Entry-Level Recruiter/Sourcer/HR

Job Description

Entry-Level Recruiter/Sourcer/HR |

The Tone:
This is an early career role, located in San Jose, CA, requiring an onsite presence 4 days a week. We are a fast-growing, small recruiting firm focused on helping early-stage startups build strong teams. This position supports our recruiting efforts, helping to identify and secure high-quality candidates for emerging tech companies. It is suited for a driven, detail-oriented individual who is proactive, adaptable, and self-directed.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Location: San Jose, CA (In-person)
• Team: Works with sourcers reporting to this role and collaborates with startup Founders and CEOs.
• Mission: Build and maintain a candidate sourcing pipeline for 2-3 startups, ensuring a seamless candidate experience and competitive recruiting capabilities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a candidate sourcing pipeline for 2-3 startups, working closely with the sourcers reporting to you while continuing to source candidates yourself.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate directly with Founders and CEOs of emerging tech startups to understand their hiring needs.
• Tool Utilization: Learn and leverage our specialized software tools to identify high-quality candidates.
• Process Mastery: Master our unique recruiting process, which allows our startups to compete with the recruiting capabilities of much larger companies.
• Candidate Engagement: Conduct phone screens with technical candidates, ensuring a seamless candidate experience, and engage in cold outreach via phone, email, or text to potential candidates, including follow-ups.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early career professional with strong customer service aptitude; a nearly completed Bachelor’s or Master’s degree is a plus, but not required with relevant experience.
• Experience: Relevant customer service experience; 6 months in sales or customer service is preferred.
• Skills: Proactive problem-solving, quick adaptability, ease in learning new software tools, self-direction and initiative, detail-orientation, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Bonus: A strong go-getter attitude.