Entry Level Recruiter *Immediate Start*

Calculated Hire; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + uncapped commission

401K match

Health, dental, vision + HSA

BeGiving program

Internal development program

Reward trip for top performers

Training programs

Personal financial concierge

Family-oriented culture

Job summary

Eight Eleven Group is seeking a dynamic Recruiter to join Calculated Hire’s team in Chicago. You will build talent networks, screen candidates, and align skilled consultants with client opportunities to drive rapid placements.

Responsibilities include collaborating with the sales team to identify hiring needs, developing candidate-sourcing strategies, conducting multiple interview formats, coaching candidates, and providing onboarding support to ensure successful placements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a willingness to learn and grow.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the sales team to determine the client’s hiring needs.
• Develop a strategy to identify niche-skilled candidates that meet expectations.
• Qualify candidates through an intensive internal interview process (phone, in-person, virtual).
• Assess applicants’ knowledge, skills, and experience to best fit open positions.
• Provide resume coaching, mock interviews, and interview feedback to candidates.
• Handle daily activities and adapt to new challenges and ventures.
• Provide onboarding and post-placement support to consultants with client projects.
• Consistently hit weekly metrics for calls, interviews, and placements.
• Set personal and team goals with your manager and recruiter support.

Skills

Communication skills

People skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Results-driven

Fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Applications will be accepted until at least October 30th, 2026.

Calculated Hire Recruiter - Start Date: October 5th

Launched in 2000, Eight Eleven Group committed to 100% organic growth, exclusively promoting from within, while always keeping culture and growth opportunity at the forefront of the business model. What began as a two-person Indianapolis startup, Eight Eleven Group has rapidly expanded to become a market-leading organization within one of the fastest growing industries today: Consulting and Professional Services.

Calculated Hire was established in 2016 to provide human capital solutions to our clients by merging technology and business strategy. Our team takes a relationship-based, solution-driven approach with Fortune 500 clients to help them solve their human capital challenges. We are not just in the business of consulting services - we are in the business of making a meaningful and authentic impact both internally with our employees and externally with our clients and consultants.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Calculated Hire Recruiter, you will build out talent networks of long-lasting, personal, and professional relationships with potential consultants. We create a next-level experience through the hiring process as they source and screen for qualified candidates to match them with opportunities where they can succeed. Recruiters advocate for their candidates, are accessible, genuine, and take the time to understand how they can add value to their job search and interview process. Our Recruiters bring value to our clients by offering them flexibility of timeline and finding them top talent at a rapid pace. Here’s what you will do:

• Collaborate with our sales team to determine the client’s hiring needs
• Help develop a strategy to identify niche-skilled candidates that meet expectations
• Qualify candidates through an intensive internal interview process before presenting candidate to external clients. This includes phone, in-person, and virtual interviews
• Assess applicants' knowledge, skills, and experience to best suit open positions
• Provide resume coaching, mock interviewing, job offer assistance, and interview feedback to candidates
• Handle a variety of activities daily, as well as the challenge of new problems and new ventures
• Provide extensive onboarding and post-placement support to create raving fans in our consultants throughout the duration of their project assignments with our clients
• Consistently hit their weekly metric goals of phone calls, interviews, and placements
• Set personal and team goals through frequent goals sessions with your manager and recruiter support

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Base salary + uncapped commission structure
• 401K match program
• Full slate of benefits, including health, dental, vision plans, and HSA
• Eight Eleven’s BeGiving Program: 8 hours per quarter for service work/volunteering
• Access to Eight Eleven University: Internal personal & professional development program
• All-expenses-paid Reward Trip each year for top producers and a guest
• Top-notch training programs at every step in your career
• Access to a personal financial concierge
• Genuine, passionate, family-oriented culture

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Competitive, motivated spirit and desire to succeed
• Outstanding communication skills and innate ability to connect with people
• Innovative and entrepreneurial spirit with the desire to learn and grow
• Results-driven, forward-thinking, problem-solving mindset
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, positive and ever-changing work environment
• Lively interest in the technical aspects of the work
• Bachelor’s Degree

EEO STATEMENT

• Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

PAY DISCLAIMER

• The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.