What are the responsibilities and job description for the Professional Recruiter Candidate Recruitment position at The VET Recruiter?
Job description
Professional Recruiter / Candidate Recruitment (Candidate-Focused Role)
100% Recruiting. Zero Client Hunting.
Do you enjoy connecting with people, solving problems, and being rewarded for your results? Join our search and recruiting firm where relationships matter, performance is recognized, and your success directly impacts your income.
Are you interested in beginning your career as a professional recruiter? Or are you an experienced recruiter who loves finding great people but is tired of the full-desk, hustle, client chasing?
This role is for you if you love finding great people without the full-desk, client chasing.
We are looking for a sharp, curious, candidate-obsessed recruiter who wants to spend their time doing what they do best: sourcing, engaging, and qualifying top-tier talent.
What Makes This Role Different
Your sole focus: building exceptional candidate pipelines for our firms searches.
What You’ll Do
- Proactively source and recruit top talent through networking, databases, LinkedIn, referrals, and creative outreach strategies
- Identify, assess, and engage passive talent (the kind everyone else misses)
- Conduct candidate interviews and pre-screens
- Build long-term relationships with high-caliber professionals
- Match candidates with roles that fit their skills and goals
- Coach candidates through interviews and career decisions
- Partner closely with a senior recruiter to support active searches
- Keep candidate data organized and current in the ATS/CRM
- Represent searches and opportunities with professionalism, discretion, and credibility
- Support offer negotiations and successful placements
- Deliver exceptional client results
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or relevant skills and experience
- Self-starter with grit, drive, and resilience
- Engaging personality. You have never met a stranger.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship-building skills (you know how to start conversations)
- Comfortable with phone calls and outreach
- Professional, outgoing, and service-oriented mindset
- High integrity and strong work ethic
- High attention to detail and follow-through
- Self-motivated, organized, and able to manage multiple searches at once
- Someone who genuinely enjoys the research relationship side of recruiting
- Ability to function successfully in a fast-paced environment
- This is an in office position Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Why This Role
- You get to recruit full-time
- Work on meaningful, high-impact searches
- Clear expectations and a focused role
- Opportunity to deepen your recruiting expertise and grow within the firm
- Collaborative, supportive environment
Compensation
- Competitive base compensation with paid training
- Performance incentives tied to recruiting results
- Your earning potential is directly tied to your effort, consistency, and results.
- Unlimited earning potential