Senior Technical Recruiter

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Location:

For this role, you will need to be located in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the ability to work in-office.

About the Role:
We’re hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to join our team at WGU! In this role, you’ll work closely with technical hiring managers to develop and execute effective recruiting strategies, ensuring we attract and hire top technical talent to support our growth. You’ll take the lead on complex recruitment projects, source for specialized and niche roles, and influence hiring decisions that align with our organizational goals. If you’re ready to bring your expertise in candidate experience and talent strategy to a collaborative and mission-driven team, we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Do:

• Develop and implement effective recruiting strategies for technical roles.

• Execute end-to-end recruitment processes across diverse functions and levels.

• Cultivate impactful relationships, exerts influence, provides guidance, and seamlessly communicates across organizational levels.

• Collaborate with various People & Talent colleagues on recruiting and staffing needs.

• Conduct consultative intake meetings, ensuring proactive communication with timely status updates, assesses challenges and drives solution-oriented results.

• Source talent to meet staffing requirements.

• Utilize external market data, engages with vendors, leverages diverse sourcing channels, and embraces technology to build and sustain external talent pipelines.

• Identify opportunities for refining recruitment processes and optimizing the use of sourcing tools.

• Thrive in a performance-driven environment.

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities You'll Need:

• Working knowledge of full cycle recruiting

• Knowledge of human resource laws and regulations, including EEO requirements

• Strong decision-making skills

• Excellent oral and written communications skills

• Knowledge and experience using sourcing tools.

• Effective negotiation and influencing skills.

• Ability to apply mature and discrete thinking/problem solving/decision-making and actions in a variety of situations.

• Working knowledge of recruiting and sourcing tools, including ATS, job boards, LinkedIn, etc.

• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Outlook to with scheduling/managing calendars.

• Demonstrated ability to build solid relationships across the University.

• Ability to utilize industry trends to develop innovative recruiting practices and strategies.

• Understanding of compensation philosophies and job leveling.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources Management, or a related field

• 4 years of progressive full cycle recruitment experience, specializing in a diverse range of roles, levels, and complexity.

• 1 year of experience recruiting for technical roles.

• Experience sourcing passive candidates and leveraging sourcing tools.

• Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday ATS

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