Talent Acquisition Specialist

Summary:

This is a spectacular opportunity to join a stable, recession-resistant PE backed company and partner with the senior leaders to help build and guide the organization’s people and talent function in many ways from the ground up.

The company is rapidly growing and needs a driven TA professional who can bring strong organization skills, proven selection and sourcing ability, and a passion for creating enduring company cultures in an industry many overlook – the Skilled Trades. This Talent Acquisition Specialist will help optimize current practices, track and impact key TA metrics and ensure adoption of new recruiting tools with our managers and HR partners. The right business partner will understand what a best-in-class, professional organization looks like and is interested in working on building that in a very hands-on but rewarding environment.

Job Overview:

Can you have stability and high growth? Can you enjoy being in a small business environment, while also benefiting from being backed by a huge network of companies and professionals with decades of success? Can you be in a recession-resistant, truly essential business and use your recruiting and communication skills to help transform a company?

Yes, you can.

You’ll also enjoy a full suite of benefits including Medical, Dental, Life, Vision, and other insurance, an excellent match on 401k up to 4%, and the opportunity to make a difference. This role will be based as a hybrid in Kansas City Charlotte, North Carolina with occasional travel (15%) to other business locations and partner business sites.

Apex Southeast is one of the Regions under the Apex Service Partners umbrella. Apex Service Partners has built the leading national platform in the trades industry to provide world-class residential service. The Southeast Region, made up of several businesses across six states.

This is the “key, core” talent acquisition role and tightly aligns to one, possibly more Market Areas. The Specialist will continuously execute strategies and tactics to autonomously drive attraction, sourcing, interviewing, and hiring of a world class workforce in the skilled trades, specifically technicians and management in North Carolina. This professional will also work with trade leaders to develop their ability to select/retain great people. Finally, the recruiting specialist will work with local operators to increase brand awareness as an “Employer of Choice” in the market through marketing and community involvement, opening new talent pools.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Regional Talent Acquisition Director, and working very closely with our regional senior leaders, the TA Specialist will impact:
• (70%) Sourcing: Develop and lead all sourcing for Technician hires
• Establish and upgrade recruiting and hiring practices
• Build a system capable of hiring hundreds annually
• (10%) Metrics: Track and competitively impact people and business numbers
• Assist in developing forecasts for all roles
• Analyze and impact monthly and annual reporting by market and trade
• Establish diversity recruiting program focused on outcomes
• Assist in building culture of performance accountability
• (15%) Technology: Help implement scalable Talent Technology
• Ensure adoption and regular use of our ATS and other recruiting tools (e.g. CRM)
• Bi-monthly refresh of job ads across all mediums: SEO; continual testing of job ads
• Apply technology to automate and bring efficiencies to the end-to-end recruiting process
• (5%) Brand Development: Contribute toward being an ""Employer of Choice"" working on various people projects
• Assist with talent collateral creation, branding, social postings and/or content
• Contribute feedback on employer brand as a system and in market specifics

Candidate Requirements:

A successful candidate will have the following criteria & competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
• 2-4 years of prior high-volume recruiting experience
• Highly motivated by personal performance targets, intensely driven to exceed goals
• Capable of analyzing workflow metrics and presenting actionable recommendations
• Strong ability to communicate and differentiate our employers from others; respects the trades
• Intensely hands on & scrappy, but able to see the strategic vision of quintupling our business and being best in the industry
• Excellent & disciplined, time management and organizational skills capable to managing quickly shifting priorities

Benefits:

• Health, dental, vision insurance
• 401k Match Roth IRA
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holiday
• Career Advance Opportunities & much more

Compensation

A competitive base salary plus bonus and incentives