Recruiting Specialist

Role:
Responsible for full-cycle recruiting and a wide range of HR operations, including managing the HR inbox, preparing monthly HR reports, supporting employee relations matters, maintaining and auditing employee files, administering employee surveys, and coordinating employee onboarding and new-hire orientation.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Recruits qualified candidates through recruiting sources, such as ATS (Applicant Tracking System), social media, and job fairs. Engage external resources such as local chambers, college job boards, to source candidates.
• Facilitate interviews of candidates along with the hiring manager for any open position. Assists hiring managers with making their hiring decisions. Presents candidate to HR Manager or HR Director for hiring approval.
• Assists with day-to-day administration of recruiting and onboarding, including pre-employment screening, onboarding process, maintaining job boards, and welcome communication. Coordination of new hire photos and issuing of employee badges/parking placards.
• Assists with new employee orientation, presenting assigned portions of HR topics.
• Responsible for administering employee surveys - 90 Day Touchbase and Exit.
• Assists with employee relations through coordination of employee events, i.e., annual service awards banquet, retiree luncheon, HR events, and any other special employee events. Responsible for employee anniversary recognition and gifts such as flowers for anniversaries or sympathy, and baby gifts.
• Crosstrain for payroll processing, payroll audit and new hire file audit.
• Helps to maintain employee files, rosters, tracking sheets, etc., for accurate record keeping and retention.
  Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Knowledge and Skills:

Experience:  One year to three years of similar or related experience.

Education:   (1) A two-year college degree, or (2) completion of a specialized certification or licensing, or (3) completion of specialized training courses conducted by vendors, or (4) job-specific skills acquired through an apprenticeship program.

Interpersonal Skills:  Work involves much personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization for the purpose of first-level conflict resolution, building relationships, and soliciting cooperation. Discussions involve a higher degree of confidentiality and discretion, requiring diplomacy and tact in communication.

Other Skills: Excellent communication is a must. Excel and PowerPoint knowledge preferred.

Physical Requirements:  Light lifting required.