Sourcer
Location: Overland Park, KS (Hybrid)
Duration: 5 months with possible extension. This is a contract position to cover a maternity leave. Could get extended.
Manager Notes:
Looking for an experienced sourcer or recruiter with a passion for sourcing and experience recruiting and/or sourcing hard-to-fill niche roles.
Someone with experience working on engineering roles is a plus.
Skills sourcing outside of LinkedIn and developing sourcing strategies is highly preferred.
We want someone who can get creative. We will be giving them a LI recruiter seat.
We are looking for someone with a sales and marketing mindset who can “sell” career opportunities to passive candidates via email, phone, and various social media platforms.
Looking for someone who stays up to date on sourcing techniques and enjoys continuous learning in this space.
Key Responsibilities:
Consult and conduct recruitment strategy meetings with talent acquisition partners to understand gaps in recruiting efforts and needs
Build long term relationships with top talent for current and future career opportunities
Implement and execute strategic recruitment techniques for high volume, aged and hard to fill positions
Use innovative sourcing techniques and leverage technology to find active and passive candidates
Build strong partnerships with recruiters to develop plans for key staffing initiatives
Post and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency across all postings
Source candidates through creative social media tools and developing robust networking avenues
Initiate contact with passive candidates for openings and maintaining candidate pipelines
Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress
Recognize and assist with any situation within our business that can be assisted with HR support
Researching market conditions and industry trends as they relate to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
Using industry knowledge, social media sources, Technical Operations, and mission-focused knowledge to seek out potential candidates that may be currently employed at peer/competitor companies, and successfully identify candidates
Skills:
Ability to identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching preferred.
Comfortable monitoring key metrics and making data driven decisions in respect to adjusting recruitment or sourcing strategies
Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
Utilizing professional networks to source candidates
Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
Recruiting experience, preferably in engineering or technical roles but open to other experiences also
Full Life Cycle Recruiting, managing hiring manager relationships
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of talent sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably specializing in the recruitment of engineers within the domains of water, wastewater treatment plants, utilities, power generation, storage, transmission, and/or distribution. Candidates with a background in technical recruitment or other recruitment specializations may also be considered. Agency recruitment background is a plus.
Ability to quickly learn candidate profiles and identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching in a fast-paced changing environment. Experience designing recruiting strategies a plus.