Lead Talent Advisor

The Motion Recruitment Partners – A Kelly Company Field Talent Services (FTS) department consists of a team of Talent Advisors and Team Leads who specialize in the front end of the recruiting process. They are skilled experts in identifying, engaging, and screening talent within the technology market. The team is dedicated to building robust candidate pipelines and is organized into specialized sourcing teams that partner closely with full-desk recruiters across North America.

Team Leads play a critical role in driving team performance, coaching Talent Advisors, and ensuring a consistent, high-quality flow of pre-qualified candidates to their full-desk partners.

As an FTS Team Lead, you will personally contribute to sourcing production while serving as the resident subject matter expert for your tech segment, mentoring your team on sourcing skills and best practices, and ensuring consistent pipeline output to your full-desk partners. You will not be responsible for account management or new business development.

As a FTS Team Lead, you will…

• Source candidates with relevant skillsets within your aligned tech segment using a variety of channels (e.g. open web, job board databases, Linked In, job posts, ATS archives, professional networks, forums, meetups, and more)
• Execute multi-channel outreach to prospective candidates — including initial contact, follow-up, and re-engagement — via phone, text, voicemail, email, and In Mail
• Phone screen prospective candidates to assess qualifications, interest, and fit; collect ARPO and all relevant candidate information to share with designated full-desk team(s)
• Actively manage team candidate pipeline flow, overseeing ATS hygiene, req assignment, and timely submission of pre-screened candidates to full-desk partners
• Partner effectively with full-desk team(s) to ensure smooth candidate handoffs, maintaining clear communication on candidate status, availability, and pipeline health
• Maintain consistency in personal production, regularly meeting or exceeding KPIs, quality ratios, and impacting team results
• Research, gather, and share market-specific tech/candidate/hiring/industry trends
• Conduct individual reporting & analysis on all self-sourced candidate metrics, ratios, & rates
• Understand, apply & reinforce sourcing strategies and best practices as they pertain to the Sourcing Umbrella’s Identification (search, network, attract) and Engagement (outreach and interaction) approaches
• Recommend and reinforce existing/implement new (approved) sourcing strategies and best practices within technology segment
• Evaluate and optimize team’s sourcing channels strategy, overall job posting strategy (partner w/MES for best practices), and usage of all sourcing systems/platforms/tools
• Coach Talent Advisors on sourcing skills and best practices, advising peers as necessary on areas for improvement in the technical aspects of effective recruiting
• Lead training sessions in 1:1, team, segment, and company-wide settings
• Create and/or optimize company training materials
• Conduct 1:1 wrap-ups and goals meetings with designated Talent Advisors within team (progress review, diagnosis, goal setting)
• Participate in segment and departmental management meetings to evaluate staff production, skills attainment & application, and feedback
• Actively partner with Marketing department for cross-functional strategy ideation, creation and implementation

As an ideal candidate, you will be able to…

• Act in a manner of responsibility and fulfill commitments by keeping agreements, meeting deadlines, and managing expectations, clearly and logically structuring tasks and prioritizing an attention to detail
• Set goals and priorities, thinking ahead and identifying activities and…