Contract Recruiter

Contract Recruiter

 
Job ID: Job-1125       
Job Title:      Contract Recruiter     
location:       New York, NY   
Jobtype:        Contract       
Description:    Duration: Approximately 6 months 

The candidate must be able to successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all customer SLAs. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done. The best candidates will draw on extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and functional areas of the business, forging dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers and HR business partners. They have a reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation, client/account management, organization, possess strong verbal and written communication skills, have an ability to prioritize their time, demonstrate pushback and a sense of urgency, and understand the value of providing amazing customer service. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment. 
• Must be able to understand how to recruit passive candidates and possess the mentality to "profile people and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and understand their motivation" rather than sell a role. 
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios. 
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within the firm’s mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer. 
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline. 
• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

Intermediate Microsoft Word and Excel; and ATS skills are required. Basic PowerPoint skills are also required. 
A minimum of five years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting. 

Experience: 
• Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans including social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and internet search strings. 
• CTS/ATS experience with sourcing, tracking and managing candidates.. 
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or equivalent applications. 
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships. 

Experience: 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent post-secondary degree. 
• Healthcare, IT or high volume call center/customer service/sales recruiting experience. 
• Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer. 
• Strong communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills. 
• Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management. 
• Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision. 
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member. 
• Possess strong analytic skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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