The Senior Recruiter will work within the Recruitment team to assist with recruitment and sourcing activities for federal clients. The Senior Recruiter will use various channels to look for potential candidates, contact passive candidates and build talent pipelines for future hiring needs. The ideal candidate should have a true hunter mentality with an eye to recognize and cultivate candidate pipelines and relationships.
- Proactively source candidates via social media channels, websites, database mining, competitive candidate mapping, and community network building.
- Coordinate with line management to determine position requirements.
- Assist with the development and management of talent pipelines for future hiring needs.
- Maintain candidate databases.
- Assist with applicant care and communicate with past applicants regarding new job opportunities.
- Understand and drive towards sourcing activities that meet sourcing metrics while updating reports and tools to reflect inputs and progress.
- Achieve sustained performance according to agreed-upon KPIs.
- Determine applicant requirements and qualifications by reviewing job descriptions, interviewing applicants, analyzing responses, and comparing qualifications to job requirements.
- Assist with the development of reports and presentations to demonstrate the sourcing teams progress, status and updates.
- Qualify candidates for skill, cultural, and motivational fit, utilizing behavioral-based approach, and screening criteria.
- Interact with potential candidates on social media and professional networks
- Maintain communication with Recruiters and candidates during the sourcing process.
- Build job postings and post in strategic locations to attract top talent.
- Assist Recruiters to identify and prepare candidates for hiring process step completion.
- Build applicant flow and implement creative recruiting ideas to attract qualified professionals.
- Develop expertise in sourcing for niche roles.
- Align activities with the sourcing strategy (e.g. job fairs/networking venues, candidate engagement, social recruiting).
- Experience and knowledge of recruiting in the DoD industry for multiple clearance levels e.g. Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, CI & FS Polys and skills (Analyst, Cyber, Bid Data, forensics as well as core IT Skills)
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum 5 year of recruitment/sourcing experience
- Strong knowledge of Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Preferred Experience/ Qualifications
- Human Resources, Business, or related degree preferred
- Previous Experience in a federal contract recruiting environment
- Knowledge of digital and non-digital recruitment approaches
- Knowledge of competency-based interviewing techniques and methodologies
- Prior experience as full life-cycle recruiter
- Must be flexible and able to adapt to priorities
- Ability to handle confidential information
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Energetic, self-driven attitude
- Able to follow directions in a detailed manner
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective problem solving skills
- Utilize online recruitment tools and competitive websites for prospecting
- Working within a team environment and ability to work with minimal supervision and guidance is essential
- Understanding of the recruitment life-cycle process Desired Skills & Experience:
- Knowledge and usage of SilkRoad ATS
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
