Job Description

WHO WE ARE

Oxford + Richmond is a leading global retained search firm committed to shaping the future of talent acquisition.

We have over 70 years of experience building and recruiting teams in start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. As a firm, we have successfully completed thousands of searches across virtually every industry. 

Leveraging the best process, technology and recruitment consultants, we are on a mission to help our clients more effectively secure the talent they need throughout their organization.

Our unique approach has earned us recognition as one of the Top 10 Emerging Search Firms in Canada (2022), a Top 60 Recruitment Firm in Canada (2023 & 2024) and a Top 250 Search Firm in North America (2024).

TalentSpoke™, an Oxford + Richmond company, is a next-generation embedded recruitment solution for organizations with ongoing recruitment needs at the professional and mid-level. 

TalentSpoke™ combines its advanced platform with a proactive sales process, data-driven insights and expert recruitment consultants to identify, engage, and evaluate candidates, ensuring consistently better and faster hires.

Our Values:

We’re on a mission to change recruiting for clients and candidates alike. We share a passion for delivering an unmatched customer experience and building long-term relationships while never wavering on our core values: integrity, innovation, humility, trust, transparency, partnership, and diversity.

Our Team:

We’re a team of people-people. We go deeper with our clients and candidates so we can make the best matches possible (not more commission). And we constantly try out innovative ideas and new technologies that help us work smarter and drive results.

If you’re curious to know more about who you’d be working with at TalentSpoke™, check out our Team page.

Why oxford + richmond:

We’re a tight-knit team with shared values and a passion for our work. Here are the key traits we foster in our workplace:

Progressive - We constantly embrace new ideas and technologies. Our goal: to help our clients stay ahead of the competition in fast-changing talent markets.

Growth Focused - We’re ambitious by nature. And our unique compensation structure, which doesn’t cap earning potential, reflects that idea.

Inclusive - We’re advocates for DEI and committed to building an inclusive company— because everyone should feel empowered and welcome at work.

Entrepreneurial - An entrepreneurial spirit is part of our team’s DNA—and it makes us more agile, results-driven, and creative for our clients.

Humble - We serve our clients and each other with humility because we believe we always have something to learn, no matter how long we’ve been in the game.

Collaborative - When we work as a team, we create more value for our clients. That’s why we have a supportive, collaborative culture that helps us win more, together.

Rewarding - With an uncapped and unprecedented compensation structure, we offer an industry-unique opportunity for driven and results-oriented performers.

Empathetic - Whether it’s deeply understanding our clients’ struggles or developing programs to drive social impact, we bring compassion to all that we do.

Fun - We work hard and put customers first. But we also prioritize having fun so that we can build camaraderie and infuse more joy into our work and lives.

Key Links:

• Oxford + Richmond Website
• Oxford + Richmond LinkedIn
• TalentSpoke™ Website
• TalentSpoke™ LinkedIn
• Our Blogs/News
• Our Collaboration with the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA)

Be part of a fast-growing company that is disrupting the recruitment industry and better serving the needs of organizations globally.

THE POSITION

Due to the demand for TalentSpoke™, we are looking for Recruiters to join our growing team. This person will lead and execute full-cycle recruitment efforts for our clients, develop and maintain diverse candidate pools, implement new processes to ensure exceptional client and candidate experiences, and strengthen our brand in the marketplace.

Among other qualities, an ideal candidate is a positive, genuine, energetic, ambitious, and entrepreneurial-minded self-starter with at least 2 years of full-cycle recruitment experience and a passion for building relationships and delivering exceptional client and candidate experiences. They must be confident and empathetic communicators, possess innate sales and relationship management abilities, and embrace our values of high ethics and superior customer service. Strong project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment are also critical. This is a great opportunity to join an innovative and disruptive company on an exciting upward trajectory. Competitive compensation with uncapped performance-based upside will be offered.

THE CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

● Recruiting: Provide full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, engaging, interviewing, and evaluating to ensure the most highly qualified and best-suited candidates are selected for all positions.

● Client relationship management: Develop and maintain relationships with clients, understand their recruitment needs, and provide proactive consultation on recruitment and talent management strategies.

● Ensure an outstanding candidate experience: Provide frequent, transparent and timely communication and guidance to candidates throughout the entire recruitment process. Design, distribute and measure the results of candidate experience surveys.

● Record keeping and reporting: Maintain accurate records of candidate interactions and progress, and generate reports on recruitment metrics and progress to clients.

● Process Improvement: Identify process enhancement opportunities to ensure exceptional client and candidate experiences. Implement best practices related to the candidate experience, inclusive recruitment and the development of diverse and high-quality candidate pools. Review and analyze recruitment data to gain insights and inform decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives.

● Be an Ambassador: Operate with professionalism, transparency, humility and the highest ethical standard to strengthen our clients’ established and growing reputations, their employee value propositions and employer brands in the market.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

● Be a resilient, self-motivated and sales-oriented individual with at least 2 years of hands-on sales or account management experience, with full-cycle talent acquisition experience as an asset

● Have a strong customer focus (candidate and client) with a proven ability to build lasting relationships

● Analytical with solid business acumen, comfortable leveraging data (qualitative and quantitative) to make informed decisions and recommendations for process improvement

● A confident, flexible and empathetic communicator who can interact at all levels of an organization and quickly establish credibility at all levels of an organization

● Creative and effective storyteller who can engage potential candidates and get them excited by new opportunities

● Possess strong project management and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to juggle multiple projects in a lean and entrepreneurial environment

● A positive, energetic, fun, ambitious, collaborative and entrepreneurial-minded self-starter with the ability to stay focused on results despite changing conditions

● Is adaptable and can thrive in a growing, fast-paced organization

● Future-minded, innovative and open to new ideas and technologies

● Exemplify our core values: integrity, innovation, humility, trust + transparency, partnership + Diversity

THE ATTRACTIONS

● An uncapped compensation structure – while benefiting from a highly respected brand + team with a 35+ year track record of search success.

● Opportunity to join a progressive + fast-growing search firm and a dynamic team on a mission to disrupt an often stale + complacent industry.

● The chance to work in a fun, ambitious, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment for an organization with a strong growth mandate, that embraces innovation and new ideas, has an employee-focused culture, forward-thinking leadership and an incredible upward trajectory.

● The freedom to control your own destiny and build your career.

● The opportunity to work remotely and have a flexible schedule.

● If you want to work at an entrepreneurial business where you will have the opportunity to make a real impact, gain significant experience executing innovative talent management solutions, and gain valuable professional development through ongoing coaching and mentorship, then you might be a great fit for Oxford + Richmond.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

● Oxford + Richmond is a progressive, retained boutique management and executive-level search firm. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards and the greatest commitment to providing exceptional customer service. We live and breathe our core values of Integrity, Humility, Innovation, Trust + Transparency, Relationship-focus, and Diversity

● At Oxford + Richmond, we respect the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information provided by potential candidates, our clients, and outside parties who assist us in our searches. We are committed to keeping the personal information you share with us, whether over the Internet, on the telephone or in person, confidential. The use of such information will only be for the purpose for which it was collected. For more information on our privacy policy, please visit https://oxfordandrichmond.com/privacy-policy/

● At Oxford + Richmond, we are always committed to meeting the needs of all individuals/candidates in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code