Talent Acquisition Specialist

About us

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

AtDayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that.

We'rea friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. Ifyou’reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, thenlet’stalk.

We’vegot lots of recruitment planned for this year, building on several years’ growth andwe’relooking for someone to help us find and attract the right people for Dayshapeto achieve its ambition.

We’relooking for somebody who’sgreat at building connections – both to attract candidates to Dayshapeand to help make sure our hiring managers are engaged and getting the most out of hiring for their teams.

The person in this role willbe responsible for:

• Ensuring we’rebringing in the right people at the right time
• Ensuring all candidates have an excellent experience
• Conducting searches through channels like Linked In Recruiter to find the best candidates for our vacancies (including passive candidates)
• Identifying and delivering on opportunities to improve diversity of candidates and inclusivity of the recruitment process
• Supporting hiring managers withourin-house recruitment cycle, including advice, training, and recruitment admin
• CV and phone screening candidates
• Providing feedback andidentifyingimprovement opportunitiesforourrecruitment processes and communications
• Managing relationships with external recruiters
• Monitoring, and improving recruitment KPIs
• Managing candidate offers and references
• Monitoring andmaintainingof the ATS

• Experience in in-house recruitment across the full hiring cycle
• Knowledge of recruiting passive candidates
  -identifying and engaging with top talent
• Experience using an ATS (we currently use Workable)
• Strong knowledge of Boolean, x-ray search
• Knowledge of sourcing tools
• Strong screening and/or interviewing skills
• Knowledgeable about recruitment-related compliance (e.g. right to work, Equality Act)
• A bias for action, with demonstrable experience proactively taking initiative to improve systems and processes
• Adaptable and able to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with owning the whole recruitment process, moving between administrative and strategic tasks as required
• Highly organised and detail-oriented (you almost never miss something!)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A strong relationship-builder, able to work collaboratively across departments, building trust and influence at all levels of the business
• Sound judgement - making assertive decisions about sensitive matters with compassion and discretion

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in a scaleup (or similar) environment
• Experience recruiting within a software company
• Experience in talent search for technical roles (e.g. software engineers)
• Familiarity with Workable specifically
• Experience managing relationships with external recruiters

• Salary £30,000 - £35,000, dependent on experience
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
• Paidfour week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a yeartoparticipatein volunteer work
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, boardgamesand at-home…