Overview

Recruitment Sourcing & Attraction Internship 2024

Your Opportunity

Be a part of the team laying the foundation for a people business that will disrupt an industry! You will learn full-cycle professional recruiting from scorecards to sourcing strategies and interviewing to screening skills.

Talent Sourcing: Learn and apply outbound search techniques to identify and engage with potential candidates online. Work closely with the Regional Talent Acquisition Team to supply engaged leads for further consideration in the interview process. Coordinate leads from programs for veterans and transitioning military members to be trained in trades; develop on-going partnership. Impact the overall technician workforce growth, a key focus metric for the entire organization, by ensuring the recruiters and hiring managers have an appropriate number of interviews weekly based on their hiring goals. Support the recruiting team in driving a culture of employee referrals through rewards, recognition, and regular communication.

Recruitment Marketing: Collaborate with the Talent Team to create local recruiting materials such as flyers, business cards, and table stands. Become proficient in A/B testing cold email messages and job ads, understanding the key motivators of our candidate profile, and gaining the attention of the right job seeker.

HCM/HRIS Technologies: Post and update job postings as needed through ATS / Job boards. Support recruiting functions by applying Best Practices to source, track and manage leads and candidates. Provide feedback in continuous improvement of recruiting metric dashboards and scorecards. 

** Providing the opportunity for conversion to a full-time career, based on a successful internship, is our goal! **

What you're good at...

• Building relationships with all types of people
• Performing to weekly and monthly goals
• Active listening and persuasion
• Using technology - Social Media platforms, Office products, (ability to learn) iCIMS and ADP
• Taking initiative and applying creative solutions to get the job done
• Taking direction from multiple managers, including those that are remote
• Understanding and respecting the importance of confidentiality

What you have...

• 3 years of an Undergraduate degree completed, preferably in a Business or Communications related course of study, and enrolled in coursework for the current semester
• A minimum of 1 year of work experience in customer/client interactive role in a professional setting
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, non-verbal, social)
• A high level of emotional maturity and situational awareness
• Significant experience using multiple social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)
• Experience with various photo editing and graphic design tools a plus (Canva)

Why Apex?

Apex is a people-driven private equity firm with a mission to elevate the trades by partnering with leading home services companies (i.e., heating, cooling, plumbing, and electrical) and growing them through better pay, better benefits, and better career opportunities. We believe that inspiring growth and fulfillment in people is the best way to build enduring businesses but first we need to find and hire our latest trades men and women. This internship will also have direct exposure to the Vice President of Partner Services for the Midwest Region who also oversees M&A, growth strategy, HR, training, and fleet.

Location: Greater Kansas City, KS Area

Schedule: Part-Time, Monday- Friday

Duration: Approximately 12 weeks, with opportunity to extend based on performance and business need

Compensation: $1,600 paid bi-weekly plus significant bonuses for each hire

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Qualifications

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, OR a lesser degree with additional relevant commiserate experience
• 5 – 10 years of prior HR Generalist (spanning all key pillars) experience required in a leadership role
• HR Certification or Micro-Credential in California Employment Law is strongly preferred
• Highly motivated, comfortable working autonomously
• Excellent skills developing and managing metrics, while keeping a People First mindset
• Ability to effectively communicate HR processes into simple solutions for non-HR employees
• Strong experience in leading / driving processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail and teamwork
• Able to operate effectively even when information may be incomplete or limited
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Improve and growth mindset - with the ability to adapt and work within budgetary constraints

Location: The Regional ES Manager/Director will work from a location within the region (California), as agreed-upon.

Compensation: A competitive compensation package will be available to the selected candidate.

Responsibilities

Key Job Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Regional President and working very closely with both the California Leadership Teams and Apex Partner Services Director of Employee Services, the Regional Employee Services (HR) Manager/Director will play a key leadership role.

Areas of impact may include:

HR Process & Administration

• Provide a Best-in-Class Onboarding experience to all incoming employees
• Build and lead a team of Employee Services specialists to support the region’s rapid growth.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Market Presidents and General Managers to execute and manage Employee Services programs and projects.
• Achieve 100% employee data accuracy in all systems, providing assurance to all key stakeholders that KPIs and reporting are accurate and consistent throughout all organizational systems.
• Lead the Risk & Safety program at the Regional Level and oversee the program in order to ensure a highly compliant and successful program.
• Partner with Apex Corporate Development and Apex HR Operations to execute highly successful M&As.
• Identify as the regional expert in California Employment Compliance in all areas of the Employee Services function.
• Ensure all employees receive all training and education required in the areas of Compliance, Employee Relations, and Risk & Safety.

Talent Management & Engagement

• Partner with Regional President, MAPs, and GMs to build and lead Employee Retention Efforts, leveraging employee surveying and Culture/Retention programming.
• Assist in building a culture of performance accountability.
• Contribute to and help manage industry leading engagement and management development training.

Business Impact, & Technology

• Become the regional expert on people technologies in the business to leverage full functionality.
• Create and align Employee Services metrics to the business.