Creative Dining Services is seeking a full-time Recruitment Partner to join our People & Culture team!
We are seeking a driven, creative recruiter who thrives on finding the right talent, not waiting for it. This individual will take a proactive, "hunter" approach to recruiting, building pipelines, uncovering passive candidates, and engaging talent in compelling ways. This role goes beyond posting jobs. It's about mapping talent markets, building relationships, and creative innovative sourcing strategies to ensure we consistently attract and retain top talent. You’ll help shape recruitment strategies, leverage data and recruiting metrics to improve hiring performance, help optimize enterprise-wide recruitment processes, and ensure every candidate feels valued and informed.
This position reports to the Vice President of People & Culture and will have a hybrid work schedule at our Zeeland, Michigan corporate office.
What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with hiring managers and executives to understand talent needs and provide recruiting guidance.
- Proactively source, identify, and engage passive candidates through creative and tailored outreach strategies.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines across key roles and markets.
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing to offer and background checks, while delivering a high-quality and transparent candidate experience.
- Clearly communicate role expectations, compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.
- Conduct and coordinate screenings, interviews, assessments, and feedback sessions with a focus on both skill and culture alignment.
- Manage offer development and delivery of decisions with professionalism and empathy.
- Track and analyze recruiting metrics (time to fill, placement retention, pipeline health, candidate experience) to drive continuous improvement and maintain compliance.
- Strengthen and promote Creative Dining Services' employer brand to stand out in the hospitality market.
- Continuously evaluate and optimize enterprise recruitment processes and ensure alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
What You Bring
- Demonstrated success sourcing and engaging passive candidates.
- Strong knowledge of modern sourcing tools and platforms, recruitment strategies, talent acquisition best practices, and employer branding
- Experience with multi-site (multi-state preferred), high volume recruiting; Hospitality or foodservice recruiting preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of external recruitment platform algorithms, metrics, and process optimization.
- Highly organized, adaptable and ability to manage a high volume of requisitions simultaneously.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and a commitment to delivering a great candidate experience.
- Familiarity with employment laws and hiring regulations.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, ADP Workforce Now preferred.
- Effectively develop internal relationships across the Creative Dining Services organization
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 Suite
- Bachelor’s degree business or related field and 4–6 years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience, or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
We Offer
- Competitive pay and incentive plan
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with a company match of up to $1,500 for qualifying plans
- Free mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program
- Company-paid life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match
- Tuition reimbursement and discounts
Why Join Creative Dining Services?
Our team members are like family – to us and to our clients. We get to know people by name and personal preferences to provide a welcoming home away from home for our guests and for each other.
Our Core Values are:
- Integrity
- Flexibility
- Family
- Creativity
- Sensitivity
- Sustainability
- Diversity
Creative Dining Services operates over 80 locations in 16 states, serving colleges, universities, Fortune 100 companies, full-service senior living communities, conference centers, hotels, camps, and independent K-12 schools to provide a different kind of hospitality and facility management services experience – one that’s fun, innovative, and focused on community. Why? Because that’s how it should be.
Creative Dining Services is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field
- 4-6 years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience
- Experience with high volume recruiting
- Strong knowledge of recruitment platform algorithms
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 Suite
- Experience with applicant tracking systems
What We Do
Creative Dining Services partners with colleges, universities, Fortune 100 companies, full-service senior living communities, conference centers and K-12 schools and camps to provide a different kind of hospitality and facility management services experience—one that’s fun, innovative, and focused on your community. Why? Because that’s how it should be. At Creative Dining Services we know that dining is much more than eating a meal: it’s a social hub, it fosters culture, it brings people together and allows them to engage in their community. That’s why our vision is to be the most trustworthy, flexible and attentive hospitality partner. It is only by fulfilling our vision that we are able to accomplish our number-one goal: enhancing your community with the customized dining program you both want and need.
