Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

About This Role

• /Preferred Qualifications Job Description Summary Own KLA Taiwan’s university relations, campus recruiting, and talent-engagement activities to increase qualified resume volume and build sustainable candidate pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Alongside this ownership, independently manage full-cycle recruitment for one assigned division.
• This is a hands-on role combining external partnership development, event execution, candidate generation, and recruiting deliver Job Description/Preferred Qualifications Full-Cycle Recruiting Independently own recruitment for one assigned division, from intake and sourcing through interviews, offer negotiation, acceptance, and onboarding handoff.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify requirements, prioritize openings, and deliver agreed hiring timelines.
• Drive timely feedback and decisions, resolve hiring barriers, and maintain a positive candidate experience.
• Keep Workday records accurate and balance requisition delivery with university and event commitments.
• University Relations & Campus Recruiting Develop and execute a university engagement plan aligned with hiring demand, technical disciplines, locations, and recruiting timelines.
• Build lasting relationships with career centers, faculty, laboratories, student organizations, and alumni networks.
• Lead campus talks, career fairs, technical sessions, department visits, and company visits that generate applications and qualified resumes.
• Maintain year-round engagement to build candidate pipelines before hiring peaks.
• Recruiting Events & Talent Engagement Identify and deliver opportunities to engage both early-career and experienced talent, including open houses, interview days, industry networking, referral events, and virtual career sessions.
• Own event planning and execution, including candidate outreach, registration, business participation, vendors, budgets, logistics, and follow-up.
• Establish qualified-resume targets for each activity and convert participant interest into recruiting-ready candidate profiles.
• Evaluate results and expand activities that consistently generate relevant candidates.
• Qualified Resume & Pipeline Development Increase qualified candidate supply through university partnerships, events, referrals, professional networks, and proactive sourcing.
• Screen profiles against agreed hiring requirements and capture candidate interests, availability, and location preferences.
• Maintain organized, searchable candidate pools and promptly connect qualified candidates with the appropriate recruiter.
• Track source effectiveness and maintain appropriate candidate consent and data privacy.
• Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Communications, Engineering, or a related field. 8+ years of relevant talent acquisition experience, including hands-on recruiting and ownership of university, campus, or candidate-generation programs.
• Demonstrated success independently building partnerships and executing recruiting events that produce qualified resumes.
• Proven ability to manage full-cycle recruiting independently.
• Strong relationship-building, presentation, project management, sourcing, screening, and negotiation skills.
• Experience recruiting for engineering, semiconductor, equipment, or other technical organizations preferred.
• Data analysis: Independently clean, validate, and analyze recruiting data using Excel Actionable insights: Use resume volume, channel costs, and conversion rates to recommend which universities, events, and sourcing activities to prioritize.
• Independent judgment: Question assumptions, investigate causes, compare alternatives, and explain recommendations with evidence.
• Responsible AI use: Use AI as support, not a substitute for personal analysis.
• Verify its outputs, explain the reasoning in one’s own words, and remain accountable for accuracy and final recommendations.
• Success Measures Primary: Growth in unique, qualified resumes and sustained candidate supply for priority hiring needs.
• Qualified-resume yield and cost by university, event, and sourcing channel.
• Timely candidate follow-up and recruiter handoff.
• Conversion of generated profiles into interviews and hires.
• Achievement of assigned-division hiring goals, offer acceptance, and candidate experience Minimum Qualifications We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package.
• We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
• KLA never asks for any financial compensation to be considered for an interview, to become an employee, or for equipment.
• Further, KLA does not work with any recruiters or third parties who charge such fees either directly or on behalf of KLA .
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• KLA follows a recruiting process that involves multiple interviews in person or on video conferencing with our hiring managers.
• If you are concerned that a communication, an interview, an offer of employment, or that an employee is not legitimate, please send an email to talent.acquisition@kla.com to confirm the person you are communicating with is an employee.
• We take your privacy very seriously and confidentially handle your information.