Contract Recruiter

What You Bring

• Wicked at Sourcing: you're a sleuth at finding out where the talent lives and aren't afraid to cold-call. You have experience connecting deep into a function where you know many of the players and have built a network that will refer others to you.

• Defy the Laws of Attraction: you can learn the lingo for talking to a real estate agent, you make friends everywhere, and you've got a knack for getting even the most evasive candidates to talk to you.

• Eye for Bar-Raising Talent: you don't waste time with hit-or-miss candidates. You listen carefully to what our Customer needs and you pride yourself on quality, not quantity. If it doesn't work out, you deliver the news quickly and respectfully, and then adapt your sourcing plan.   

• Sales-Person: you know how to sell an opportunity to your audience. You pride yourself on delivering legendary candidate and customer experience.

• Drive & Determination: you do whatever it takes to hit the goal, by turning over every rock to find the needle in the haystack.

• Sense of Urgency: whether it's reviewing applications, gathering interview feedback or extending offers, you move swiftly to ensure you continue to move the dial on your requisitions.

What You’ll Do

• Find Candidates: Utilize programs and direct sourcing to attract qualified candidates with skills and behaviors we want to be successful with Redfin. You'll focus on real estate candidates for all levels of roles.

• Evaluate Talent: We'll need you to pre-screen candidates, assess whether they're in-line with our values & criteria, and discover what makes them tick.

• Manage the Pipeline: You'll need to be pro-active about keeping things organized, militant about procedure, and reliable on follow-through.

• Build a Bench: continually connect & recruit in challenging markets to build a pipeline of talent to tap into in the future.

• Advise: Be the talent advisor to hiring leaders. Use data to influence change, map effective selection processes and recruitment plans, then execute consistently.

• Guide: As a Contract Recruiter, you'll work closely with the Recruiting Manager to develop strategy and guide the team to evolve and achieve new heights of success.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years as a recruiter with a history of exceptional results; including real estate, corporate or sales recruiting experience. Ideally you have supported a broad geography and recruited for teams outside of your local area.

• Smarts: You've got a college degree, can communicate and write well and are sharp as a tack at grasping new things. You can explain / measure what you've done, pitch new ideas, and can build the case for change.   

• Strategist: you have built and executed successful recruiting strategies. You pivot and try something new when the original plan doesn't work as expected. You're creative and think outside the box.

• Tech-chops: You are an expert with online recruiting methods and utilizing social media, and you are meticulous about applicant tracking. Preferred experience with Workday (ATS), Phenom (CRM), Slack & Google Suite.