Recruitment and Retention Specialist

Essential Functions:

Develops, facilitates, and implements overall recruiting and retention strategies for assigned departments.

Collaborates with assigned department managers to identify and draft detailed and accurate job descriptions and hiring criteria.

Identifies and implements efficient and effective recruiting methods and strategies based on the available role, industry standards, and the needs of the assigned departments.

Oversees job posting and advertisement processes for the assigned departments.

Sources and recruits candidates for assigned departments using databases, social media, etc.

Schedules interviews; oversees preparation of interview questions and other hiring and selection materials for designed departments.

Assists with the interview process, attending and conducting interviews with assigned managers, directors, and the hiring committee

Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, regulations, and company policies for assigned departments.

Attends and participates in college job fairs and recruiting events for assigned departments.

Schedules and coordinates special County job fairs as needed.

Promotes the County’s reputation as a “best place to work.”

Additional Duties:

Provides assistance and research support to the Human Resources team regarding turnover, recruiting efforts, and hiring success

Verifies references and compares job criteria to the applicant’s qualifications.

Organizes complete and accurate files on new hire candidates

Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements, and Impacts

Data Responsibility:

Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

Collects classifies, and formats data or information in accordance with a prescribed schema or plan to facilitate the identification and extraction of useful information.

People Responsibility:

People include employees, co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies, and the general public.

Provides information, guidance, or assistance to people that directly facilitate task accomplishment; may give instructions or assignments to helpers or assistants.

Asset Responsibility:

Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.

Requires responsibility and opportunity for managing moderate economies and/or preventing moderate losses through the management of a division; handles supplies of high value or moderate amounts of financial data consistent with the operation of a division. Substantial focus, accuracy, attention to detail, and follow-up are required.

Mathematical Requirements:

Mathematics requires using symbols, numbers, and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

Uses addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and/or calculates ratios, rates, and percentages.

Communications Requirements:

Communication involves the ability to read, write, and speak.

Reads journals, manuals, and professional publications; speaks informally to groups of co-workers, staff in other organizational agencies, the general public, and people in different organizations and presents training; composes original reports, training, and other written materials, using proper language, punctuation, grammar, and style.

Judgment Requirements:

Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.

Responsible for guiding others, requiring frequent decisions, affecting the individual, co-workers, and others who depend on the service or product; works in a somewhat fluid environment with rules and procedures but many variations from the routine.

Complexity of Work:

Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration, and creativity required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.

Performs skilled work involving rules/systems with almost constant problem solving; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results and occasional exposure to unusual pressure.

Impact of Errors:

The impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.

The impact of errors is moderately serious – affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.

Physical Demands:

Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Performs sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to ten pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis or sustained keyboard operations.

Equipment Usage:

Equipment usage involves responsibility for materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, and products.

Handles or uses machines, tools, equipment, or work aids involving some latitude for judgment regarding attainment of a standard or in selecting appropriate items.

Unavoidable Hazards:

Unavoidable hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.

None

Safety of Others:

Safety of others refers to the level of responsibility for the safety of others, either inherent in the job or to ensure the safety of the general public. (Does not include safety of subordinates).

Requires some responsibility for the safety and health of others and/or for occasional enforcement of the standards of public safety or health.