Recruiting Assistant - Warehouse Hiring Center (Job Number: 2315101 )

Position Summary:

The Warehouse Recruiting Assistant will be responsible for assisting the Penske staffing team with finding and interviewing warehouse candidates for hourly warehouse worker positions.

In this hourly role, the recruiting assistant will work at our corporate offices in Reading, PA and remotely support operations across the United States and Canada. You will work as a part of a team who are committed to ensuring a strong support of processes around candidate sourcing, application screening, and process expediting. Source candidates using company and external resume databases. Upon finding candidates, the staffing assistant will contacting candidates via phone and email to inform them of the position, conduct a brief phone screening, and direct and assure they formally apply to the Penske job opening.

The schedule will be regular business hours Monday-Friday from 9am-5:30pm with occasional late evenings or weekends as needed to support the business. This is an office hybrid model, working 3 days in our corporate office and 2 days remote.

Job Responsibilities:

• Upon direction from a member of Penske’s Staffing team, search for new candidates matching the provided job description.

• May assist recruiter, and warehouse hiring specialist, in posting jobs via job boards, college career sites, and state workforce sites.

• Screens resumes from databases and applications from Penske’s Taleo system to identify candidates meeting minimum qualifications.

• May conduct brief phone screening conversations.

• May schedule candidate interviews with hiring managers.

• Maintains accurate records on applicant status and provides timely responses to all applicants.

• Assist in coordination of onsite hiring events and Meet & Greets for warehouse candidates.

• May assist in providing offer letters and initiating/communicating the background screening process for selected candidates.

• Other projects and tasks assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will have:

• Associate's degree equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or minimum one year related experience preferred.

• Prior demonstrated high-touch customer service and follow-up experience required.

• Candidates with prior warehouse recruiting/ recruiting support highly preferred, other general recruiting support will be considered

• Prior Taleo or other applicant tracking system experience highly preferred.

• Prior experience in mining candidate resume databases and phone screening applicants is highly preferred.

• Bilingual, fluent English/Spanish written and verbal communication a plus.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must have knowledge of Word and Excel, and must be internet savvy.

• A sense of humor is helpful, as this can be a stressful job with competing priorities at any given time.

• Qualified candidates must be effective communicators who are not afraid of the phone.

• Candidates who are highly technically savvy (internet, good with internet data research, cell phone/text messaging, etc.) are highly preferred.

Optimal candidates will have:

• Bachelor's degree or at least 3 years of equivalent work experience.

• Demonstrated internal customer service skills, including troubleshoot and problem solving experiences.

• Demonstrated strong organizational and documentation skills .

• Ability to communicate effectively both in-person and through written correspondences and presentations with candidates, peers, managers, and leadership.

• Ability to work in dynamic, fast paced environment, and keep up with a high volume of activity.

• Ability to travel locally as needed.

• Detail oriented, self-motivated, strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize.

• Excellent knowledge of Internet candidate data mining; recruiting certification preferred.

• Strong knowledge of enterprise applicant tracking systems required, prior experience with Taleo preferred.

• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job.

• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

About Penske Logistics:

Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a partnership of Penske Corporation, Penske Automotive Group and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates a premier fleet of vehicles and serves its customers from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Penske’s product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.GoPenske.com to learn more.

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Work Locations :

Reading, PA 19607

Primary Location : United States-Pennsylvania-Reading

Job : Human Resources

Penske Oracle Job (US & CA only do not edit): : PTL.Recruiting Assistant

Req ID: 2315101