Position Summary
The Recruiting Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of the full cycle recruiting process, leading and managing a team of recruiters, developing and implementing recruitment strategies, and partnering with hiring managers to understand recruiting needs. Oversee the recruitment process, from sourcing to hiring, ensuring compliance with regulations. The Recruiting Manager uses high energy and professionalism to implement and manage strategies to continue to attract top talent to the organization. Providing guidance, mentoring, and development for recruiters, setting goals and ensuring team performance.Duties & Responsibilities- Manage all aspects of the recruitment life cycle process from entering a requisition, screening and identifying qualified candidates, partnering with the hiring manager to the offer stage and focusing on higher level roles such as director level and above.
- Develop innovative strategies to attract top talent, enhance candidate experience, and support organizational growth.
- Oversee a team of recruiting specialists and collaborate closely with hiring managers to ensure timely and successful hiring outcomes across all departments.
- Manage the workload assignments for the Recruiting Team in coordination with workload strategy to ensure an even distribution of roles.
- Ensure a seamless best in class candidate experience during the recruitment process.
- Build strong partnerships with HRBP'S and key business stakeholders to develop staffing initiatives.
- Conduct intake calls with the hiring manager to gather information about the role to identify strong candidates.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing needs, developing strategies to meet those needs, and ensuring alignment between recruitment efforts and business objectives.
- Review applications, conduct phone screens, evaluate candidate’s qualifications, submit the most qualified candidates that align with Busey company values.
- Facilitate and participate in the interviewing and hiring process; develop candidate summaries, schedule individual/team interviews, evaluate and propose compensation packages, prepare offer letters and submit background checks.
- Foster strategic recruitment initiatives, design high-impact hiring campaigns, and foster strong brand and community engagements ensuring the organization attracts and retains top talent.
- Creating and executing strategies to attract and fill open positions, including sourcing techniques, and candidate engagement.
- Focus on both short-term and long-term workforce planning.
- Maintain accurate applicants and hiring data in the applicant tracking system
- Partner with recruiting manager on efforts to share team resources.
- Understand organization needs, identify target talent pools, and develop effective sourcing tools.
- Provide continuous coaching and feedback to the Recruiting Specialist in support of individual and team development.
- Ensuring every recruiter works to their fullest potential and delivers assigned tasks with the highest proficiency.
- Guide the recruiters towards achieving company goals, promoting a positive team culture, and equipping team members with the necessary tools to be set up for success.
- Identify, suggest and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness on the recruiting team.
- Other duties as assigned and partner with the Human Resources Team.
Experience & Skills:
- Minimum of seven years of experience including requisition management, candidate sourcing and screening/interviewing, internal and /or external relationship management.
- At least two years of experience leading a recruiting/talent acquisition team.
- Previous experience in a banking or financial institution preferred.
- Proficiency in applicant tracking systems (ATS).
- In depth knowledge of recruitment workflow processes, sourcing techniques and best practices.
- Proven track record or managing high-volume recruitment teams across various departments and levels.
- Strong knowledge of recruitment best practices and labor laws.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills and the ability to build working relationships with various stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to delegate tasks.
- Pay Equity, compensation strategy and talent management experience preferred.
- Prior experience engaging in Vendor management and contracts.
- Requires knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Ability to:
- Assist in the enforcement of First Busey Corporation policies and procedures as well as state and federal laws and regulations.
- Proven ability to implement and improve recruiting strategies and processes.
- Maintain confidentiality of associate information.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or a combination of relevant work and educational experience required.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.
(Base Pay Range: ($80,000 - $95,000)
Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.
Equal Opportunity
Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.
Unsolicited Resumes
Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.
Skills Required
- Minimum of seven years of experience including requisition management, candidate sourcing, screening/interviewing, and relationship management.
- At least two years of experience leading a recruiting/talent acquisition team.
- Previous experience in a banking or financial institution.
- Proficiency in applicant tracking systems (ATS).
- In-depth knowledge of recruitment workflow processes, sourcing techniques and best practices.
- Proven track record of managing high-volume recruitment teams across various departments and levels.
- Strong knowledge of recruitment best practices and labor laws.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills and ability to build working relationships with stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to delegate tasks.
- Pay equity, compensation strategy and talent management experience.
- Prior experience engaging in vendor management and contracts.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant work and educational experience.
Busey Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Busey and has not been reviewed or approved by Busey.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company match alongside a profit‑sharing plan, creating multiple employer‑supported savings channels. This structure strengthens long‑term financial security beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available, adding an ownership pathway that complements traditional retirement benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and volunteer time off are included, supporting time away for family and community. Flexible scheduling features in some materials further support practical use of time off.
Busey Insights
What We Do
As of September 30, 2023, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) was a $12.26 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank, a wholly-owned bank subsidiary of First Busey Corporation, had total assets of $12.23 billion as of September 30, 2023, and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank currently has 46 banking centers serving Illinois, eight banking centers serving Missouri, three banking centers serving southwest Florida, and one banking center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Through Busey’s Wealth Management division, the Company provides asset management, investment, and fiduciary services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. Assets under care totaled $11.55 billion as of September 30, 2023. Busey Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary, FirsTech, specializes in the evolving financial technology needs of small and medium-sized businesses, highly regulated enterprise industries, and financial institutions. FirsTech provides comprehensive and innovative payment technology solutions including online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money and data movement; merchant services; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments at retail agents. More information about FirsTech can be found at firstechpayments.com. Busey Bank is honored to be named among America’s Best Banks by Forbes magazine for the second consecutive year. Ranked 26th overall in 2023, compared to 52nd in last year's rankings. Busey was named among DiversityInc’s Top Regional Companies. The DiversityInc Top 50 survey is the external validator for large U.S. employers that model fairness in their talent strategy, workplace and supplier diversity practices, and philanthropic engagement. We are honored to be consistently recognized nationally and locally for our engaged culture of integrity and commitment to community development. For more information about us, visit busey.com.








