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Talent Acquisition Advisor
1 year ago
Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 750 talented people, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.
We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution and Planet Zoo . We are continuing to grow our team to support our existing portfolio and an exciting and ambitious future roadmap, which includes the development of both own-IP titles and licensed-IP titles. Our IP-license partners include Universal (Jurassic World), Formula 1 and Games Workshop (Warhammer).We are also growing our team to continue the expansion of Frontier Foundry, our publishing label for games developed by carefully selected partner studios.
We have a modern spacious studio located on the Cambridge Science Park in the heart of the Cambridge tech hub. For those who wish to relocate to the Cambridge area and work either entirely in the studio or flexibly between the studio and home, we can provide generous financial and practical support to facilitate your move. We are also able to offer remote working for those who would prefer to work almost exclusively from home or who are unable to relocate. We can discuss your preferences with you during the recruitment process.
Purpose of the role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our team. You will work with the Talent Acquisition team to help support and deliver the continued growth of Frontier. In 2021 we grew headcount by over 20% with 2022 on course to be another year of significant growth for Frontier. This is therefore an exciting time to join the Talent Acquisition team at Frontier and have a real impact on our significant scale up programme, enabling the studio to deliver more amazing games.
Key responsibilities
- Work in partnership with a range of business disciplines including Creative Services, Publishing, Commercial, Operations and more, to deliver successful recruitment campaigns from requisition to offer
- Use employee referrals, advertising, talent pipelines, social media, other direct sourcing methods and recruitment agencies to fill vacancies in a timely and cost effective manner
- Take detailed briefs from hiring managers on new vacancies and provide clear briefs to recruitment agencies where appropriate
- Work with and advise hiring managers on the development of effective campaigns including job descriptions, attraction strategies and assessment approaches
- Organise and attend recruitment and industry events to promote Frontier and identify potential candidates
- Deliver Talent Acquisition projects to improve candidate experience and continuously improve our recruitment processes
- Interview with hiring managers when required
- Maintain and develop effective relationships with recruitment agency partners.
About you
- Previous similar recruitment experience in-house or agency, and experienced in managing various vacancies across multiple disciplines
- Knowledge and experience of using a broad range of channels to source talented people
- Passionate about candidate experience and providing an excellent service to internal customers
- Resilience to work in a fast paced environment
- Well organised and able to manage multiple campaigns and competing priorities
- An appreciation of the importance of process whilst remaining outcome focused
- Curious minded with the ability to ask insightful questions
- A positive and solutions focused attitude
- Assertiveness to challenge internal stakeholders and recruitment agencies when required
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills.
What we can offer you
We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.
Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.
We offer a competitive salary and
benefits package, which includes a success-based annual bonus, share option schemes, pension, life assurance, private family healthcare, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house subsidised catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, and social events.
We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
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