Recruiter, Talent Acquisition

Summary:

• Duration: 3 months
• Location: Fort Worth, TX
• Work Mode: Onsite

Responsibilities:

• Ensure company roles are staffed for operational readiness
• Partner with multiple hiring managers to understand their staffing needs
• Travel to domestic locations to attend hiring events multiple times a month, sometimes on weekends
• Conduct thorough intake sessions, clarifying staffing needs and responsibilities, ensuring job descriptions reflect accurate knowledge, skills, and abilities required
• Proactively source talent using various techniques, such as job boards, social media, and networking resources
• Act as a resource to hiring managers on conducting behavioral interviewing, and facilitate selection process and discussion to ensure effective, legal interviewing practices
• Manage positive internal and external applicant experience throughout the recruitment process
• Influence overall hiring process to achieve timeliness and agreements
• Respond to talent acquisition needs and inquiries from business leaders, hiring managers, TA leadership, etc.
• Provide hiring managers with accurate and timely updates on applicant activity, track talent acquisition metrics, and report trends and issues to TA leadership, providing recommendations for improvement
• Maintain up-to-date applicant records in the applicant tracking system for accurate reporting and analysis
• Maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with business, hiring managers, and other talent acquisition functions
• Closely collaborate with third-party vendors involved in hiring to provide guidance and/or clarification on union contracts, validation of pay scales, follow-up on requisition statuses, and process approvals
• Conduct recurrent business calls with leaders to discuss high-volume hiring, including strategy and updates
• Maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with Legal, Labor team, and other stakeholders in the recruiting process

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience/training
• At least 2 years of recent experience in a recruiting function
• Experience with recruiting metrics, SLA, and KPIs
• Experience sourcing for niche roles using LinkedIn Recruiter
• Experience with SuccessFactors or other large enterprise ATS systems (Taleo, iCIMS, etc.)
• Airline experience

Preferred Skills:

• High-volume recruiting experience, especially in a unionized environment
• Experience conducting competency-based interviews
• Reporting experience relative to Talent Acquisition performance and metrics
• Experience collaborating with RPO partner(s)
• Experience organizing and conducting hiring events
• Excellent relationship management skills, ability to establish credibility, and partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk, and plans for actions
• Ability to demonstrate a strong customer orientation and influencing skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of employment law and corporate recruitment practices
• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to think strategically; creative and innovative thinking skills, and the ability to exercise sound judgment
• Knowledge of workforce planning (forecast, identify specific needs, skills, locations, and behaviors) is a plus