Sr. Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist

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SUMMARY

The SR. Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist performs full lifecycle recruiting while maintaining excellent relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and the community at-large. A wide degree of creativity, near- and long-term recruiting vision, business understanding, and personal organization is required. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Provides exceptional client service and full lifecycle recruiting within CNI.

Writes, completes and details search assignments (client engagement documents). Ensures an understanding of job duties responsibilities, business requirements and competencies necessary to be successful in the position. Utilizes these documents to create advertising and sourcing strategies. 

Develops and maintains strong working relationships with CNI leaders, vendors, community organizations and other team members to create a partnership that yields success, predictable results and credibility.

Develops and maintains a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates.

Responsible for actively advocating diversity recruitment. Creates and fosters relationships with colleges and diverse professional organizations in order to attract and recruit alumni and to develop a diverse candidate pool.

Reviews resumes and credentials for appropriateness of skills, experience and knowledge in relation to position requirements.

Represents CNI in a professional manner and provides complete and accurate position information to candidates. 

Pre-screens candidates to ensure minimum qualifications are met.

Develops a list of competency-based interview questions for hiring managers, and reviews questions with the interview team.

Coordinates all communication with candidates.

Prepares candidates for interviewing with specific hiring managers by providing detailed information on the company, our business strategy, department background, job descriptions, and expectation-setting.

Organizes, leads and documents post-interview debrief/feedback and post-mortems with interview teams and candidates.

Reviews the hiring manager’s interview performance with each candidate and takes appropriate action when warranted.

Performs detailed reference checking and/or reference analysis on selected candidates and reviews results with hiring managers.

Conducts follow-up calls and quality-improvement studies with hiring managers and new hires.

Develops and constructs candidate offers based on market research and department equity. 

Responsible for “selling” the Total Value of becoming a CNI employee to all potential candidates and new hires.

Maintains accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers interactions, and other recruiting activities to ensure a safe and thorough audit if required. Ensures all OFCCP compliance regulations are being met.

Initiates and maintains excellent working relations within the CNI Human Resources organization.

Uses effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed, appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts verbally and in written form, and timelines.

Works cooperatively with all members of the staffing team to develop and implement staffing plans and activities.

Visits all hiring-manager departments to develop a thorough understanding of the department culture and uses that understanding to help candidates fully understand the opportunity.

Participates in the development of ongoing creative and cost-effective sourcing strategies.

Develops an effective pipeline of key talent potentially available for immediate hire as succession planning needs dictate.

Stays informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques in order to be competitive in State-of-the-Art recruiting practices.

Responsible for aiding in own self-development by being available and receptive to all training made available by the company.

Plans daily activities within the guidelines of company policy, job description and supervisor’s instruction in such a way as to maximize personal output. 

Responsible for keeping own immediate work area in a neat and orderly condition to ensure safety of self and coworkers. Will report any unsafe conditions and/or practices to the appropriate supervisor and human resources. Will immediately correct any unsafe conditions to the best of own ability.