Facebook Recruiter Mock Interview
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Facebook is looking for a Recruiter with experience mapping target companies, leveraging open source communities, and using creative sourcing techniques. Tell me about a time when you utilized your industry network to source exceptional talent.
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
As a Facebook Recruiter, it's essential that you can be creative and competitive in your sourcing techniques. Three specific methods for uncovering candidates in a competitive industry include talent mapping and leveraging open source communities.
- Talent Mapping: This term describes the practice of building an organizational chart to determine where viable candidates within your competing companies might be hiding. Talent mapping ensures that you don't miss a potentially excellent candidate because you spend time looking through the cracks. For instance, talent mapping might uncover that you should entertain one of your candidates' leaders who is more suited for your open position.
- Open Source Communities: A group of people (typically developers) who collaborate on building a product of shared interest. You can find open source communities online in places such as GitHub.
- Other Creative Sourcing Techniques: Moving your recruitment efforts beyond Boolean search and your company's ATS, consider other methods such as reaching out to potential candidates on platforms such as Medium or checking in with your competitors' newest hires and temperature test them for job satisfaction.
Talk to the interviewer about your creative candidate sourcing skills. Show that you understand the efforts you will need to be an impactful Recruiter for Facebook and its industry which often requires highly competitive talent attraction and candidate sourcing strategies.
Include a brief story describing when a specific creative sourcing technique helped you find and hire a terrific candidate. You can use the STAR answer method for delivering your story-based response. STAR is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action, Result.
- Situation: Provide the contextual information the interviewer needs to know to make sense of your story.
- Task: Continuing to set the stage, give the interviewer an idea of your role and responsibilities in this story.
- Action: Next, offer a detailed description of the steps you took in this story.
- Result: Last, talk about the specific, measurable outcomes that resulted from your actions.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"One of my strongest skills as a Recruiter is my ability to develop and execute fully comprehensive sourcing plans. I understand that Facebook is highly competitive in its candidate sourcing and talent attraction strategies, and I come prepared to be an active and impactful leader in these efforts. (Situation & Task) As a Recruiter for Company XYZ, we also face the highly competitive candidate market that comes with the tech space. I often need to source candidates who seem nearly impossible to find; however, it's a wonderful feeling when I uncover the right fit! (Action) Just last week, I was sourcing for a Technical Program Manager with experience in AI and ML hardware. The individual needed to have leadership experience in technical program management in a matrix organization and bring knowledge of infrastructure engineering. Rather than begin looking in the company's ATS, I decided to start with competitors with the same need. I went on LinkedIn and filtered my search to individuals who had just started working for a competitor in a similar role. I found three individuals in total. Although I was aware that these individuals were passive candidates and may not be looking for a new position already, I was equally aware that they might be dissatisfied with their new position and desire to leave. (Result) In the end, one of the three people that I sourced was, in fact, dissatisfied with their newly secured role. We are currently entertaining them and will likely be putting out a job offer next week. This is just one example of how I have positively impacted my current employer as a creative and diligent Recruiter. I look forward to doing the same for Facebook!"
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