Your Role

As Gensler's North Central Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist, you are committed to providing the highest quality candidate experience. You recognize the importance of investing time in candidates at all stages of their career. You are comfortable with a fast pace and can easily shift gears based on priorities. Most importantly, you love recruiting and want to work with a highly collaborative team who is passionate about what we do and the people of Gensler who are our clients.

Your prior experience recruiting within the A&E industry will be of great value at Gensler, where we are committed to providing a "white glove" experience for our candidates while sourcing and attracting the most desirable talent within our industry.

To be successful in this role, you must also be well versed in general HR policies and procedures and possess exceptional customer service skills to help guide various HR processes.

This position will be supporting our North Central Region and will be based in our Chicago office.

What You Will Do

• Partner with our HR team and senior leadership in the North Central region to define, implement and execute effective recruitment strategies

• Represent Gensler as a Brand Ambassador, marketing our firm through best-in-class recruitment technology, and social media platforms

• Manage a full-cycle recruitment process for candidates ranging from emerging talent through executive leadership; from research and sourcing through offer creation, presentation and acceptance

• Prepare and post recruitment ads internally and on industry websites

• Manage the logistics of candidate assessment and candidate presentation, providing background information to key stake holders, gathering follow-up feedback and checking references

• Advise Hiring Managers on competitive research and market trends while offering strategic solutions for recruitment during changing business trends

• Build a pipeline of targeted prospects for Gensler by developing relationships with candidates as a trusted advisor

• Maintain applicant data and status changes through the recruitment process

• Coordinate interview scheduling and follow up with our candidates, post-interview

• Support new hire onboarding and orientation activities

• Support Campus recruiting activities as needed

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience in a recruitment environment

• Fantastic memory for all things related to recruiting talent (candidates, competitors, projects, connections to the firm, etc.)

• Experience recruiting for an A&E firm preferred

• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately

• Excellent organizational skills

• Experience using an ATS, Workday preferred

• Exhibit a client service focused attitude and approach

• Team player with the ability to establish collaborative working relationships

• Able to meet competing deadlines and manage expectations

• Familiar with EEO reporting, Visas and the PERM process a plus

• Foundational understanding of human resources and recruiting

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required

• Knowledge of Adobe InDesign is desirable

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to "Well-being Week," our offices reflect our people's diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities. Our annual base salary range has been established based on local markets.

As part of the firm's commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.

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