Junior Copywriter, Employer Branding

Part business writing, part technical translator and all marketing, we need a Junior Copywriter, Employer Branding who can drill down to the details and express our client’s purpose, employee value proposition and growth trajectory in a way that grabs attention!

Toronto, ON

TalentMinded

<p>TalentMinded helps small to medium sized companies grow their business through high-impact talent acquisition programs. We consider ourselves the&nbsp;recruitment competitive advantage for our clients. Combine your culture and brand with our super-powered approach to compete effectively for top talent.</p> http://www.betalentminded.com

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Entry Level

Overview: <p><strong>Life is too short not to do awesome things with awesome people and clients.</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">At TalentMinded, we want to change the face of talent acquisition through data-driven recruitment processes, employer branding and direct industry insights. Reporting to our Co-founder and COO, we need a Junior Copywriter to join our Delivery team.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">At TalentMinded, our mission is to create a competitive advantage for our clients by helping them build their culture and hire the right people. We aren&rsquo;t a recruiting agency! We are so much more. We are experts in our field, backed by over 20 years of experience with modern, intelligent and creative talent acquisition strategies. We are the first subscription-based full service talent acquisition company in Canada. We provide our clients end-to-end recruitment services from strategy to execution. That means we partner with our clients and work side-by-side with them to increase their employee value proposition and to ground their image in social media channels as transparent and forthcoming. These efforts lay the foundation for building a successful talent pipeline, driving better hiring manager engagement and better hiring outcomes.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Who we need</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Part business writing, part technical translator and all marketing, we need a Junior Copywriter, Employer Branding who can drill down to the details and express our client&rsquo;s purpose, employee value proposition and growth trajectory in a way that grabs attention! It&rsquo;s storytelling, ghost writing and advertising all rolled into one. We need someone who can write engaging content for our hiring managers; draft eye-catching social media bursts; and create job ads that stand out in a sea of hundreds.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Whether you have an outstanding business acumen, along with exposure to recruiting and marketing, or you are a recent grad eager to learn, adapt and build out your branding skills, you have the ability to take mountains of information and distill it down to essential messaging. Your thoughtful writing excites the reader and encourages them to take action -&nbsp; whether that&rsquo;s to research a company, refer a friend, share the content or apply for the role.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What&rsquo;s in it for you</strong></p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>Impact. You want to see the impact of your work as you influence our approach to talent acquisition. We are open to new ideas and this is a chance to see the results of your efforts; to be able to measure the effect you have on the success of our projects and our company.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>Exposure. You want to expand your knowledge. You will be mentored by our CSO and work closely with our Chief Storyteller. You will interact with clients and the entire TalentMinded team, gathering and implementing feedback. This is an opportunity to build a career in talent acquisition, social media marketing and content development.</li> <li>Professional development. You want to grow your skills set. You will have access to technical knowledge training and develop the ability to confidently discuss the use of different tools, best practices, technologies and methodologies in technical roles.</li> </ul>
Responsibilities: <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here&rsquo;s what you will do as our Junior Copywriter, Employer Branding:</strong></p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>Write. You will write job ads, emails, social media postings, blog entries, and other content for our clients.&nbsp;</li> <li>Support. You will create visual job ads using our online tool and assist with posting and promoting job ads across multiple online sources.</li> <li>Collaborate with the Chief Storyteller. You will partner with the Chief Storyteller to create and edit content marketing initiatives working with clients. You will adapt your writing style and tone to fit the needs of the client, aligning content with their own internal branding guidelines.</li> <li>Meet deadlines.<em>&nbsp;</em>You will stay on-task, delivering copy and content for review and approval internally within the predetermined deadline. Our ability to attract talent and build out a pipeline starts with an awesome job ad.</li> <li>Edit. You will use Grammarly or a similar technology to ensure your copy is error-free.</li> <li>Grow relationships. You will get to know the team, who does what, where they sit, what card game they&rsquo;ll steal from you at every Holiday gift exchange and what roles they are working on. You will grow into a subject matter expert, offering insights into the talent pool, the best working job titles and how to engage candidates.</li> <li>Help us build our brand. And we will help you build yours. You will enjoy the benefits of working with a highly networked, extremely talented group of people.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <div id="job-description" class="col col-xs-7 job-description summary"> <div class="description"> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here&rsquo;s what you bring:</strong></p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>A university degree or college diploma and relevant experience. Tell us why you are awesome and why you have an interest in writing for recruitment. You have hands-on experience as part of an incredibly fast-moving team, with multiple parts, people, deliverables, and layers. Whether that&rsquo;s as a customer service team, academic groups or projects, work outside of Canada or directly related to what you&rsquo;ll do here, we&rsquo;re interested to see how you present yourself as the person for this role.</li> <li>A sense of fabulousness, fun, and fashion (A love of the colour turquoise will definitely garner bonus points!). You also have a strong karaoke repertoire.</li> <li>A commitment to treating people well, to appreciating hard work, to inspiring loyalty, to motivating participation, to being accountable.</li> <li>An unbeatable communication style. You are comfortable working closely with internal and external teams; speaking directly with clients and candidates.</li> <li>The confidence to learn new technologies and processes.&nbsp;</li> <li>A sense of balance and of ownership. You can work fast but you can easily change priorities. You are meticulous but you understand the importance of volume and producing results. You don&rsquo;t need to be told what to do, you see gaps, and you fill them. If there is work to be done, you are already on it.</li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here&rsquo;s what you should know about TalentMinded:</strong></p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>We&rsquo;ve had a tremendous first five years and we have no intention of slowing down.&nbsp;</li> <li>We believe that recruitment is a critical business process; not just a function of HR.</li> <li>We love technology, but we also value the importance of face-to-face connections.</li> <li>We have processes, but we aren&rsquo;t strangled in layers of approval.&nbsp;</li> <li>We care about candidate experience - a lot.</li> <li>We believe in aligning company brand and the employment value proposition.</li> <li>We are committed to helping our people grow and consistently stretch their ability.</li> <li>And, we believe in being awesome!</li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What&rsquo;s the downside?</strong></p> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>We are still scaling.<em>&nbsp;</em>We have awesome onboarding processes and capitalize on training opportunities when they arise but we don&rsquo;t have a formal training and development department. You will need to take the initiative to identify when and where you need professional development opportunities.&nbsp;</li> <li>We work fast. Recruitment is hard and moves fast. We are responsive and operate at lightning speed. This isn&rsquo;t for the faint of heart.&nbsp;</li> <li>We are project-based...but we aren&rsquo;t. Recruitment is a continuous pursuit. You will need to adapt your thinking to take the wins as you roll into the next task.</li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Join us</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">We have so much more to tell you about TalentMinded and our future. If our values and our path sound like something you&rsquo;d like to explore, we&rsquo;d love to learn more about your career goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">Think you don&rsquo;t have it all but feel you can make a difference here? Submit your application and tell us why we should hire you. We promise to consider your full profile.&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">TalentMinded welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col col-xs-5 job-application-form">&nbsp;</div>