Inside Student Recruiter

As an Inside Student Recruiter at Arclabs Welding School, your role is to connect individuals primarily adult learners and non-traditional students—with hands-on career training in the welding industry. You'll play a vital part in helping people take the next step toward a rewarding career by guiding them through the admissions process with empathy, professionalism, and a strong understanding of our programs.

Inside recruiters work primarily from campus and focus on enrolling individuals who are not current-year high school graduates, including working adults, career changers, veterans, and those seeking a second chance at a skilled trade career.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the first point of contact for adult and non-traditional prospective students.
• Conduct phone calls, campus tours, and admissions interviews to evaluate applicants' interests and explain Arclabs’ program offerings.
• Guide prospective students through the enrollment process—including application steps, financial aid referrals, and preparation for start dates.
• Follow up with prospective students via phone, text, email, and in-person meetings to maintain engagement and encourage enrollment.
• Represent Arclabs at job fairs, workforce development meetings, and adult education outreach events when needed.
• Coordinate appointments and referrals with SC Works, Adult Education Centers, Veterans Affairs, and similar community agencies.
• Assist the Campus Director in preparing for and scheduling outreach events and meetings with external partners.
• Maintain accurate documentation in the CRM system and provide weekly reports on leads, conversions, and outreach activities.
• Uphold ethical recruiting standards and comply with ACCET accreditation and Arclabs policies.
• Meet or exceed individual enrollment targets and contribute to campus enrollment goals.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education

•       Bachelor's degree preferred.

•       An equivalent combination of relevant education, admissions experience, recruiting experience, sales experience, and demonstrated performance may be considered.

Experience

•       Minimum of three (3) years of successful experience in admissions, student recruitment, business development, sales, or a related field preferred.

•       Demonstrated history of achieving or exceeding enrollment, sales, recruitment, or performance goals.

•       Previous experience in postsecondary education, career education, technical education, or skilled-trades education preferred.

•       Previous experience coaching, training, mentoring, or providing functional leadership to other employees strongly preferred.

•       Experience working with CRM systems and managing prospective student or customer pipelines required.

Required KnowledgeSkills & Abilities.

•     Strong working knowledge of CRM systems, lead management, reporting, and pipeline management.

•     Demonstrated success presenting sales, recruitment, training, or educational information.

•     Ability to motivate and influence prospective students while maintaining professional and ethical recruitment practices.

•     Ability to coach, train, mentor, and provide constructive feedback to recruitment staff.

•     Ability to identify early performance concerns and assist employees with developing practical solutions.

•     Strong analytical skills with the ability to review recruitment metrics, dashboards, and reports.

•     Strong organizational and time-management skills.

•     Effective written and verbal communication skills.

•     Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of individuals and demonstrate respect for diverse backgrounds and experiences.

•     Self-motivated and results-oriented with the ability to independently manage recruitment and business-development responsibilities.

•     Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, events, and prospective student pipelines simultaneously.

•     Ability to travel locally and regionally and work a varied schedule, including evenings and weekends when required.

•     Ability to represent ArcLabs Welding School professionally within the school and throughout the community.

•     Ability to maintain a positive attitude and contribute to a healthy, collaborative, accountable, and performance-driven workplace culture.

•     Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle student and prospective student information.

Preferred Qualifications

•       Bilingual English/Spanish capability strongly preferred.

•       Experience in career-school, vocational-school, technical-school, or postsecondary admissions.

•       Prior experience providing training, mentoring, or leadership to admissions or recruitment professionals.

•       Experience coordinating recruiting events, open houses, career fairs, workshops, or community outreach programs.

•       Experience with CRM reporting, dashboards, lead assignment, duplicate-record management, and data analysis.

•       Experience developing business-to-business partnerships and community referral relationships.

•       Experience creating approved photography, video, or social-media content for recruitment or organizational promotion.

Other Requirements

•       Must be able to work occasional evenings and weekends to support prospective student appointments, Open Houses, Welding Workshops, career fairs, community events, and other recruitment activities.

•       Must be able to travel throughout the assigned recruitment territory and to other ArcLabs locations or events as required.

•       A valid driver's license may be required when travel is an essential function of the assigned territory.

•     Must successfully complete a background check.

•     Must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening.