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Recruiting Assistant

Kearney
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/21/2025

The Recruiting Assistant will support 1-2 Recruiters with sourcing and recruiting efforts for Experienced Hire Consulting opportunities. This person will also have the opportunity to run full life-cycle recruitment for Non-Consulting roles. The Recruiting and HR teams at Kearney are highly collaborative and priorities may vary across teams, providing an opportunity to broadly support the North America Recruiting and HR function.


Key Responsibilities

  • Develop pipeline of talent primarily with Analyst, Associate and Manager candidates across various consulting practices for current and future openings.
  • Build and nurture relationships with candidates that bring diversity to the firm.
  • Qualify talent through phone interviews and recommend appropriate next steps.
  • Leverage employee and candidate referrals and keep leads warm.
  • Assist Experienced Hire recruiting team with preparation and facilitation interview days, including interview schedule creation, creating interview and candidate packs, post-interview and evaluation tracking and coordinating debriefs.
  • Prepare and extend offer letters and new hire paperwork for Experienced Hires and maintain candidate trackers.
  • Manage applicant tracking system (Taleo) and recruiting event platform (Yello) throughout the recruitment process.
  • Manage external job postings and job posting sites, such as LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Alumni Sites, and school career pages as necessary.
  • Collaborate across Experienced and Campus recruiting teams and play an active role on strategic projects
  • Support other recruiting programs and events as needed.
  • Collaborate with and support the campus recruiting team as needed.


Who you are

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem-solvers who don’t accept the first thing in front of them and who are always unapologetically themselves.


We want to hear from you if you:

  • Hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent 4-year degree required.
  • Have had 1-2 years of in-house or agency recruiting experience preferred.
  • Have prior sourcing experience in a competitive market (required)
  • Are highly motivated and proactive team player who is eager to learn and develop.
  • Possess a commitment to providing excellent work in a very fast-paced environment.
  • Have exceptional attention to detail.
  • Possess strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
  • Have an ability to interact effectively at all levels, including candidates and senior leaders of the organization.
  • Are proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, required.
  • Have experience using Taleo, Yello or other similar systems required.
  • Limited travel may be required.


What we can offer you

Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. Helping them to make an impact, they are sustained by a competitive remuneration package plus comprehensive benefits and perks, including but not limited to:

  • Generous retirement/pension savings contributions.
  • Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and their families.
  • Structured and on-the-job learning and development opportunities.
  • Personalized opportunities to help you chart a unique career journey to pursue your own personal and professional goals.


Read more about our benefits and how you can a make your mark, your way at Kearney.com/careers.


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Recruiting Assistant compensation - $50k-$55k: It is important to note that at Kearney, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role. Individual salaries within each range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge and skills. Kearney reviews compensation regularly and may adjust base salaries to reflect market competitiveness. In addition to salary, individuals may be eligible for a discretionary performance bonus. Our full suite of benefits includes paid time off, 401(k) match and profit sharing, medical, dental and vision coverage, healthcare concierge, backup child/adult care, annual employer HSA contribution, home office stipend, subsidized Gympass and annual wellness program, and leaves of absence when needed to support employees’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being.


Read more about our benefits and a career at Kearney.com/careers.


Equal Employment Opportunity and Non-Discrimination

Kearney prides itself on providing a culture that allows employees to bring their best selves to work every day. Our people can feel comfortable, confident, and joyful to do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. Kearney aims to build diverse capabilities to help our clients solve their most mission critical problems.


Kearney is committed to building a diverse, unbiased and inclusive workforce. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities, or religious beliefs and practices. Members of communities historically underrepresented in consulting are encouraged to apply.

Salary : $50,000 - $55,000

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