Amazon Recruitment – Tech Recruiter


Website Amazon

Position Summary:

We are looking to hire a talented and committed Campus Recruiter for our European Student Programs Recruiting team to play a critical role in managing Amazon’s growth and additional hiring requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
  • University relations – development of relationships with specific university careers service centers and societies. Strengthen current partnerships organising and participating to on-campus events
  • Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
  • Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification and Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
  • Liaison with Amazon recruiting teams and other internal groups to enable global reach of campus programs and leverage best practices
  • Responsible for developing strong working relationships with all key hiring managers and working closely with them to ensure graduate hiring needs are met for their groups
  • Responsible for hiring technical interns and graduates (attraction, selection processes, onboarding)
  • Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment of talent that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning current processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon’s mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
  • Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.

Required Education & Experience:

  • Experience with recruitment tools and systems
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent post-secondary degree
  • Fluent language skills in French, Spanish, German or another European language.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment (part of a cross-functional team is a plus) and to influence others.
  • Experience in a campus recruitment environment
  • Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships
  • Fluent written and spoken skills in English
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in recruiting (either as recruiting co-ordinator or junior recruiter)