Contract Recruiter

Adelphi Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Public Relations is seeking a hands-on contract Recruiter and Talent Acquisition Partner to own the end-to-end recruitment process across a busy portfolio of roles. You will build trusted relationships with stakeholders, act as a recruitment SME, and share market insights to attract top talent for our PR agencies.

You will source passive candidates through your network, map the market, and help drive employer branding initiatives while optimizing the candidate experience.

Qualifications

• Must have proven experience owning end-to-end recruitment.
• Strong network in PR, healthcare, analytics, or creative recruitment is ideal.
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management with the ability to influence.
• Self-motivated, thrives in fast-paced environments, adapts to new systems.
• Experience with using AI tools in recruitment in a safe, critical way.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process from sign-off to offer stage.
• Grow and develop relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Act as a trusted SME for recruitment, sharing market insight and talent intelligence.
• Coach and advise leaders on best-practice recruitment.
• Source passive talent via your network, direct outreach, and market mapping.
• Assist with projects to boost employer branding and candidate experience.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Stakeholder management

Relationship building

AI recruiting tools

Self-motivation

Job description

Agency:

Omnicom Public Relations

Job Function:

People and Culture

Job Subfunction:

Talent Acquisition

Job Description:

Omnicom Public Relations is Omnicom’s reputation and influence authority, connecting clients to an ecosystem of expertise across public relations, public affairs and specialty communications. Our agencies include FleishmanHillard, Golin Ketchum, Porter Novelli and Weber Shandwick, alongside public affairs and specialty firms such as GMMB, FP1, maslansky + partners, Mercury, PLUS and Portland.

We are excited to be recruiting a contract Recruiter and Talent Acquisition Partner with a genuine passion for TA to join our team and help us hire top talent across our PR agencies. This is a hands-on role for someone who can hit the ground running, take ownership of a busy portfolio of roles and deliver quickly.

What will you be doing?

• Owning the end-to-end recruitment process for a range of positions, from sign-off to offer stage
• Growing and developing strong, meaningful relationships with stakeholders across the business
• Acting as a trusted subject matter expert for everything recruitment related, proactively sharing industry knowledge, market insight and talent intelligence
• Coaching, supporting and advising leaders across the business on best-practice recruitment
• Sourcing and engaging passive talent through your own network, direct outreach and market mapping
• Assisting with projects that support employer branding, external candidate attraction, inclusion, and platforms that increase efficiency, strengthen candidate experience and help us engage the best talent

Ideal experience

• Proven experience owning the end-to-end recruitment process
• An excellent network, ideally with experience recruiting in one or more of the following areas: public relations, healthcare, analytics, or creative
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management experience, with the ability to influence effectively
• Self-motivated, with the ability to use your own initiative; you thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt quickly to new systems and processes
• Strong technical recruiting skills, including using AI tools safely and critically in a work setting
  

$50-60 per hour

To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

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