What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Recruiter position at KM Partners?
FIRM INTRO
KM Partners is an entrepreneurial National Retained Executive Search and Professional Recruitment Firm with dedicated practice areas focused on impact-investing and related businesses, respecting responsible capitalism. We partner with clients to recruit and place industry-specific professionals across occupations, including C-level executives, middle management, and experienced associates throughout the United States.
GROWTH: Since 2016, we have achieved more than 40% year-over-year average revenue growth. Part of our growth has been achieved by creating efficiencies through focusing on higher-level placements and strategically relevant roles in similar geographic regions to leverage other outreach/recruiting efforts with overlapping candidate qualifications, allowing for more placement opportunities from similar candidate pools.
A high volume of high-quality searches with direct placement opportunities
Clients on a waitlist with pending searches to hand off immediately to new hires
CULTURE: Fun, work hard/play hard culture. We value results and provide a strong, supportive culture to help you achieve your goals. We take a highly ethical, genuine, advisory-style approach to the professional placements we make with our growing list of long-term, repeat client partners.
BRAND REPUTATION: Our retained and exclusive engagement style with clients, along with our consultative, value-add approach in specific national practice areas has earned us a high-quality brand reputation and led to consistent repeat and referral business coming directly to us.
CLOSE RATE: We place well-qualified professionals, and we selectively screen the companies we partner with, which has helped lead to a 97% close rate on our retained searches.
TRAINING: By taking the long view on each of our new team members and with continuous reinvestment in technology, sourcing resources, training, and development, our average tenure is progressively increasing, leading to significant and rapid income increases on/for our team.
EXPANDING BENEFITS: Our company offering will now include 401K with a 3 ½% company match. Additional benefits include full healthcare and dental insurance, cell phone, internet, and home office reimbursements for hybrid work schedules, paid parking, fun & rewarding team-building events, weekly team lunches, industry conference attendance, and a flexible, Personally Responsible PTO policy.
At KM, our clientele ranges from start-up to mid-market private family-owned generational companies and long-established larger national industry leaders, most supported by mission-driven capital from private equity and institutional investors, aligned with the principles of ESG.
Our team growth is selective and deliberate with a hands-on, collaborative, mentorship style leadership, open-door availability, and relentless support of the success, growth, and development of each new team member we welcome on board.
We’re interested in hiring Executive Search and Professional Recruitment Professionals and top-performers (or up-and-coming, aspiring top-performers) whom we can invest in for long-term career growth. At KM, we have built a great business, with a high-quality reputation and expanding brand awareness throughout the United States in our niche practice areas. This is the opportunity to become a highly valued team member and benefit from our momentum.
We are building something unique, and we’re interested in sharing more of the details and learning about you and your professional objectives.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
This is the opportunity to become a professional Executive Recruiter and value-add career advisor by providing strategic insight and taking a genuine interest in the success of our client’s businesses and the careers of the professionals we represent.
Place key hires for high-quality companies throughout the United States primarily at the Sr Associate, Manager, Director, and Vice President levels and up through C-level
Advance, develop and refine your recruiting skills as well as your sales and business acumen by working side by side with mentorship-style leadership who have high-performance track records
Align with your core values through specializing in professional recruiting for impact-investment-oriented businesses that seek to have a positive and transformative impact on society.
Please note: Our website is currently being completely rebuilt and updated to refine our online professional image and full candidate/career portal integration to our database.
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Performance-based growth opportunity on a dynamic, and collaborative team with zero corporate bureaucracy. The Associate Executive Recruiter is responsible for proactively sourcing, recruiting, and placing high-quality industry-specific and thoroughly evaluated professionals with our client partners.
YOUR ROLE
Research, source, identify, and cold-call high-quality, industry-specific professionals throughout the US
Conduct pre-screen phone calls and video interviews with qualified candidates
Conduct professional references and complete synopsis to report and submit results to the client
Create dynamic and well-written candidate profiles based on prescreening phone calls, video interview evaluations, work sample reviews, and references conducted
Successfully match candidates to client profiles while carefully considering all technical, interpersonal, experiential, tangible, and intangible factors
Obtain and use feedback to enhance customer relationships and continuously improve the quality of service, add value, and enhance the client experience
Become familiar with and use various recruiting tools such as LinkedIn, Zoom Info, our applicant tracking system, Bullhorn, as well as our internal forms and templates for interviewing
Actively network and continuously add connections on LinkedIn to expand your professional network
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
1 years of marketing, customer service, or sales experience preferred
Maturity to recruit career professionals – you love “the hunt”
A self-starter with a positive attitude, “people skills,” and a passion for engaging people in conversation
Experience using Outlook, LinkedIn, Microsoft Office & SharePoint, ATS or CRM Software, etc.
Comfortable communicating with senior, mid, and junior level executives
Highly organized with keen attention to detail
Demonstrate effective telephone marketing and the ability to persuade and influence decision-makers
Deliver quality work with attention to detail and a sense of urgency
Maintain a professional appearance, demeanor, and approach to work
Demonstrate outstanding verbal skills, written communication skills, excellent customer service skills, and phone etiquette
Demonstrate strong time management skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, marketing, or a related field (or equivalent experience) is highly preferred
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