Sr Recruiter - FATA, CAN

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

Key Responsibilities:
 
     * Proactively source candidates for the Financial Advisor (FA) role, reviewing candidate qualifications and developing and maintaining area sourcing strategies and business plans to attain firm goals
     * Developing and executing a Business Plan in partnership with the Regional Leaders and Recruiting Leaders.
     * Partnering with Recruiting Leaders to identify and build relationships with local groups and organizations to attract and recruit qualified, diverse, candidates.
     * Delivering FA recruiting messages to audiences such as Regional Leadership teams, Regional branch teams Leaders, and HQ associates to gain support of the firm's growth objective
     * Acquiring advanced knowledge of local competitor firms and communicate to local FAs and regions to assist in retaining our FAs and in recruiting licensed producers from other firms.
     * Building and maintaining relationships with a network of prospects and candidates.
     * Developing and maintaining sourcing strategies and business plans to attain goals while actively sharing sourcing and recruiting strategies with FA and Branch Office Administrators throughout the regions
     * Coordinating with Recruitment Marketing in the development and implementation of marketing materials to attract and engage Industry candidates.
     * Managing, maintaining and prioritizing a candidate pipeline of Industry candidates by following up with all candidate inquiries and closing appropriate files.
     * Working collaboratively with various recruiting teams, internal areas and Financial Advisors throughout the region.
     * Evaluating and maintaining the quality of Industry candidates hired to the firm.
     * Participating in the formulation and extension of employment offers for industry candidates.
     * Coordinating activities and maintaining constant open communication with the other recruiters
     * Backing up Talent Acquisition Manager and other Recruiters in sourcing and selection as necessary
     * Articulating and selling the Edward Jones opportunity in a compelling manner to candidates
     * Some travel within the regions will be required

A minimum of 5 years in recruitment
 
     * University Degree and functional knowledge required
     * Previous sales experience with proven ability to drive for results in a target based environment
     * Candidate must have knowledge of the Financial Services Industry and the overall competitive landscape in recruiting
     * In-depth knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes
     * Strong recruiting and sourcing knowledge including use of social networking sites, cold calling and managing a candidate pipeline within an applicant tracking systems
     * Advanced knowledge of competency-based selection
     * Proven ability to develop and implement new business strategies to support the changing market conditions and future firm growth
     * Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and contact management systems (CMS)
     * Mandarin or Cantonese language skill would be considered an additional asset
     * Advanced internet and social media based recruiting knowledge