Contract Recruiter Job Description
Contract recruiter
provides full-cycle recruitment including: Needs Analysis to understand role requirements, creating sourcing strategy to attract top tier candidates, interviewing candidates and short-listing candidates to present to hiring managers.
Contract Recruiter Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Build pipelines of families of positions for which there are typically a significant number of similar openings
Guide process flow from opening of job requirements in the system to onboarding a candidate
Proactively reaching out to candidates
Phone screening candidates
Performing in-person interviews
Managing the full cycle recruitment process
Complete detailed job scopes conversation with the hiring leader to determine position specifications
Solicit and pursue referrals from business networks and/or internal referrals
Utilize proprietary software for mobile and email campaigning to talent communities
Articulate value proposition for candidates who are interested in the job opportunity
Contract Recruiter Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Contract Recruiter
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PHR, CPC, SPHR, AIRS, SHRM, CP, HR, CHCR, SCP, CFA
Education for Contract Recruiter
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the contract recruiter job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Human Resources, Business, Education, Marketing, Business/Administration, Communication, Technical, Human Resources Management, Communications, Associates
Skills for Contract Recruiter
Desired skills for contract recruiter include:
Role design and the competencies
Applicant Tracking Systems
Screen and present candidates to opportunities
Current marketplace and trends to ensure competitive hiring tactics
Interviewing techniques
Relation to position requirements
Networking
Qualifying
Assessing
Competitors
Desired experience for contract recruiter includes:
Prepare candidates for interviews
Conduct professional and thoughtful phone interviews
Compare candidate phone interview notes and skills assessments with requisition specifications to determine if the candidate is a match for the role
Articulate a job offer and drives for candidate acceptance
Provide accurate and regular reporting of recruiting activities
Proactively and regularly communicate the status of each search to the hiring manager
Contract Recruiter Examples
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Contract Recruiter Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of contract recruiter. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for contract recruiter
- Responsible for full cycle recruitment for open positions across all business functions
- Meet with hiring managers to discuss role responsibilities and requirements
- Manage weekly open positions report and provide concise updates to HR Business Partners
- Support the recruitment/HR team by maintaining recruitment documents and managing metrics & reporting
- Maintain a high level of industry awareness, understanding the startup, tech, and fashion/retail landscape to keep tabs on emerging and transitioning businesses, industry news, competitive analysis
- Plan and host recruiting events for the company that represents our unique and transformed work environment that will result in hires
- Execute the full lifecycle recruitment process for entry, mid to senior level hires and partner with various managers at the company to actively recruit talent
- Partner with hiring partners and team members to ensure an overall awesome candidate experience
- Maintain strategic communication with the Hiring Managers at all times
- Perform departmental needs assessments for hiring expectations to ensure quality hires
Qualifications for contract recruiter
- Knowledge of sourcing and mining techniques within the recruiting space
- Passion or interest in music, technology and media
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and recruiting systems (iCIMS experience a plus)
- 1+ year of Corporate Technical Recruitment and/or Agency Technical Recruiting experience
- Promote and implement strategic initiatives
- Participate in the development and implementation of strategic recruitment initiatives at all sites
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a contract recruiter. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for contract recruiter
- Develop recruiting strategies designed to identify qualified sales candidates through various recruiting tools
- Match sales candidates' strengths with clients' requirements by evaluating, screening, and performing in-depth interviews with candidates
- Manage and prioritize multiple searches (20), projects and client relationships
- Offer work proposals, negotiate with candidates and finalize contract terms & conditions
- Accompany integration of new employees in the organization
- Collect and distribute interview feedback
- Partner with Hiring Managers to identify and understand key requirements and together build a recruiting strategy
- Manage full-cycle recruiting process to meet hiring goals across all levels
- Establish relationships with client groups and develop a deep understanding of their objectives, strategies, technology tools, software architecture, technical challenges, and culture
- Ensure a seamless and positive candidate experience
Qualifications for contract recruiter
- Has established industry and professional peer connections to pulse and sense recruiting opportunity windows created by talent movements in the market
- Pre-closes candidates and negotiates mid to senior level offers
- Measures HR effectiveness through appropriate benchmarking and metrics
- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related field is required
- High level of emotional intelligence, an effective leader, and a desire to foster teamwork among peers
- Flexibility, able to adapt and thrive in a fast paced environment
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Our company is looking to fill the role of contract recruiter. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for contract recruiter
- Promote campus hiring and university relations
- Coordinate and administer pre-employment assessments
- Partners with hiring managers to identify, evaluate required duties and responsibilities, knowledge, hard and soft skills and abilities regarding job requirements
- Assists hiring managers in creating job descriptions that identify the duties and responsibilities, education, experience, and knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully complete the job
- Partners with hiring manager providing consultative and advisory recruiting strategy including market trends, candidate assessments, candidate challenges, time lines, interview schedules/conflicts
- Reviews/analyzes resumes and/or applications, interviews (via phone and/or one-on-one), identifies candidates meet requirements, schedules candidates for interviews with hiring managers, assist hiring managers in selecting candidates for hire, conducts reference and background checks
- Processes and provides on-boarding information for hiring agency
- Travels and participates in college recruitment, job fairs, and other recruiting initiatives
- Work with Hiring Managers and Directors to determine target profiles
- Source candidates via various methods to maintain a pipeline of talent
Qualifications for contract recruiter
- Experience in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment
- Strong knowledge and experience in creating and implementing strategic Recruiting initiatives
- Ability to manage high volume recruitment
- Knowledge of current applicant management systems and web based recruitment tools
- Experience with AAP and EEO requirements
- OFFCP experience (compliance metrics, program experience, best practices)
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of contract recruiter. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for contract recruiter
- Screen, interview, and evaluate candidates
- Foster relationships with candidates though follow-up and follow-through
- Shepard candidates through the interview process, negotiate salaries, and close them
- Develop and maintain understanding of recruitment best practices, understanding of businesses operations
- Responsible for full-cycle recruiting efforts
- Screens resumes and conducts initial screening interviews of internal and external candidates for full- and part-time positions
- Set up candidate interviews with hiring managers
- Provide hiring managers with regular feedback on search process, candidate profiles, challenges and opportunities
- Ensure pre-employment activities are initiated and completed
- Consult and recommend a talent identification strategy through targeted advertising sources & passive recruiting
Qualifications for contract recruiter
- Proven track record in hiring sales and technical positions such as presales Systems Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Account Managers
- Sense of urgency and results oriented
- Ability to run independently whilst collaborate with stakeholders globally
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources or related discipline preferred or equivalent experience
- Experience required in a setting that requires a sense of immediacy, ability to manage competing demands, receive criticism and constructive feedback and maintain adaptability and flexibility
- Experience placing senior level and niche candidates highly preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a contract recruiter. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for contract recruiter
- Ensure Hiring Managers understand and act upon diversity goals and workforce plans
- Exercising independent judgment regarding the technical and nontechnical competencies of prospective employees in order to make recommendations to management in the first stage of the selection process
- Full life-cycle recruiting for all levels of the organization
- Working with internal and external customers to understand staffing needs and position requirements
- Conduct candidate interviews via phone and face to face
- Writing and posting job position descriptions
- Support various teams and work directly with leaders to understand their needs, drive pipeline, develop strategies to close candidates, implement processes, and provide consistent updates on hiring progress
- Periodically relieve the Receptionist for breaks and lunches
- Assisting with the planning and coordination of employee events
- Attend company sponsored events that relate to the development of the team, which could be overnight
Qualifications for contract recruiter
- Analyze present recruitment strategies and enhance with creative sourcing methods - Improve the customer experience with customers broadly defined as candidates, new hires, hiring managers
- Knowledge and past use of a web-based applicant tracking system, preferably Taleo, preferred
- Expert applicant tracking system user, ability to train others in the usage of ATS
- Has a strong ability to identify and source a wide range of talent
- 3+ years of experience recruiting for professionals in the technology space
- Strong understanding of the recruitment life-cycle in an in-house environment