Monthly Pay: $4,361 - $5,831 USD per month
Summary
This role sits within a recruiting team guided by a recruiting team lead. As a Recruiting Agent, you directly respond to candidate questions, organize hiring activity, and keep recruiting information current so recruiters can move conversations forward with confidence. You work closely with candidates, recruiters, hiring contacts, and the recruiting team to provide clear updates and dependable coordination. The position is fully remote and work from home in Virginia, United States. The role requires a 40-hour weekly commitment. Working days and shift times may vary. Your careful, respectful approach helps create an organized candidate journey and supports timely decisions throughout each search.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor incoming candidate inquiries from email, phone messages, and the applicant queue, then acknowledge requests using established response guidance.
- Review applicant profiles and resumes for completeness, confirm contact details, and enter accurate updates in an applicant-tracking system such as Bullhorn.
- Use a professional networking platform such as LinkedIn Recruiter to locate relevant profiles and share approved opportunity information.
- Coordinate interview availability between candidates and recruiters through a scheduling and calendar such as Microsoft Outlook, noting confirmed times and changes.
- Send clear reminders, preparation details, and follow-up messages, answering routine questions about the hiring process and next steps.
- Maintain orderly candidate status notes, interview outcomes, and contact history so recruiters have current context before outreach.
- Follow up on incomplete applications, missed interviews, or unanswered messages within established procedures and record each contact attempt.
- Route complex candidate concerns, unclear role details, and approval questions to the assigned recruiter or recruiting team lead.
- Check shared recruiting trackers in a spreadsheets and data entry tool such as Google Sheets, identifying missing fields for correction.
- Quality is judged by accurate entries, timely turnaround, complete notes, and consistent follow-up with candidates and recruiters.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- No experience required; related experience supporting recruiting activities preferred.
- Familiarity with candidate workflows, resume review, interview logistics, and respectful applicant communication preferred.
- Ability to learn an applicant-tracking system such as Bullhorn and maintain accurate candidate status information.
- Comfort using a scheduling and calendar such as Microsoft Outlook for interview coordination and updates.
- Ability to use a professional networking platform such as LinkedIn Recruiter to review profiles and support approved outreach.
- Ability to use a spreadsheets and data entry tool such as Google Sheets for tracker updates and basic sorting.
- Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and a service-focused approach when supporting candidates and recruiters.
- Reliable computer, high-speed internet, quiet private workspace, and availability for the 40-hour weekly commitment and agreed working days and shift times.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
- Fully remote work from home supporting a distributed recruiting team.
- Structured onboarding and training on Bullhorn, Microsoft Outlook, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Google Sheets.
- Regular check-ins with the recruiting team lead to review questions and priorities.
- Skills development in candidate coordination, interview logistics, system navigation, and recruiting workflow support.
- Health coverage, paid leave, maternity leave, bonus opportunities, and stipends.