Corporate Recruiter | Talent Acquisition

Summary

As a Corporate Recruiter at APS, you will play a key role in driving our talent acquisition strategy by managing the full lifecycle of recruitment for both exempt and non-exempt positions. This dynamic role involves partnering with hiring managers, proactively sourcing top talent, and ensuring a seamless customer/candidate experience from start to finish.

What You Will Do

• Full-Cycle Recruitment: Manage the entire recruiting process, from creating sourcing strategies to screening/interviewing, extending offers, and closing top talent.
• Proactive Sourcing: Develop and implement creative and strategic sourcing plans to attract high-quality talent in a competitive market.
• Candidate Engagement: Conduct thorough screening, phone interviews, and assess candidates to ensure alignment with role requirements and company culture.
• Hiring Manager Partnership: Embody APS HR guiding principals for success by being solution oriented, a trusted advisor, and having a customer mindset while collaborating closely with hiring managers to understand workforce needs, provide consultative support, and guide them through the recruitment process.
• Offer Management: Manage the offer process, ensuring a positive candidate experience while negotiating terms that align with both company and candidate expectations.
• Workforce Planning: Support business goals by aligning recruiting efforts with workforce planning needs, ensuring we meet both immediate and long-term talent requirements.
• Special Projects: Participate in and lead special talent acquisition initiatives to continually improve our recruiting processes and employer brand.

What We're Looking For

• Recruiting Expertise: Proven experience in full lifecycle recruiting with a strong ability to source, screen/interview, and hire talent across a broad range of roles.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to attract the best candidates in a competitive talent market.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with both hiring managers and candidates.
• Consultative Approach: Strong consultative skills with the ability to guide hiring managers and provide expert advice on hiring strategies and best practices.
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and managing multiple recruitment projects simultaneously.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred OR an equivalent combination of four (4) years relevant work experience in Human Resources, Business Management or a related area.
• PLUS five (5) years of recruiting experience to include recruiting exempt and non-exempt individual contributor and leadership positions.
• Full understanding of principles, concepts and industry practices relating to recruiting.
• Ability to assert influence on decisions, ability to work in a team environment and communicate effectively (oral and written).
• Ability to prioritize, plan and initiate work activities, as well as build and maintain effective working relationships with candidates, hiring leaders and other human resource professionals.
• Excellent organizational skills, analytical and decision making skills, adaptability and integrity, project management, organization, communication, teamwork, and follow up skills.
• Excellent working knowledge and proficient skill level in Microsoft Office products, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel as well as electronic applicant tracking systems.
• Working knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

Major Accountabilities

• Consults with hiring leaders and human resource professionals to develop hiring strategies that ensure a positive end-to-end hiring experience.
• Influences hiring decisions by assessing talent through behavioral based interviews, facilitating selection decisions and extending job offers.
• Creatively source high caliber candidates by maximizing internet resources, cold calling, employee referrals, and other resource tools.
• Reviews / screens resumes, conduct interviews and presents top candidates.
• Manages candidate through selection process and act as a candidate advocate.
• Initiates and drives special projects to elevate the recruiting process and implement creative methods to find top tier candidates.
• Interacts with hiring leaders and human resource professionals to support the workforce planning needs of the business.
• Tracks analytical data regarding all facets of the hiring process, to include sourcing effectiveness, offer rate, accept rate, time to fill and other analysis as needed.
• Coordinates and attends recruiting events including job fairs, open houses, college fairs and community networking sessions.
• Expertise in employment law as it relates to hiring and record keeping.
• Maintains requisition folders ensuring compliance with all policies/procedures.
• Updates Applicant Tracking System in a timely manner to ensure the system accurately reflects requisition and candidate activity.