What are the responsibilities and job description for the Talent Acquisition Specialist position at Castle Group?
Overview
The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for filling job requisitions promptly with qualified candidates, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action guidelines. This role encompasses full-cycle recruiting and organizational support throughout the staffing process. Key responsibilities include talent acquisition screening, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding of Castle Group's emerging talent.
The Talent Acquisition Specialist provides exemplary service in a manner consistent with the values and mission of the Castle Group. He or she performs all responsibilities while demonstrating outstanding customer service skills representative of Castle Royal Service as it relates to this function. This includes working interdepartmentally, as well as with our internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Supports talent acquisition employment branding initiatives, strategies, hiring plans current staffing needs and forecasts.
- Responsible for leading and completing project tasks efficiently, ensuring all project deadlines, milestones, and deliverables are met
- Manage full lifecycle recruiting including, but not limited to, creating requisitions, managing job postings, conducting interviews, extending offers, coordinating pre-employment checks or verifications process to meet the organizational hiring goals.
- Conduct recruitment kick-off meetings with hiring managers and interview teams to ensure job requirements and expectations are clearly understood, and candidates are assessed against appropriate criteria.
- Provide regular follow-up to the respective hiring managers and candidates to ensure timeliness of the recruitment process.
- Actively participate in all hiring-related activities and engage in cross-functional projects.
- Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and maintain a high level of involvement in recruiting outlets throughout the communities in which the company operates by attending networking events, job fairs, and industry events to build and maintain candidate pipeline for all positions.
- Generate qualified candidates through traditional and non-traditional recruiting efforts such as alternative sourcing and passive candidate sourcing.
- Document interactions, outreach, and screening results as well as staffing metrics.
- Source candidates though HR ATS database.
- Manage the onboarding process for new hires from offer accepted until start day working in tantum with hiring manager to ensure positive candidate experience.
- Conduct on-boarding processes.
- Assist in employee retention and development.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s in human resources or business administration or relevant field
- Minimum 2 years of customer service/customer-related experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Willingness to understand the duties and competencies of different roles.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Communicate, receive, and exchange ideas and information by means of the spoken and written.
- Spanish Fluency is preferred.
Physical requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Able to work under pressure, maintain composure and utilize good judgment during emergency/difficult and stressful situations.
- Ability to
- lift 20-30 lbs. following appropriate safety procedures.
- hear, understand and respond appropriately to verbal requests made in person and over the telephone.
- respond verbally in an understandable, professional manner in person and over the telephone.
- stoop and bend.
- Extensive use of fingers for typing and visual use of the computer monitor.
- Visual ability correctable to 20/20.
- This position will require 20-30% travel.
- Overnight travel or travel by plane on occasion.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends if needed.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Castle is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local laws.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the position and is not exhaustive. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be supplemented at any time based on organizational needs. In addition, management has the right to change any portion of this job description at any time and for any reason.
