Talent Acquisition Advisor – Contract

About Us:   The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.   Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Talent Acquisition Advisor – Contract  6-month contract, with potential to extend  This is a six-month contract to start, with extension based on performance. If a full-time role opens on our team and your work supports it, there’s a real path to converting and growing with us. Either way, it’s the same work, the same team, and the same expectations as any Advisor here.  Do any of these sound familiar?   “Can you just send me more resumes?”   “How many people applied?”   “There’s just no one out there.”   “I’m not in a rush, I know the perfect person is out there.”   “I need them to start in two weeks,” for a role that took two months to recruit last time   “Can you find someone exactly like my last person, but with more experience?”   “Let’s just go to an agency.”   Every recruiter has heard these. At MSK, we want Advisors who can turn them into better conversations.  At MSK, TA success = Speed × Quality × Partnership. You’d be the one making all three happen:  Speed: move with purpose. Keep searches moving with clear steps and quick decisions, and never leave candidates hanging.  Quality: make the right choice. The person you hire does well and stays. Use data, then use your judgment.  Partnership: share the ownership. You and the hiring manager own the outcome together, and you bring the market insight.  Miss one and it falls apart. Fast without quality means fast mistakes. Quality without speed means we lose the candidate. Both without partnership means results nobody trusts.  What this role really is   You’re not an administrator or a resume pipeline. You’re a partner with the same goal as your hiring managers: getting the right person hired, someone who moves team capability, culture, and our mission forward.  That means you:  Want to learn about MSK beyond the roles you recruit on: how the hospital runs, how clinical and research teams work together, and what our leaders are trying to solve.  Can recruit for anything. volume, niche, leadership, corporate or clinical - you believe a great recruiter can pivot. You either know what works in each or have the scrappiness to figure it out.  Make decisions based on evidence, not hunches or “how we’ve always done it.”  Have honest, direct and empathetic conversations, even when it’s…