Sr Recruiter (Public Relations Industry) - Remote Contract

Korn Ferry Group; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is seeking a Senior Recruiter for a fully remote, 12+ month contract. This role supports our RPO client, a leading PR, communications, and marketing firm, focusing on high-touch candidate relationships and end-to-end recruitment.

You will source, screen, and assess candidates, manage client relationships, and optimize recruitment processes across a range of specialized roles in the PR industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-to-end recruitment experience.
• Experience interacting with Hiring Managers throughout the process.
• Experience conducting competency and behavioral interviews.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS).
• Knowledge of sourcing strategies including market mapping and Boolean searches.
• Experience recruiting in the PR industry.

Responsibilities

• Create multi-channel sourcing strategies to build candidate pools.
• Engage clients promptly and professionally.
• Identify improvement opportunities in recruitment processes.
• Conduct role briefings with clients and set recruitment expectations.
• Manage process and sourcing activities end-to-end.
• Use competency-based interviewing to evaluate candidates.
• Build strong candidate relationships and present opportunities to clients.

Skills

Full cycle recruitment

Client facing

Competency interviewing

Behavioral interviewing

Sourcing strategies

ATS experience

Tools

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Boolean search

Job description

Korn Ferry is searching for a Senior Recruiter for a fully remote, 12+ month contract opportunity supporting our RPO client, a leading global public relations, communications, and marketing firm. The ideal candidate will have experience recruiting within the public relations industry, strong proactive sourcing skills, and the ability to identify and attract talent for a wide range of roles, including specialized positions.

As a member of Korn Ferry, the Senior Recruiter will build and extend client relationships through excellence in recruitment process delivery including sourcing, screening, assessing, and marketing candidates to clients either in an on-site or off-site environment. The role focuses on high touch candidate relationship management as well as customer focus and responsiveness in client facing activities. The Senior Recruiter is the subject matter expert around applicant tracking systems, candidate sourcing methodologies and recruitment process effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and execute multi-channel strategies to source candidates that meet client profile and/or building talent pools for current and future engagements
• Conduct interactions with clients in a timely, professional and responsive manner
• Identify & communicate continuous improvement opportunities and strategies
• Conduct role briefing with clients and set expectations for recruitment process
• Process management and sourcing
• Follow agreed client recruitment process for recruitment delivery
• Use competency interviewing to identify and differentiate candidate in presentation and short-list process
• Candidate relationship management
• Effectively communicate position opportunity and client value proposition

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of full cycle recruitment experience
• 5+ years of client facing experience interacting with Hiring Managers throughout the recruitment process
• 5+ years of experience conducting competency and behavioral based interviews
• 5+ years of Applicant Tracking System experience
• 2+ years of experience developing and executing sourcing methodologies to include: market mapping, recruitment strategies and Boolean searches
• Previous recruiting experience in the PR industry

Preferred Skills:

• 7+ years of full cycle recruitment experience