Contract Talent Acquisition Recruiter & Sourcer
Flexential · Denver, CO · 3 wk ago
HybridHuman Resources$30–$36/hrContract
Key Responsibilities And Essential Job Functions
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for a high volume of entry-level and mid-level roles, including intake, job posting, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer support, and candidate dispositioning.
- Support hiring across technical support, data center, IT operations, infrastructure, customer support, and related roles.
- Prioritize and manage multiple open requisitions at various stages while maintaining speed, quality, and a strong candidate experience.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, success profiles, must-have skills, location-specific needs, and hiring timelines.
- Provide regular hiring updates to stakeholders, including pipeline health, candidate activity, bottlenecks, and recommended next steps.
- Maintain strong process discipline to ensure roles move efficiently through each stage of the recruiting lifecycle.
Sourcing & Pipeline Development
- Build diverse candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, resume databases, LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, community networks, technical schools, and other sourcing channels.
- Screen candidates for role fit, technical aptitude, schedule/location requirements, compensation alignment, and overall readiness.
- Maintain accurate candidate records and pipeline activity in the ATS.
Hiring Manager & Candidate Experience
- Deliver a high-touch, white-glove experience for hiring managers by being responsive, prepared, consultative, and transparent.
- Build trust with hiring teams through clear communication, strong follow-through, and a customer-service mindset.
- Ensure candidates receive timely, professional, and consistent communication throughout the hiring process.
- Help reinforce structured recruiting practices, including clear intake alignment, calibrated candidate screening, timely feedback, and consistent process execution.
- Represent the company’s employment brand with professionalism, warmth, and credibility.
Process, Systems & Change Agility
- Maintain clean, accurate, and compliant data in the ATS, including candidate status, interview activity, notes, and disposition reasons.
- Adapt quickly as workflows, systems, processes, locations, and business needs evolve.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, increase efficiency, reduce friction, and improve hiring outcomes.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and other team members across the People & Culture function to support stabilization of new tools, workflows, and recruiting practices.
- Follow applicable employment laws, company policies, EEO guidelines, and compliance expectations throughout the recruiting lifecycle.
- Aid in TA Enablement duties such as coordinating scheduling.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years recruiting experience in high volume recruiting environments.
- 1 year experience with sourcing, including experience with LinkedIn, job boards, resume databases, Boolean search, referrals, and targeted outreach.
- Experience sourcing passive technical talent and building recurring talent pipelines.
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Solid understanding of recruiting best practices and basic employment compliance requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including polished email communication, strong phone presence, and professional stakeholder updates.
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to earn credibility with hiring managers and candidates.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to maintain accurate records and follow process expectations.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, change, and evolving priorities.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience recruiting for data center, technical support, network operations, IT infrastructure, field operations, or similar technical environments.
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems; Workday Recruiting and/or Greenhouse experience strongly preferred.
- Experience recruiting in an organization going through an ATS implementation, process transformation, or recruiting operations change.
- Familiarity with structured interviewing, scorecards, candidate calibration, and hiring manager enablement.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.