Recruiter – Arlington Heights

Company Name:

Intertek

Position Type:

Full-time

Desired Experience:

3 - 5

Intertek tests a wide variety of electrical and electronic goods from toys to telephones to appliances and medical equipment for product safety, electromagnetic compatibility, and both absolute and relative product performances. We provide a multitude of services close to where clients design and source products with the test results and reports accepted and recognized as valid in target markets throughout the US as well as worldwide. Intertek serves customers worldwide through its network of laboratories and offices. Currently we are recruiting for a Recruiter located in our Chicago, IL location.General Duties Overview

• Plan, develop and implement recruitment and staffing strategies for assigned business streams with special emphasis on a well qualified and diverse pool of candidates, timeliness, and cost effectiveness.

• Provide a high level of customer service in partnering with hiring managers in comprehensive recruitment and staffing issues, policies, recruitment processes, interviewing techniques.
• Establish, cultivate, and maintain ongoing relationships with hiring managers in order to understand the business steam and its recruitment needs within the context of the company’s mission; develop and maintain a strong rapport with key leaders in the business streams; acquire substantial knowledge about the business objectives, goals, operations and work culture.
• Set expectations (develop roles and responsibilities). Provide counsel and expertise in all areas of recruitment and staffing (e.g., search firms, and advertising.)
• Develop recruitment plan based on business stream needs that clearly define and commit to service and performance criteria; develop and review diversity plan with focused recruitment strategies; influence strategic staffing decisions such as succession planning.
• Execute recruitment plan by aggressively recruiting for well-qualified candidates from a variety of sources, managing selection process to include interviewing, assessing candidates, screening, and recommending finalists, and filling the staffing needs within the defined behavior and performance criteria.
• Work closely with the Human Resource team to facilitate effective Human Resource relationships; advise hiring manager regarding Orientation, Benefits, Compensation, and Payroll; provide basic benefits information to hiring managers and candidates.
• Promote Intertek at a variety of recruitment functions such as job fairs, university and college career days, and career events targeted for special populations. Collect and analyze data on demographics and hiring activity for use in designing recruitment plans.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

• Requires skills, knowledge, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or related field.

• Work generally requires three years of experience working closely with hiring managers on recruiting and other human resource issues in a dynamic and diverse environment or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.

• Demonstrated appropriate customer service attitudes and services in a variety of work settings.
• Business acumen/competence: sufficient understanding of education and/or health care field(s) and specific departmental environments to elicit credibility with all levels of management and faculty.
• Demonstrated significant human resources management or recruitment experience in handling challenging human resource/recruitment issues in a diverse and dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of basic human resource functions such as compensation, benefits, employee/labor relations, training and development.
• Teamwork/Collaboration: demonstrated skills and abilities in collaborative efforts with experience in team/project oriented activities. Flexibility: demonstrated the ability to adapt to a variety of human resource issues with successful outcomes and demonstrate openness to new ideas and approaches.
• Strong understanding and appreciation of a diverse work environment and have demonstrated initiatives for recruiting for diversity.
• Interpersonal & Communication Skills: ability to relate well to people and work in cooperation with others to effectively coordinate activities in order to accomplish tasks. The candidate must also be able to communicate effectively through writing and oral presentations. PC/Technology Skills: basic proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, Internet and presentation software.
• Judgment: demonstrated ability to act independently upon information and make decisions that achieve optimal results.
• Demonstrated a results orientation for delivering appropriate products and services in an accurate, complete and timely fashion.