Technical Recruiter at Blakskill Limited

Blakskill helps companies hire African talent with verified backgrounds, advanced skills, and the expertise to drive your company’s growth. Blakskill Limited is a talent tech solutions firm.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Recruiter

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Industry: Technology (Software Solutions)
Job Type: Contract (3-6 Months)

Job Description (Summary)

• As a Technical Recruiter, you will be responsible for sourcing and screening candidates for majorly technical roles, sales roles and other non-technical roles creating a shortlist of qualified individuals, and engaging with potential candidates to enhance our employer brand.
• Your focus will be on reducing our time-to-hire and ensuring we attract top talents. 
• By building a robust tech talent pipeline, you will contribute to the successful recruitment and retention of highly skilled professionals for all our departments.

Responsibilties

• Write and post technical job descriptions providing copies to the hiring managers and making revisions based on their feedback
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms, like LinkedIn, Github and networking communities
• Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen resumes
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Coordinate with Directors to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Promote company’s reputation as a great place to work
• Conduct job and task analyses to document job duties and requirements
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products
• Arranging phone, in-person and video conferences for meetings with potential technical professionals
• Performing various background checks on professionals before advancing them to the next interview level
• Completing reference checks with the information the professional provided you to ensure it is valid
• Offering promising technical professionals the role and filling out the required paperwork for the company
• Maintaining an organisation system to keep track of candidates' interview processes and provide useful communication with professionals about their application process
• Staying within company recruitment budgets when hiring technical professionals.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Human Resource, Information Technology, Engineering or other relevant fields
• Three or more years of experience in technical recruiting for an agency
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Strong understanding of the technology field and the technical skills required for the field
• Reliable and swift decision-making skills
• Basic understanding of computer software, such as word processors and applicant tracking software (ATS)
• Experience using LinkedIn Talent Solutions to source quality candidates
• Tenacity, resourcefulness, and strong ability to build a solid network
• Proven success in recruiting for the technology sector.

Salary
N250,000 - N350,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date
2nd May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their resumes to: o.ayoade@blakskill.com using "Technical Recruiter" as the subject of the mail.