Human Resources Specialist

Job Location

Onsite 5 days a week - Overland Park, KS

We are seeking an experienced sourcer or recruiter with a passion for sourcing and experience in recruiting and/or sourcing hard-to-fill niche roles. Experience with engineering roles is a plus. The ideal candidate should have skills in sourcing outside of Linked In and developing creative sourcing strategies. A Linked In recruiter seat will be provided.

• Consult and conduct recruitment strategy meetings with talent acquisition partners to understand gaps in recruiting efforts and needs.
• Build long-term relationships with top talent for current and future career opportunities.
• Implement and execute strategic recruitment techniques for high volume, aged, and hard-to-fill positions.
• Use innovative sourcing techniques and leverage technology to find active and passive candidates.
• Build strong partnerships with recruiters to develop plans for key staffing initiatives.
• Post and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency across all postings.
• Source candidates through creative social media tools and develop robust networking avenues.
• Initiate contact with passive candidates for openings and maintain candidate pipelines.
• Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress.
• Recognize and assist with any situation within our business that can be assisted with HR support.
• Research market conditions and industry trends as they relate to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
• Use industry knowledge, social media sources, technical operations, and mission-focused knowledge to seek out potential candidates currently employed at peer/competitor companies.

• Bilingual Spanish highly preferred.
• Ability to identify and source candidates outside of job boards and Linked In using Boolean techniques including X-ray searching preferred.
• Comfortable monitoring key metrics and making data-driven decisions to adjust recruitment or sourcing strategies.
• Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
• Utilizing professional networks to source candidates.
• Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.
• Recruiting experience, preferably in engineering or technical roles, but open to other experiences as well.
• Full Life Cycle Recruiting, managing hiring manager relationships.