Recruiter

Sequoia Financial Group is a growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), headquartered in Northeast Ohio, offering financial planning and wealth management services. At Sequoia, we exist with a singular purpose: to enrich lives. Our values define how we behave and guide us through the pursuit of our purpose to enrich lives. At Sequoia, our core values are:

• Integrity. We act in the best interests of others by providing an honest, consistent experience for our clients and team.
• Passion. We pursue our full potential, seeking to continually enhance and evolve our ability to serve our clients and team.
• Teamwork. We subordinate our egos to work together for the benefit of our clients.
  
  

Our promise to team members is that you will grow with us. From experienced advisors to new college grads to transitioning principals, every team member will find Sequoia a place to refine their professional mission, move into new opportunities, go deeper, and lead further. We are built to help you build a career here as a long-term contributor in our work to enrich lives for generations.

At Sequoia, our people are our most important resource. We’re looking for a highly skilled recruiter to become one of them, and to help us find them. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in recruitment, with knowledge of screening, interviewing, and hiring practices. If you have a passion for finding untapped talent, driving company growth, and helping individuals find promising careers, we want to hear from you.

Objectives of this Role

• Work closely with managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company’s hiring needs for each position and meet competitive hiring goals and expectations.
• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping management find, hire, and retain quality talent.
• Grow and foster high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent to pull from as new positions open.
• Continuously design, refine, and implement innovative recruiting strategies.
• Stay active with job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create, and release job descriptions and announcements.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Work and form relationships with internal management teams to understand departments their hiring needs.
• Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and recruiting strategies to find quality candidates.
• Assist with creation and promotion of employment branding initiatives, including maintenance of the company careers site alongside our marketing team.
• Maintain behavioral based interview guides and prepare hiring managers to leverage interview questions for each interview.
• Screen resumes and prospects, qualify, interview, and manage candidates throughout interview process from prepping before interviews to assisting with final offer negotiation.
• Follow up on interview process status and update records in internal systems (ADP).
• Maintain offer letter templates and facilitate creation of offers.
  
  

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years’ experience in recruitment.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit passive candidates and quickly learn financial services industry.
• Knowledge of various compensation plans and ability to explain compensation to candidates.
• Seasoned professional with ability to develop rapport with senior level candidates.
• Proven experience conducting various types of interviews (i.e., phone, video, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge of job boards/internet search, HR recruiting platforms and candidate management systems.
• Must possess strong organizational skills, including the ability to handle multiple tasks with minimal oversight while meeting deadlines and maintaining attention to detail.
• Enjoys a fast-paced recruiting environment managing 7-12 open roles at a time in a team environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in recruiting financial professionals (banking, brokerage, RIA)
• Desire to grow professionally and become part of a rapidly growing financial services organization
• LinkedIn Recruiter knowledge
• Knowledge of ADP Recruiting platform