Published: Jan 15, 2025 – The Recruiting Director oversees the HR function, ensuring recruitment, retention, compliance, and core objectives are effectively achieved while managing and mentoring HR team members. This position develops and implements recruitment strategies to attract top talent, build diverse teams, and maintain consistent policies and processes across the organization. The director drives strategic initiatives for talent acquisition, forecasts staffing needs, and collaborates with leadership to align hiring plans with organizational goals.

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1. Recruiting Director, Prime Talent Solutions, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Responsible for effective sourcing strategies to achieve recruiting goals.
- Drive innovative and creative talent strategies, using social media and other related platforms to engage candidates.
- Execute strategy and plans focused on identifying outstanding talent.
- Manage university relations and networks in the community and with industry and affinity groups to build employment brand recognition.
- Communicate Employee Value Proposition to candidates and the marketplace.
- Identify and assess a diverse candidate pool.
- Manage candidates through the full recruiting cycle
- Provide regular updates to hiring managers and business leaders
- Creates compelling offers, closes candidates, and provides a seamless handover to onboarding.
- Responsible for oversight of the launch of the applicant tracking system (ATS), recruiting page, and social media platforms to attract talent.
- Utilizes multiple tools and approaches to identify the best candidates, including ATS and third-party products e.g. LinkedIn.
- Conducts thorough interviews and phone screens to assess both a technical baseline as well as the ability to be successful in the Pareto environment.
- Administer Culture Index and screen results.
- Implement action plans based on weekly reporting and metrics.
- Track candidate progress and provide regular reporting to the VP of People, CFO, and hiring managers.
- Focus on providing a great candidate experience at every opportunity.
Skills on Resume:
- Sourcing Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Social Media Engagement (Hard Skills)
- Talent Assessment (Hard Skills)
- University Relations (Soft Skills)
- Candidate Communication (Soft Skills)
- Candidate Screening (Hard Skills)
- ATS Management (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Experience (Soft Skills)
2. Recruiting Director, Elevate Workforce Solutions, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Follow the approved high-volume recruitment process for improved time to fill and Non-Billable Overtime (NBOT) and turnover reduction
- Ensure the recruiting team achieves weekly hiring targets by identifying and screening qualified talent
- Use creative sourcing tactics every week to drive applicant flow
- Deploy college, Diversity, Military, and other targeted recruiting tactics
- Set community sources up and provide hires consistently
- Found and utilized Wage Subsidy programs as appropriate
- Pull weekly recruitment reports from iCIMS and use them as a management tool to target critical accounts and recruitment efforts
- Hire and train new recruiters and recruitment support staff appropriately
- Ensure recruiters comply with contracts, state licensing, OFCCP, and other regulatory requirements related to recruitment
- Work with Operational leadership to provide guidance and guidelines to ensure hiring managers are participating in iCIMS and the process in a timely and appropriate manner
- Manage regional recruitment budget to ensure appropriate advertising methods are used for the best ROI
- Work in partnership with Operations to manage clients in areas related to recruitment/retention activities:
- Participate in sales presentations (when appropriate)
- Assist in managing client expectations around recruitment challenges
- Ensure client concerns are addressed, acted on, and improved in a reasonable time frame
Skills on Resume:
- Recruitment Process (Hard Skills)
- Talent Screening (Hard Skills)
- Sourcing Tactics (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Recruiting (Hard Skills)
- Recruitment Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Recruiter Training (Soft Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
3. Recruiting Director, Apex Hiring Strategies, Fayetteville, AR
Job Summary:
- Partner with the franchise community to build the infrastructure to support current and future client needs
- Lead change management, communication, and training strategy to effectively implement recruiting best practices
- Continue to develop the Spherion way of recruiting, build upon and evolve methodologies and techniques
- Ensure that all recruiting resources are trained, stay informed of developments, and are capable of executing both basic and advanced recruiting techniques
- Use business and financial acumen to provide timely and relevant insights, data, and analysis to support decision-making
- Link business decisions to data and financial results and evaluate success and failures
- Develop success measures, define goals, and achieve those goals in alignment with the Spherion leadership team
- Leverage centralized partners to increase recruiting bandwidth and improve efficiency
- Evolve the end-to-end branch recruiting process to ensure best-in-class recruiting techniques and technologies are executed across the enterprise
- Build, implement, and drive client-specific delivery plans in alignment with Spherion leadership
- Establish the initial recruiting strategies for a new office and new franchisee launch
- Partner with local leadership to ensure appropriate delivery strategy to support individual market needs
- Partner with Spherion marketing to implement local digital recruiting strategies
Skills on Resume:
- Franchise Partnerships (Soft Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- Recruiting Methodologies (Hard Skills)
- Resource Training (Soft Skills)
- Business Acumen (Hard Skills)
- Success Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Recruiting Process Evolution (Hard Skills)
- Client Delivery Plans (Hard Skills)
4. Recruiting Director, Summit Recruitment Partners, Charleston, WV
Job Summary:
- Leads the development of a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy
- Evaluate recruiting efforts to continually improve the process and quality of talent brought into the organization
- Partners with HR and key business leaders in developing sourcing plans and determining hiring requirements
- Partners with the corporate Talent Acquisition team to identify and select media, technological, and social solutions that support Charter’s talent acquisition strategy
- Evaluate recruiting tactics and collaterals that support Charter’s employment brand
- Creates and provides standardized reporting on the status of requisitions
- Provides leadership guidance and oversight to the screening and selection processes in evaluating potential candidates (including both experienced and campus hires)
- Evaluate recruiting resources and recommend solutions that would better utilize the recruiting demands of the organization
- Designs and implements metrics that evaluate all talent acquisition programs and initiatives
- Oversees the development and implementation of diversity recruitment strategies
- Understand the affirmative action goals for the organization and initiate programs that attract candidates that will meet those objectives
- Oversees compliance with all regulations that impact the hiring and selection process
- Ensures consistent corporate image throughout recruiting campaigns
- Conduct in-depth screens and assess potential technical candidates for the level of interest, qualifications, and compensation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support improvements and best practices and remain current on emerging industry trends
Skills on Resume:
- Talent Acquisition Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Recruiting Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Sourcing Plan Development (Soft Skills)
- Media and Tech Solutions (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Screening (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Recruitment (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Industry Trends (Soft Skills)
5. Senior Recruiting Director, Pioneer Talent Group, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Lead and develop a geographically diverse, high-performing recruiting team
- Accountable for the overall management and leadership of recruiting processes, tools, systems and training necessary to support the recruiting function
- Optimize recruiting tools and practices, to ensure compliance, consistency, and integrity
- Consult with leaders of all levels to guide recruiting strategies and practices, coach managers where needed to think differently about the talent pool and the talent strategy
- Partner with stakeholders to determine recruiting priorities, demand, and capacity
- Provide leadership, training, and guidance related to job creation, interviewing best practices, offer negotiations, sourcing, and workforce planning
- Ensure outstanding candidate experience and an exceptional talent acquisition process
- Identify and develop relevant recruitment metrics, utilizing dashboards to track performance, create recruiting reports, and inform business planning
- Lead innovative sourcing strategies to attract top talent for executive searches, principal technical talent, high-priority requisitions, and roles with extremely limited market supply
- Partner on the implementation of the managed service providers and streamline the use of contingent hiring services
- Develop and expand applicant sourcing for all roles
- Direct the efforts of agencies and search firms
- Partner internally to build Blue’s employment brand
- Conduct District Staff meetings every week
- Manage and inspire the Recruiting team to deliver results while effectively communicating all critical dimensions of staffing business plans with leadership teams and support organizations
Skills on Resume:
- Recruiting Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Recruiting Process Management (Hard Skills)
- Recruiting Tools Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Candidate Experience (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Sourcing Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Employment Brand Development (Soft Skills)
6. Recruiting Director, Harmony Staffing Services, Greenville, SC
Job Summary:
- Establish and execute strategy to reach company hiring goals
- Hire and build high-performing teams and develop a team culture of developing and growing ICs and leaders over time
- Coach team to create and foster high-touch relationships with active and passive candidates, as well as hiring managers
- Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
- Ensure diversity in hiring is a priority
- Contribute to and lead the team to achieve quarterly goals
- Keep a recruiting process fast, efficient, and human at all stages, revising process when needed and adapting to market shifts
- Contribute to growing other leaders throughout the organization through coaching, mentoring, and setting the bar for organizational and principled leadership
- Facilitate shared accountability with the business and hiring managers working with partners
- Plan and organize headcount and hiring strategies against seasonality and bandwidth
- Use funnel metrics that impact the business to drive actions and change management for the business
- Maintain strong relationships with business leaders and establish relationships with new partners and opportunities
- Source, analyze, and identify candidates, attract and hire the highest level of talent, and implement innovative sourcing techniques to build relationships
Skills on Resume:
- Hiring Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Candidate Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Diversity Hiring (Hard Skills)
- Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Development (Soft Skills)
- Resource Planning (Hard Skills)
- Innovative Sourcing (Hard Skills)
7. Recruiting Director, Visionary Workforce Agency, Topeka, KS
Job Summary:
- Manage and direct of team of professional recruiters.
- Provide comprehensive recruiting updates (MBRs/presentations), metrics, and reporting capability to drive effective communications, processes, and outcomes to achieve expected staffing and hiring.
- As a subject matter expert in professional recruiting, serve as a credible and valuable resource to senior executives
- Conduct needs analysis, define recruiting strategy, and drive consistent execution.
- Oversee the use of retained and contingent search firms
- Ensure deliverables and accountabilities are established
- Maintain strong relationships with firms in meeting company standards for service, and managing cost.
- Interface with a range of internal and external stakeholders on immigration issues and activities
- Effectively provide liaison communications between candidates and the company’s Immigration support team in HR.
- Develop impactful sourcing strategies and provide recruiting expertise around the use of social networking, best practice recruiting technology, tools, and resources.
- Effectively monitor and report ongoing recruiting activities through the disciplined use of the Applicant Tracking System
- Ensure data integrity for metrics/reporting
- Ensure a coordinated reporting and analytics communication process with HRBPs and senior business leaders.
Skills on Resume:
- Team Management (Soft Skills)
- Recruiting Metrics and Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Subject Matter Expertise (Soft Skills)
- Recruiting Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Search Firm Management (Hard Skills)
- Immigration Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Sourcing Strategies (Hard Skills)
- Data Integrity (Hard Skills)
8. Recruiting Director, Momentum HR Solutions, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Assume overall leadership of the HR function and work closely with the COO, CEO, and other department heads
- Ensure core HR Department objectives around recruitment, retention, compliance, and more are met
- Develop and set new objectives and manage projects and other ad hoc initiatives within the HR Department
- Lead recruitment of new team members.
- Recruitment will focus on entry-level operational roles within harvesting, packing, maintenance, sanitation, and other departments
- Manage direct and shared reports within the HR department (1 – 3 individuals presently)
- Oversee ongoing and day-to-day work within the HR department in coordination with other HR team members (administration, record keeping, compliance, resolution of issues/ problems that arise)
- Hold the recruiter team accountable for understanding and complying with individual contract requirements
- Grow, develop, and mentor the MasterClass recruiting team in a fast-paced environment.
- Partner closely with all levels of the organization in hiring and recruitment plans.
- Develop a recruitment strategy that enables the company to attract the best talent and build a high-performing diverse team.
- Drive and implement consistent and trusted recruitment policies, processes, and reporting across the organization.
- Serve as a key contact for recruitment and consult best practices for the entire recruitment lifecycle and strategic talent acquisition
- Manage strategic initiatives for recruiting talent in the organization and forecast and develop plans for key staffing initiatives
Skills on Resume:
- HR Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Team Development (Soft Skills)
- Recruitment Process Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Talent Acquisition (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)