Data Entry Specialist

AppleOne Employment Services; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services is seeking a detail-oriented Human Resources Data Entry Specialist for a four-week, temporary election cycle project in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The role focuses on accurate HR data entry, confidentiality, and advanced Excel skills.

You will support a busy HR team by entering and reconciling data across systems, maintaining confidential records, and meeting tight deadlines. A minimum of 3–5 years in administrative or HR support and a 50 WPM typing speed are

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of administrative, clerical, data entry, HR support, or records-processing experience.
• Typing speed of at least 50 words per minute accurately.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and large data-set handling.
• Strong data-entry accuracy, organization, and confidentiality.
• Ability to meet deadlines in a high-volume environment.
• Clear communication for reporting discrepancies or issues.

Responsibilities

• Enter, update, review, and maintain employee, applicant, and temporary worker information in HR systems and spreadsheets.
• Perform high-volume data entry with accuracy while meeting processing deadlines.
• Review applications and personnel documents for completeness and accuracy.
• Reconcile HR data across spreadsheets and reports to identify discrepancies.
• Maintain HR master lists, tracking logs, and confidential records.
• Scan, index, organize, and maintain confidential HR records per procedures.

Skills

Typing 50 WPM

Excel proficiency

Data entry accuracy

Confidentiality

Attention to detail

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented Human Resources Data Entry Specialist for a temporary 4-week election cycle project in Fort Lauderdale, FL. This contract opportunity is ideal for an administrative professional with strong Excel skills, excellent data accuracy, and experience handling confidential employee or applicant information.

In this role, you will support a busy Human Resources team in a mission-driven government and public sector environment. You will help maintain accurate workforce records, process high-volume HR data, reconcile information across systems and spreadsheets, and support time-sensitive staffing needs during an important operational period.

This is a great opportunity for a dependable professional who enjoys organized processes, supportive leadership, meaningful public service work, and contributing to a team that values accuracy, confidentiality, and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Enter, update, review, and maintain employee, applicant, and temporary worker information in HR systems, spreadsheets, databases, tracking logs, and electronic files.
• Perform high-volume data entry with accuracy while meeting established election cycle processing deadlines.
• Review applications, forms, staffing records, personnel documents, and supporting materials for completeness, consistency, and accuracy.
• Reconcile HR data across spreadsheets, reports, staffing records, applications, and authorized documentation to identify discrepancies or missing information.
• Maintain HR master lists, temporary assignment records, status reports, workforce tracking spreadsheets, and other administrative records.
• Scan, index, organize, file, and maintain confidential electronic HR records according to established procedures and records-management standards.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay: $25 per hour.
• Job Type: Contract/Temporary.
• Project Length: 4 weeks.
• Start Date: 9/21.
• Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL.

For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Support HR data entry, records processing, reconciliation, quality control, and administrative tracking during the election cycle.
• Maintain and update temporary worker assignment information, including position title, department, staffing agency, assignment status, start date, end date, and authorized changes.
• Prepare and maintain spreadsheets, tracking reports, reconciliations, status lists, and HR processing records.
• Monitor assigned records, spreadsheets, and queues to identify incomplete items, discrepancies, or matters requiring HR review.
• 3 to 5 years of relevant administrative, clerical, data entry, HR support, or records-processing experience.
• Ability to type a minimum of 50 words per minute accurately.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to work efficiently with large spreadsheets and data sets.
• Strong data entry accuracy, attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
• Ability to review, compare, validate, reconcile, summarize, and maintain data across multiple sources.
• Strong confidentiality standards and the ability to protect sensitive employee, applicant, and temporary worker information.
• Ability to meet deadlines in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment.
• Clear communication skills for reporting discrepancies, missing documentation, processing issues, or items requiring supervisory review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Human Resources, staffing, onboarding, personnel records, or temporary workforce administration.
• Experience working in a government, public sector, election cycle, or similarly regulated environment.
• Familiarity with electronic records management, document indexing, scanning, file naming, and data quality-control procedures.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf

The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

AppleOne participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program. https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf

We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.