Recruiter

Located in Redmond, WA

Salary: $31

The career opportunity:

The HR Recruiter – Transportation provides excellent customer experience for internal managers, candidates and new hires in the recruiting, hiring and onboarding processes. The person in this role ensures that every phase of the recruiting process is optimized to achieve maximum hiring and retention success. They will provide excellent service to our internal customers and will provide a welcoming and supportive environment for candidates and new hires.

 

The ideal candidate will have experience recruiting for a variety of roles and will have worked with a diverse candidate pool. Characteristics critical to success in the position include: collaboration, compassion, independent judgment, a willingness to switch gears, organizational skills, process oriented, and a commitment to customer service. The ideal candidate must have an ability to build positive working relationships with diverse groups at all levels. And the ability to make community connections to continuously build a candidate pipeline while hiring for recurring roles.

 

What you will be doing

• Coordinate full-cycle recruiting processes in collaboration with the hiring teams; including sourcing, facilitating hiring events, screening, interviewing, initiating background checks, final hiring steps, offers and onboarding. Ensure process steps are optimized and completed according to best practices.
• Collaborate with hiring team and the Kent based Recruiter to develop recruiting strategy, job ads, hiring events, job fairs, advertising/postings, and other hiring processes to assist in attracting and selecting the best candidate. Partner with hiring manager and HR team to identify business or staffing needs and trends.
• May assist in hiring other Transportation roles.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to generate a high-quality, diverse candidate pool and pipeline for recurring roles.
• Provide excellent customer service to potential candidates; ensures a positive candidate experience, respond to inquiries, troubleshoot online application issues, and follow up with candidates in a timely manner.
• Create accurate job postings for applicant tracking system (ADP), internal posting announcements and other external job boards. Will post on multiple job boards in different formats.
• Make recruiting arrangements and may travel to other sites as needed to perform recruiting or hiring tasks, including possible job fairs and hiring events.
• Screen and manage applications in an applicant tracking system (ADP). Gather all documents. Ensure applicants complete all pre-employment requirements.
• Schedule and conduct phone screen interviews and in-person or virtual intake interviews with candidates. Collaborate with hiring manager to assist in hiring decisions.
• Initiate final steps/background processes; maintain confidentiality and uses discretion.
• Complete new hire onboarding processes; prepare and complete first-day, new-hire paperwork with new employees.
• Respond to general Human Resources inquiries, requests and concerns or refers to appropriate staff; assist employees with information and interpretation of HR services, benefits, policies and procedures. Communicate with diplomacy, discretion and maintain confidentiality.
• Partner with HR team members to work towards the common goals of the HR department; assist with projects or events, share recruiting strategies and resources, utilizes ADP data to inform business decisions and provide recruiting coverage or back-up for other recruiters as necessary.
• Communicate respectfully with people regardless of age, race, gender, religion, color, national origin, marital status, the presence of any physical, sensory, or mental disability, sexual orientation, political ideology, gender identity, military status, genetic information, or any other expression of diversity.
• Maintain a professional and positive working relationship with fellow staff, clients, volunteers, donors and vendors and adheres to the Community Guidelines.
• Regular attendance and punctuality is essential to our business and to this position.

 

Your qualities:

• 2+ years of HR and/or recruiting experience. Experience sourcing and recruiting diverse candidate pools is desired. Candidates with experience recruiting for CDL Drivers, nonprofit or recurring roles/pipeline development are encouraged to apply.
• Must be able to travel to other sites as needed for recruiting or HR purposes, specifically Kent and Redmond.
• Proactive self-starter with the ability to effectively and accurately manage multiple tasks in a recruiting environment with flexibility to reset priorities as needed.
• Willingness to switch gears and try new tactics.
• Process and systems oriented.
• Must be highly organized with a keen attention to detail to complete complex processes with accuracy.
• Must be comfortable networking and building working relationships with hiring teams, candidates and external partners.
• Intermediate to advanced skills using Outlook, Teams, Zoom, SharePoint, Word, Excel and web-based data management systems.

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