Talent Acquisition Consultant
Job ID #: 51573
Location: AZ-Phoenix
Functional Area: Human Resources
Company Name: VALIC
Employment Type: Full Time - Regular
Education Preferred: Bachelors
Experience Required: 3-5 years
Relocation Provided: No


Position Description
VALIC, a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), specializes in retirement savings and investment products and services, including individual variable and fixed annuities, group retirement products, mutual funds, financial planning and investment advisory services and guaranteed investment contracts. We serve seven million customers through our vast distribution network of registered representatives, independent broker-dealers, national and regional securities firms, banks and insurance agencies.

We are currently interviewing for a Talent Acquisition Consultant to join the VALIC National Sales Recruiting Team. We need your help to find, qualify and recruit experienced and entry-level Financial Advisors in order to grow our business. We have an aggressive plan in place that will add approximately 400 to our national sales force of nearly 1,300 Financial Advisors this year alone.

What You Will Be Doing:

Find, assess, engage, hire, and on-board the highest quality candidates, especially in the critical skill areas. Assess candidate skills, background and fit so as to predict performance levels and styles with a high degree of accuracy. Stay abreast of marketplace trends and competitor practices in order to educate hiring management and build or maintain a competitive advantage for VALIC.
Performance Objectives:

1. Manage the full life-cycle of the recruiting process.
a. Build clear candidate and position/performance profiles.
b. Contract with each and every hiring manager on search timeline, milestones and sourcing plans.
c. Recruit / Source, contact, screen and interview candidates.
d. Assess candidate’s competency to include job fit, motivational fit and culture fit.
e. Complete the recruiting process, including facilitating selection, negotiating offers and owning the relationship between the candidate and VALIC.
f. Manage requisitions through the Applicant Tracking Tool (PeopleClick).
g. Provide progress reports and scorecards to Regional Leadership & Hiring Managers.

2. Assess the current situation in recruiting for the sales regions you support. Meet with hiring managers and learn critical aspects of position, indicators of success, and ideal candidate profile.

3. Identify and utilize internal and external resources available to assist in proactively seeking talent in a competitive recruiting environment. Internal resources would include those available locally within the region and in Houston (each Talent Acquisition Consultant has a Coordinator to support the “back-end” pieces of the process such as posting, background checks, offer letters, new hire kits, new hire paperwork, etc..). External resources would include open access into the NASD & Insurance Databases (for direct mail campaigns, call lists, etc…), internet postings and database access (Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs & BrokerHunter), Print Advertisement to include Industry Trade Publications, Wall Street Journal, etc…. & Interactive Media Strategies.

4. Learn and utilize all technologies and process requirements in order to comply with business unit standards (PeopleClick is AIG’s Applicant Tracking Tool) and other internal HR Systems (SAIGE & PeopleSoft).

5. Familiarize yourself with the different business and operational groups within VALIC that serve as stakeholders and partners in the recruitment process: Licensing, Agent Compensation, Relationship / Group Management, Internal & External Wholesaling, Product Development, Market & Vertical Strategy Groups.

6. Develop short and longer term sourcing strategies by partnering with Sales Leaders (Regional Vice Presidents) and Hiring Managers (District Managers).

7. Act as a vendor liaison and be engaged in the management of such vendor relationships.

Position Requirements
We are looking for results-oriented professional with the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced and somewhat ambiguous corporate environment. The preferred candidate will possess:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3 - 5 years corporate recruiting and/or external recruitment experience while supporting Sales positions required
• Ability to think critically
• Incredibly well organized with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to process changes and different technology systems
• Proficiency with automated applicant tracking tools, Email Systems (Lotus Notes is the email system of VALIC), web-based recruiting resources and MS Office
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in the organization

About Us
Retirement Services serves more than five million customers with retirement savings products and services through its vast distribution network of registered representatives, independent broker-dealers, national and regional securities firms, banks and insurance agencies.

The six major businesses that comprise Retirement Services include:

Advisor Group, Inc., one of the largest independent broker-dealer networks in the United States and consists of FSC Securities Corporation, SagePoint Financial, Inc. and Royal Alliance.

SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, Inc. (SAAHP), one of the nation's leading investors in low-income housing tax credit transactions and the fifth largest apartment investor in the nation.

SunAmerica Asset Management Corp., a mutual fund and asset management business.

SunAmerica Retirement Markets, Inc., specializing in marketing and distributing retirement savings products through an extensive national network of registered representatives at independent broker-dealers, securities firms and banks.

VALIC, who, for more than half a century, has served as a leading plan provider for K-12 schools and school districts, as well as for higher education and healthcare institutions.

Western National Life Insurance Company, the largest issuer of fixed annuities in the United States and the leading provider of annuities sold through financial institutions.

Equal Opportunity Employer.