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Thursday, August 28, 2014

[JIMSJOBS] Contract Sr. Recruiter - Platteville, WI / Rockford, IL

Contract Sr. Recruiter - Platteville, WI / Rockford, IL

Are you passionate about the recruiting profession and the impact you can make on the organizations you support? Are you the one that loves at the "hunt" and is a top producer at finding both passive and active candidates? Do you know how to fully assess and present to hiring managers and then close candidates? Are you an energetic results-oriented person that likes working in contract roles? If so, we want to talk to you.

Search Wizards is a leading global provider of Recruitment Solutions. Founded in 2000, we have successfully partnered with both Fortune 500 and Emerging Growth companies. Our team of recruiting and sourcing consultants provide expertise in core recruiting functions including: competitive intelligence, passive talent pipelining, full lifecycle recruiting, and active sourcing. Search Wizards has a proven formula for successfully providing their clients with access to the top talent by creating custom programs that offer flexibility, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

We currently have a very exciting contract opportunity available for a Sr Recruiter available to work in Platteville, WI and Rockford, IL. This position will start as a 3-6 month contract with the potential to extend.

The candidate must be able to successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all customer SLAs. They have a reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation, client/account management, and organization, possess strong verbal and written communication skills, have an ability to prioritize their time, demonstrate push back and a sense of urgency, and understand the value of providing amazing customer service. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done. The best candidates will draw on extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and functional areas of the business, forging dynamic relationships with business leaders, hiring managers and HR business partners.

Core Responsibilities:

Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.

Must be able to understand how to recruit passive candidates and understand their motivation.

Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.

Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within our clients mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.

Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.

Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting.
Experience sourcing software engineering and electrical engineers in a corporate environment, preferably for the development.

Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.

ATS experience with sourcing, tracking and managing candidates

MS Office - including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.

Strong communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills.

Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.

Self-sufficient.

Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.

Possess strong analytic skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.