Early Career Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

Our Early Career Talent (ECT) program provides a significant pipeline for the skill sets needed for an all-electric future and the future leaders of General Motors. We are looking for an Early Career Talent Acquisition Partner to support the recruitment of interns, co-ops, new college graduates, and other early-career talent for GM’s technical and business organizations. This role partners with hiring managers, HR, ECT program leaders, and other Talent Acquisition teams to deliver a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience in a challenging, high-volume, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is collaborative, organized, candidate-focused, and comfortable balancing multiple priorities. They bring sound recruiting judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to build relationships with candidates, universities, student organizations, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers and HR to understand workforce needs, clarify role requirements, define target candidate profiles, and align on recruiting strategy and timelines.
• Manage assigned requisitions through the full recruiting lifecycle, including sourcing, applicant review, candidate assessment, interviews, selection, offers, and pre-employment activities.
• Recruit early-career talent across a broad range of technical, non-technical, business, and functional roles aligned to GM’s evolving workforce needs.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through university relationships, career fairs, student organizations, conferences, referrals, direct sourcing, and talent community engagement.
• Support targeted campus and virtual engagement strategies that align with GM’s hiring needs and priority talent markets.
• Partner with hiring managers and interview teams to support consistent, structured, and timely assessment processes.
• Coordinate with recruiting coordinators, sourcers, ECT program managers, Talent Marketing, HR partners, and other cross-functional stakeholders to keep hiring activity moving and ownership clear.
• Deliver a positive candidate experience through clear expectations, timely communication, interview preparation, thoughtful follow-up, and ongoing engagement through the offer and start process.
• Support intern conversion, returning intern, graduating intern, co-op, and new college graduate hiring activities as assigned.
• Maintain accurate and timely recruiting activity, candidate status, and requisition information in Workday and other Talent Acquisition systems.
• Use recruiting data and market insights to identify bottlenecks, communicate risks, and recommend practical improvements to recruiting plans and processes.
• Represent GM at university events, student programs, professional conferences, and other talent engagement activities as needed.
• Demonstrate GM Behaviors by owning outcomes, moving with urgency, leading as one team, committing to customers, being inclusive, and speaking fearlessly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of professional experience in Talent Acquisition, recruiting, human resources, or a related field.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, requisitions, or searches in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience partnering with hiring managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and move candidates through the recruiting process