Talent Specialist

Position Summary

At Pendleton, our Talent Specialist strengthens the team by successfully attracting and hiring the best possible people for a wide variety of roles across our amazing company. Success in hiring starts with a great match but goes well beyond the first day. This position oversees onboarding and orientation activities and ensures new team members are set up for success for a fulfilling and long career.

Key Performance Indicators

• Time to fill
• 1-year retention rate
• Candidate experience score
• Hiring team experience score
• Process compliance rate
  
  

Essential Functions Of The Job

• Create and maintain relationships with hiring managers and be a true partner embedded in your assigned divisions.
• Initiate and lead kick-off meetings with hiring managers at the start of each recruitment.
• Ensure open positions are posted and attract a qualified and diverse pool of candidates.
• Partner with diversity-focused recruitment sources and coordinate activities to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Ensure all applicants have a positive experience, regardless of outcome.
• Facilitate training and continued coaching for hiring managers to create and maintain a company culture that maintains, attracts, and develops employees.
• Review and screen applicants, conduct and/or coordinate interviews, and partner with hiring managers on the selection process and final selection.
• Communicate frequently with candidates, referral sources, and hiring managers through email, phone, and video communication.
• Create and deliver a dynamic, welcoming, and informative new employee orientation process for the business unit(s). Ensure information is retained and usable by the new employee.
• Coordinate with the hiring manager and the new hire to ensure a seamless and positive new hire onboarding experience for the entire team.
• Manage records and reports in the Applicant Tracking System, tracking applicant contacts and outcomes and maintaining accurate records of recruiting activities for each position.
• Initiate Offers of Employment on behalf of the hiring manager and in accordance with company procedures and policies.
• Perform post-offer screening processes such as background checks, reference checks, and verification of information provided in the recruitment process.
• Prepare and process new hire onboarding information and documents in the HRIS system. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve delays to ensure timely completion.
• Attend job fairs and career events as needed.
• Maintain job descriptions with up-to-date competencies and KPIs.
• Refine and oversee company-wide onboarding, orientation, and career development programs.
• Provide career and succession planning support for all areas of the organization.
  
  

CORE EXPECTATIONS

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, using judgement and diplomacy in interfacing with a wide variety of individuals.
• Cultivate a positive and collaborative team environment with all team members.
• Exceptional computer skills with the ability to learn new software applications quickly.
• Maintain a current understanding of regulatory and legal compliance issues.
• Ability to effectively elevate issues or seek assistance with complex or high-risk situations.
• Ability to manage processes and project timelines according to established priorities.
• Communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to maintain accurate records through process design, workflows, and routine audits.
  
  

BEHAVIORAL

• Extreme confidentiality.
• Thoughtful and well developed decision making.
• Excellent listener and respectful communicator.
• Solution oriented.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or related area of study (additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
• At least two years’ experience in full-cycle recruiting.
• Proficiency in ADP Workforce Now Recruiting and Onboarding.
• Expert user of Excel and other MS Office programs.
  
  

Physical Requirements And Working Environment

• Good motor skills for oral and hand-written communications. This position requires a great deal of communicating with customers, management, and other employees via telephone, email, and letters.
• Able to talk on phone. Speak English clearly.
• Read documents with fine print.
• Sit or remain stationary for long periods of time.
• Mental demands for time sensitive activities.
• May require local travel, up to 5% of the time.
• We celebrate an in-office-first policy with some hybrid flexibility.