Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead (Remote) at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Talent Scientist - Graduate Lead

Location: Lagos (Remote)

What your day will look like

• Build effective partnerships with leading academic institutions to raise awareness of our graduate opportunities.
• Create a highly effective proposition to inspire top talent to apply to Canonical.
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes.
• Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
• Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience.
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic background from both high school and university, with a Bachelor`s or Master`s Degree in a Psychology or People based subject.
• Experience of hiring talent in the technology industry, with an informed view point on graduate hiring essential.
• A highly data drive mindset with the ability to create measurable outcomes, using SQL.
• Passionate about how an organisation selects talent using scientific approaches with viewpoint on how to predict and measure hiring outcomes.
• Exposure/appreciation of psychometric assessments preferable, including interpretation.
• Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• Experience of the following tools advantageous: Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Superset, Thomas International/DISC assessments.
• A high level of personal organisation and self drive to work remotely and be effective.
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.

Application Closing Date
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