Supports surge hiring by managing requisitions, sourcing candidates, conducting prescreen interviews, evaluating qualifications, coordinating hiring manager communications, and completing onboarding. Builds talent pipelines through job boards, community organizations, colleges, recruiters, and online channels. Maintains candidate relationships, communicates role expectations, verifies references, and ensures hiring processes are completed accurately and on time.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Temporary Staffing Specialist
The Staffing Specialist role will support the field, corporate office, and distribution center hiring managers by managing requisitions within the Applicant Tracking System; sourcing candidates for open positions using active and passive recruiting techniques; and moving candidates through the hiring and onboarding process. The ideal candidate is a self-starter; has strong interpersonal skills; effective oral and written communication skills; has knowledge of recruitment and HR procedures with an ability to be detail oriented and highly organized. This position will be temporary to assist with surge hiring.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Drives the candidate management process with hiring manager
- Source prospective candidates using Applicant Tracking System, job boards and community based organizations
- Builds applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, and internet sites; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport
- Attracts applicants by placing job advertisements; contacting recruiters, using newsgroups and job sites
- Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; comparing qualifications to job requirements
- Reviews resumes for appropriate skill sets to qualify candidates
- Conducts behavior based pre-screen interviews via the telephone daily
- Evaluates candidates against job requirements, engages candidate in the opportunity and presents qualified candidates to the Hiring Manager
- Clearly communicates expectations of the position to the candidate
- Manages the hiring process for selected candidates
- Ensures onboarding process is completely properly and timely
- Understand and demonstrate safe work practices at all times to ensure a safe work environment.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures.
- Complete special projects and other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to work with all levels of staff and management
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple searches, hiring managers, and projects simultaneously
- Strong negotiation skills and an ability to influence others
- Good interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy in work
- Service-oriented with a history of building excellent customer and candidate relationships
Experience and Credentials
- High School Diploma or GED
- Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers
- Experience using social media and other online methods to develop talent pipelines a plus
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