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Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.
I. Job Summary
Perform sourcing functions related to hiring qualified personnel to staff positions, and represents the company in a professional and positive manner. Proactively implement talent strategy by anticipating key openings and generating applicants.
II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.
- Proactively build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for future requisitions by understanding the marketplace and cultivating relationships.
- Seek innovative strategies for sourcing candidates and building talent communities. Leverage sources such as job boards, search engine, internal applicant database, social media, professional organizations and community associations and any other marketing avenues to network, identify and recruit potential candidates.
- Research and provide business intelligence and market data to support ongoing sourcing initiatives.
- Partner with recruiters, senior management, hiring managers and local Human Resources staff to develop and execute sourcing plans based on business needs.
- Support recruiting team by improving quality of applicants pool to review and interview. Ensure thorough search, screen, recommendation and hand-off to recruiter.
III. Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory duties.
IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.
A. Education and Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant experience.
- Experience: Three (3) years of previous experience in corporate talent acquisition as a recruiter (in addition to education requirement).
B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
- None required.
C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to cold call and build relationship by phone.
- Strong selling, consultative selling and client relationship management skills.
- Strong organizational, time management and process management skills necessary to maintain high-volume workload.
- Knowledge of web-based applicant tracking software, social media and external database searches.
V. Work Environment
Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the work day;
- Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;
- Normal setting for this job is: office setting.
Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree or High School Diploma/GED with four years relevant experience
- Three years' experience in corporate talent acquisition as a recruiter
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to cold call and build relationships by phone
- Strong selling, consultative selling and client relationship management skills
- Strong organizational, time management and process management skills for high-volume workload
- Knowledge of web-based applicant tracking software, social media and external database searches
What We Do
WM is North America's leading provider of integrated environmental solutions. We partner with our customers and communities to manage and reduce waste from collection to disposal while recovering valuable resources and creating clean, renewable energy. We are on a quest for environmental performance, a mission to maximize resource value, while minimizing – and even eliminating – environmental impact so that both our economy and our environment can thrive. WM tailors its services to meet the needs of each customer group and to ensure consistent, superior service at the local level. Headquartered in Houston, the company serves nearly 20 million municipal, commercial, industrial, and residential customers through a network of 367 collection operations, 355 transfer stations, 273 active landfill disposal sites, 16 waste-to-energy plants, 104 recycling plants, and 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects.
