Recruiter/Senior Recruiter, Campus Recruiting and Programs

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• The Recruiter/Senior Recruiter will act as a recruiting consultant to the business and is responsible for advising on the selection of the best candidates.
• This individual is accountable to manage the talent pipeline, while fostering and executing recruitment strategies to support and fill business needs.
• The Recruiter/Senior Recruiter will work closely with the hiring managers and strategic partners to accomplish departmental and overall business goals.
  
  

What You'll Do

• Build polished PowerPoint decks for internal and external partners, as well as senior leadership
• Performs industry research and data analysis, generates reporting, and uses results to make strategic recommendations (e.g., which schools/channels we should recruit at, internship program design improvements to attract top talent, etc.)
• Serves as program manager/owner for select early career programs (e.g., Intern Program)
• Uses consultative approach to partner with hiring managers for identified businesses/functions to understand and prioritize job opening requirements, and influences staffing decisions according to business needs
• Engages with sourcing partners and facilitates the assessment process with the hiring manager by conducting thorough intake sessions, clarifying staffing needs and responsibilities, and ensuring job descriptions reflect accurate knowledge, skills and abilities required
• Provides guidance and influence to business leaders to ensure the right people are hired for the right positions at the right time
• Acts as a resource to hiring managers on conducting behavioral interviewing, and facilitates selection process and discussion, to ensure effective, legal interviewing practices
• Manages positive candidate and hiring manager experience throughout the recruitment process
• Influences overall hiring process to achieve timeliness and agreements
• Facilitates understanding of offer components to gain offer acceptance with the applicant
• Provides hiring manager accurate and timely update on applicant activity, tracks talent acquisition metrics and reports trends and issues to leadership, providing recommendations for improvement
• Ensures up-to-date applicant records in the applicant tracking system for accurate reporting and analysis for their business units and team
• Builds and owns relationships with schools and diversity partners
• Oversees recruiting events and summer intern programming
• Provides recommendations and implements process improvements
• Travel required up to 75% during peak recruiting seasons (fall)
  
  

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years’ experience in a recruiting, campus relations, business strategy or similar role
  
  

Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Knowledge of employment law, corporate recruitment practices
• Knowledge of competency-based interviews and assessment techniques
• Knowledge/prior experience with SuccessFactors or other large enterprise ATS systems
• Knowledge of workforce planning (forecast, identify specific needs, skills, locations, and
• behaviors)
  
  

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to tell a story through data and slides
• Excellent relationship management skills, ability to establish credibility and partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk and plans for actions
• High attention to detail
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Passion for learning and continuous improvement
• Ability to demonstrate a strong customer orientation and influencing skills
• Ability to conduct difficult conversations
• Ability to think strategically; creative and innovative thinking skills, and the ability to exercise
• sound judgment
• Change agility and change management
  
  

What You'll Get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
  
  

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20 Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.