Director of Professional Staff Talent Acquisition

MMM LEGAL GROUP; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP seeks a Director of Professional Staff Talent Acquisition to lead the firm’s recruiting strategy and execution for professional staff across all offices. The role reports to the CHRO and Senior HR Director and oversees the full lifecycle of recruiting, sourcing innovations, and candidate experience.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years in talent acquisition, strong leadership, and a proven ability to partner with senior leaders.

Qualifikationen

• 8–10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience including leadership responsibilities.
• Experience recruiting professional staff in a professional services or similarly complex organization.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or professional certification preferred.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills.
• Exceptional relationship-building and consultative communication abilities.
• Experience using ATS, recruiting technologies, and LinkedIn Recruiter.

Aufgaben

• Develop and execute Taft’s professional staff recruiting strategy.
• Partner with Firm leadership to understand workforce planning and anticipated hiring needs.
• Build relationships with hiring managers.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for critical and difficult-to-fill positions.
• Monitor recruiting trends and recommend innovative sourcing strategies and technologies.
• Strengthen Taft’s employer brand and candidate experience.
• Personally manage the full recruitment lifecycle for professional staff positions.
• Partner with hiring managers to define position requirements and recruitment strategies.
• Develop creative sourcing approaches utilizing direct sourcing, networking, referrals, professional organizations, and recruiting technology.
• Ensure a consistent, high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
• Negotiate employment offers in partnership with hiring managers and HR leadership.
• Build, mentor, and lead Firm’s Talent Acquisition team, including future recruiting staff.
• Establish recruiting priorities and workload distribution.
• Coach recruiter(s) and promote best practices in sourcing, interviewing, and candidate management.
• Foster collaboration with HR, practice leaders, office administrators, and business services leaders.
• Evaluate and improve recruiting workflows to increase efficiency and reduce time-to-fill.
• Develop standardized recruiting processes, interview guides, and hiring manager resources.
• Ensure consistent use of the applicant tracking system and recruiting technologies.
• Analyze recruiting metrics and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Manage relationships with external search firms, recruiting vendors, and advertising partners.
• Evaluate when external recruiting support is appropriate.
• Monitor recruiting expenditure and agency usage.
• Identify opportunities to reduce external recruiting costs while maintaining hiring quality.
• Develop and report meaningful recruiting metrics, including time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, candidate pipeline health, source effectiveness, hiring manager satisfaction, candidate experience, new hire retention, agency utilization and recruiting costs.
• Provide regular reporting and strategic recommendations to firm leadership.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Talent acquisition

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Data-driven recruiting

LinkedIn Recruiter

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree or professional certification

Tools

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Recruiting technologies

LinkedIn Recruiter

Jobbeschreibung

Taft is seeking a Director of Professional Staff Talent Acquisition to join our Human Resources team.

We are seeking a Director of Professional Staff Talent Acquisition with 8 or more years’ experience to join our team. The Director is responsible for working with the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Senior Human Resources Director to develop and lead Taft’s professional staff recruiting strategy and execution across all offices. This role oversees the full recruitment lifecycle for professional staff positions, develops innovative sourcing strategies, builds strong relationships with Firm leadership and hiring managers, and ensures that Taft attracts and hires exceptional talent.. All Taft employees operate under a “Client First” philosophy—in all things, we seek to provide exceptional services to our clients.

Duties And Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Strategy

• Develop and execute Taft’s professional staff recruiting strategy.
• Partner with Firm leadership to understand workforce planning and anticipated hiring needs.
• Build relationships with hiring managers.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for critical and difficult-to-fill positions.
• Monitor recruiting trends and recommend innovative sourcing strategies and technologies.
• Strengthen Taft’s employer brand and candidate experience.

Recruitment Lifecycle Management

• Personally manage the full recruitment lifecycle for assigned professional staff positions, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer development, and onboarding coordination.
• Partner with hiring managers to define position requirements and recruitment strategies.
• Develop creative sourcing approaches utilizing direct sourcing, networking, referrals, professional organizations, and recruiting technology.
• Ensure a consistent, high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
• Negotiate employment offers in partnership with hiring managers and Human Resources leadership.

Leadership & Team Development

• Build, mentor, and lead Firm’s Talent Acquisition team, including future recruiting staff.
• Establish recruiting priorities and workload distribution.
• Coach recruiter(s) and promote best practices in sourcing, interviewing, and candidate management.
• Foster collaboration with HR, practice leaders, office administrators, and business services leaders.

Process Improvement

• Evaluate and improve recruiting workflows to increase efficiency and reduce time-to-fill.
• Develop standardized recruiting processes, interview guides, and hiring manager resources.
• Ensure consistent use of the applicant tracking system and recruiting technologies.
• Analyze recruiting metrics and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Vendor & Budget Management

• Manage relationships with external search firms, recruiting vendors, and advertising partners.
• Evaluate when external recruiting support is appropriate.
• Monitor recruiting expenditure and agency usage.
• Identify opportunities to reduce external recruiting costs while maintaining hiring quality.

Metrics & Reporting

• Develop and report meaningful recruiting metrics, including:
  • Time-to-fill
  • Offer acceptance rates
  • Candidate pipeline development and health
  • Source effectiveness
  • Hiring manager satisfaction
  • Candidate experience
  • New hire retention
  • Agency utilization and recruiting costs
• Provide regular reporting and strategic recommendations to firm leadership.

Knowledge, Abilities, Skills, Interpersonal And Other Requirements

• Experience recruiting professional staff in a professional services, legal, accounting, consulting, or similarly complex organization.
• Demonstrated success leading high-volume, full-cycle recruiting efforts.
• Experience developing recruiting strategies for exempt and non-exempt positions.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills.
• Exceptional relationship‑building and consultative communication abilities.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems, recruiting technologies, and LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use recruiting metrics to drive decision‑making.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, client-service‑oriented environment.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred.
• 8‑10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership responsibilities.

Taft is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The information in this posting presents general duties, tasks, and responsibilities but is not intended to be an exhaustive listing. Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP participates in E-VERIFY.