Contract Recruiter

Accelerate priority hiring with a contract recruiting role built around disciplined sourcing, consultative partnerships, and a strong candidate experience. You’ll help deliver timely, diverse, and qualified candidate slates that support confident hiring decisions, while keeping recruiting data accurate and actionable throughout each search.

What you’ll do

• Deliver qualified, interview-ready candidate slates for assigned requisitions within agreed timelines.
• Convert priority searches into accepted offers that align with role requirements, compensation parameters, and business needs.
• Maintain hiring quality by validating experience, capabilities, motivation, and organizational fit before candidates are presented.
• Build targeted pipelines for recurring, specialized, and hard-to-fill roles using multiple sourcing channels.
• Provide market insights on talent availability, competitor activity, location, and compensation to strengthen search strategy.
• Increase access to underrepresented and passive talent through intentional outreach and inclusive sourcing practices.
• At launch, establish success profiles, selection criteria, search plans, and decision timelines.
• Share concise, evidence-based updates covering progress, risks, market feedback, and needed decisions.
• Drive timely and consistent selection decisions, constructively challenging misalignment or avoidable delays.
• Create a responsive, transparent, respectful candidate journey from initial contact through disposition or offer acceptance.
• Represent the organization, brands, culture, and opportunity accurately and compellingly in the talent market.
• Resolve candidate concerns and process breakdowns quickly to protect trust and employer brand.
• Keep requisitions, candidate stages, interview feedback, and disposition reasons accurate and current in the applicant tracking system.
• Advance candidates at a pace that supports hiring goals while meeting company policy and applicable employment requirements.
• Use funnel data to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion, and focus recruiting effort on highest-value activities.
• Meet defined hiring priorities, service expectations, and deliverables for the contract period.
• Leave recruiting records, candidate pipelines, and open-search status organized and actionable for the ongoing team.
• Document relevant market intelligence, process improvements, and follow-up actions before the assignment concludes.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience accepted.
• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including demonstrated success managing multiple searches simultaneously.
• Proven ability to source and engage passive talent using professional networks, research tools, referrals, databases, and direct outreach.
• Experience partnering with hiring managers to define requirements, assess talent, and move searches to timely decisions.
• Working knowledge of structured interviewing, fair and consistent selection practices, and applicable employment requirements.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, Microsoft Office, and recruiting metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, judgment, and discretion with confidential information.

Tools and technologies

• Applicant tracking systems
• Sourcing platforms
• Microsoft Office
• Recruiting metrics

How success is measured

• Time to qualified slate: Percentage of priority requisitions with an agreed number of qualified candidates presented within the target timeframe.
• Time to fill: Median days from approved requisition to accepted offer versus the agreed target by role type.
• Qualified slate conversion: Percentage of submitted candidates advanced to hiring manager interview.
• Offer acceptance rate: Percentage of offers accepted within approved compensation parameters.
• Stakeholder and candidate experience: Hiring manager satisfaction and candidate responsiveness/experience results at or above the established target.