success for Entara and the candidates who enter our pipelines.

Cultivate Relationships

Conduct Full-Cycle Recruitment for Assigned Requisitions:

• Perform Ideation meeting(s) with TD to launch job description development, identify role competencies, capture required vetting steps, and confirm available resources.
• Project manage your requisitions: provide insight and recommendations to Hiring Managers and TD on candidate(s), talent pool, and vetting Set timelines and complete/assign action items resulting in on-target, time to hire and time to fill for your requisitions.
• Cultivate Talent Pipelines: Review Conduct sourcing. Leverage prospects.
• Select and interview candidates who meet both Entara values and required
• Gather and grade applicable assessments against Entara baseline, escalating to TD as
• Assume personal ownership of all next steps, follow-ups, and update calls in relation to your candidates. Work with TAC to schedule all necessary interviews.
• Utilize developed messaging and rejection or advancement guidelines to ensure compliance measures are followed consistently for each candidate.
• Coordinate and compose offers for review and extension with TD and the Director of
• Transition closed candidate relationships to TD, HR, and Hiring Manger for new hire

Manage the Candidate Experience:

• Proactively communicate in a way that enhances the candidate's experience; ensure each candidate walks away feeling valued and informed.
• Identify process gaps or inefficiencies that may require resolution or refinement, keeping the candidate experience top of mind.

Establish Foundations for Future Hiring:

• Take the lead on requisition closure activities: offboard candidate(s), create and file
• Identify opportunities to steam-line future hiring efforts through the cultivation of strong prospective candidate pools.
• Complete assigned projects to take Entara's TA strategies to the next level through diverse hiring alignment, process refinement, and scorecard maturation.

Facilitate Attraction Efforts

Source:

• Work with TAC to meet weekly targets and execute various outreach methods for passive candidate engagement (in-mails, emails, and calls).
• Compose and fine-tune outreach sequences to mature passive talent
• Conduct day-to-day management of prospect pools and related engagement
• Leverage preferred tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, and Greenhouse

Cascade Messaging:

• Provide guidance for online posting efforts across Entara's careers page and job board platforms. Ensure posts maintain consistency in messaging and branding.
• Research and propose additional posting platforms, LinkedIn groups, that Entara should be leveraging as our needs expand.
• Cascade openings internally to garner referral generation and internal awareness of open

Attend Events:

• Provide preparatory & day-of assistance for candidate job fairs attended by the TA Attend as a company representative. *Note: Recent fair attendance has been primarily remote, though we may expand back into onsite fairs in Fall 2023 (May require travel).*
• Research additional collegiate programs that may contribute to upcoming or growing talent

Enhance Company Brand:

• Maintain a pulse on the viability of current employer branding
• Research brand engagement tactics and propose adjustments or additions to virtual brand presence to support strategic hiring initiatives and talent engagement.

Contribute to Team Excellence

• Own Your Metrics: Maintain an accurate awareness of your activity metrics, weekly objectives, and performance data to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Pull required data, reports, and metrics for review on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly
  • Highlight variances and assist in the creative "solve" for process gaps or hard-to-fill

• Leverage Your Tools: Understand the utilization and necessity of each of our TA Maintain continual upkeep and data integrity – ensuring accurate reporting of TA activity and trends.
  • Maintain detailed, complete records in Greenhouse; ensure accurate data is uploaded and available for candidates and prospects (assessments, applications, feedback, notes, etc.).
  • Execute assigned tasks related to new position setup in Greenhouse, including scorecard development, application questions, interview stages, etc.
  • Organize prospect projects across sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem); ensure follow- up activities are tracked and logged in respective tools.

WHO YOU ARE: REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• You're a knowledge seeker. Regardless of method, you have obtained and exposed yourself to knowledge centers that qualify you to take on a detailed, process-heavy workload. You ideally have a four-year degree in a field that's business-oriented—such as Marketing, Human Resources, or When you've set out to accomplish an objective, your Anne with an e determination resulted in accolades- reflective of your level of work.

• You have at least three years of experience in a role that required you to proactively source and cultivate candidate relationships as a Our ideal candidate will have worked both as an in-house recruiter and within agency recruiting teams.

• You will have significant former experience attracting elusive technical talent namely in the areas of operational IT (help desk, systems, networks, cloud) and/or cyber You understand the language of engineers and are experienced in the nuances of technical skill levels and role types.

• You are a master of the pen (or keyboard, as it were). Communicating clearly, effectively, and persuasively is an ability you are proud of. You wield words with poise and specificity, adapting to a variety of different audiences as needed. You consider your professional communication—and writing, in particular—to be impeccable, effective, and appropriately tailored for the You are also very confident demonstrating your superb communication skills throughout the interviewing process.

• You are accomplished with the tools and applications used by recruitment Greenhouse ATS, LinkedIn | LinkedIn Recruiter, collegiate job platforms (Simplicity, Handshake, etc.) & Gem (sourcing) are our preferred tools. You also have a knack for learning new software without much formal training; technology in its various forms is something you "get" and understand how to use to your advantage.

• You're an organizational mastermind, pulling off a delicate juggling act of multiple candidates in multiple phases while making it all look effortless and never compromising on your attention to You can push through a large volume of activity every day and yet still recall on a dime which universities your five active candidates named Michael recently graduated from.

• You maintain an acute awareness and composure relative to the personal or confidential information that you may come across in your You pride yourself on being someone others can trust to handle sensitive information in a professional manner and with the utmost care.

• You have a dedicated, private space for a home office and already have in place a reliable, private internet connection with at least 50MBPS bandwidth. Public Wi-Fi and shared common spaces do not meet these standards. Entara will supply you with the other necessary tools and hardware to complete your tasks remotely.

• You have an approach to working hours that is more adaptable than the traditional "9-to-5". You're career driven and motivated to put in the time and effort to get the job done right, and you take immense pride in your personal follow-through. At times this may require you to work late or start early to be the best quarterback for our At the same time, you can grasp what to prioritize, when to call it a day, and how best to build in some breaks for personal wellness.

• You're available for a standard working schedule from Monday-Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm CT and are open and flexible to accommodate the additional needs of the team that may require after-hours support on

WHO YOU ARE: PERSONALITY-WISE

• Eyes on the prize. "Tenacious" and "persistent" are descriptors that friends and family frequently assign to Once a goal is outlined, you'll cross as many mountains and valleys as necessary to attain it. During the journey, you are not derailed by changes in weather—like shifting hiring priorities or elusive candidate pools.

• Leave no stone You are always thinking of new ways to meet attraction challenges because you know that finding the right candidate is not as easy as point, click, post. You understand—and make every use of—those tried-and-true tactics, but you don't build up dependencies on just one or two resources. When it comes to your job, you're not content to just take inherited tools and let history repeat itself. You want to add value and expand horizons to constantly help the team's efforts become more and more effective.

• Accountable & Self-Driven. When you screw up, the person who is most disappointed is always you. You take great pride in the quality of your work and the way in which you deliver it. "Very good" may do for most people, but you're out for excellence. You often find that the standards you set for yourself are even higher than what others expect of you, and you learn from your mistakes.

• A Confidant. If you give your word, you keep it. You quickly build trust-centered relationships, based on your reliability, follow through, and perceptive You are informative without oversharing, reading a conversation to know when it's time to transition while having a constant eye for confidentiality and professionalism.

• A Ray of Sunshine. People are drawn to you because they find you disarming and You are a natural at breaking the ice and chatting to build familiarity. Your energetic demeanor comes through and adds to the positive impressions that you are so carefully managing. But your words are not all hot air—you speak from a place of authenticity and passion. Your sincerity helps you build trust with candidates, and you prefer to elevate relationships to a level of honest dialogue.

• A Combo Meal. Your style is winningly ambidextrous. While you are known to be creative, social, and improvisational, you also insist on being extremely organized and highly If Dance Dance Revolution and Microsoft Excel had a love child, it would be you.

• A Collaborative Teammate. You enjoy building into others and pride yourself on being a reliable teammate. You seek to maintain close team alignment and as such offer up suggestions for better collaboration and accept critique as we all continue to hone our crafts together.

WHO WE ARE

Founded in 2001, Entara, formerly YJT Solutions, is an eXtended Service Provider (XSP) focused on providing cutting edge technology and cyber security solutions to companies in regulated industries. With our roots in providing service to the electronic trading market, we are known for growing with the pace of technological change and the developing security needs of our clients. We are redefining ourselves - and our industry - and creating a new class of service providers, XSPs, because we recognize that MSPs and MSSPs are no longer what our clients need. Downward pressure from both regulators and insurance providers convinced us that it was time to integrate our IT and cyber security offerings and deliver strategic, future facing solutions for our clients.

In order to build, maintain, and optimize these types of solutions, we need high-performing, highly- collaborative teammates who are excited to join in this journey with us. We've been recognized as one of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For since 2017. We are a remote-first workplace. We seek to build a team that's brought together by more than just skills but who embrace a personal-alignment to the values that precede the work we deliver: Empathy, Excellence, Execution, & Evolution. If this sounds like you, connect with us. Let's discover if we have the opportunity to build something great together.

WHAT YOU GET IN RETURN

As an employee at Entara, you will have a direct impact on our operations, our clients, and your fellow EntaraCorps members. Because of that impact, you get our respect and gratitude for the role you play in making Entara the best it can be. We consider mentoring and participating in the continual learning of others to be absolutely essential for both you and your co-workers.

To reflect our commitment to our employees, we offer unlimited PTO, remote-first work, 401k matching, paid parental leave, employee outings (virtual and in person), reimbursement for approved seminars, conferences, and certifications, and 100% employee premium coverage for medical, dental, life, and disability insurance….and that's just the tip of the iceberg.