Staffing Specialist
The Staffing Specialist role will support the field, corporate office, and distribution center hiring managers by managing requisitions within the Applicant Tracking System; sourcing candidates for open positions using active and passive recruiting techniques; and moving candidates through the hiring and onboarding process. The ideal candidate is a self-starter; has strong interpersonal skills; effective oral and written communication skills; has knowledge of recruitment and HR procedures with an ability to be detail oriented and highly organized. This position will be temporary to assist with surge hiring.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Drives the candidate management process with hiring manager
- Source prospective candidates using Applicant Tracking System, job boards and community based organizations
- Builds applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, and internet sites; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport
- Attracts applicants by placing job advertisements; contacting recruiters, using newsgroups and job sites
- Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; comparing qualifications to job requirements
- Reviews resumes for appropriate skill sets to qualify candidates
- Conducts behavior based pre-screen interviews via the telephone daily
- Evaluates candidates against job requirements, engages candidate in the opportunity and presents qualified candidates to the Hiring Manager
- Clearly communicates expectations of the position to the candidate
- Manages the hiring process for selected candidates
- Ensures onboarding process is completely properly and timely
- Understand and demonstrate safe work practices at all times to ensure a safe work environment.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures.
- Complete special projects and other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to work with all levels of staff and management
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple searches, hiring managers, and projects simultaneously
- Strong negotiation skills and an ability to influence others
- Good interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy in work
- Service-oriented with a history of building excellent customer and candidate relationships
Experience and Credentials
- High School Diploma or GED
- Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers
- Experience using social media and other online methods to develop talent pipelines a plus
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web browsers
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems and job boards for sourcing
- Experience using social media and other online methods to develop talent pipelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple searches, hiring managers, and projects simultaneously
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence
- Attention to detail, accuracy, and strong organizational skills
- Ability to conduct behavioral phone pre-screen interviews and evaluate candidate fit
- Manage hiring process and ensure timely, complete onboarding
Jacent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jacent and has not been reviewed or approved by Jacent.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is available to eligible full‑time employees. This indicates tangible retirement support within the standard package for those roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — An Employee Assistance Program is offered, and some roles include mileage, travel‑time, and cell‑phone reimbursement alongside paid training. These provisions provide practical, day‑to‑day support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Full‑time postings describe paid time off, holidays, and personal days as part of the package. These time‑off elements reflect a conventional baseline for eligible positions.
Jacent Insights
What We Do
We Make Retail Easier. Jacent creates and procures shopper-inspired products, delivers legendary merchandising service and drives stellar results for our customers. Product Development & Procurement: We create, source and distribute more than 3,500 impulse products directly to 14,000 retail stores as well as sell via wholesale and online channels across the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Vertically Integrated Solution: We handle it all from product development to in-store management. We solve problems. Armed with customer-specific strategic merchandising plans, our merchandising team places the products in store and then manages the re-ordering and re-stocking to drive your sales. Legendary Merchandising Service: In addition to our vertically integrated impulse business, our merchandising team also offers retail insights and services, such as merchandising of clients’ products, audits and more to help stores run at peak efficiency.
Why Work With Us
At Jacent, our people are what makes us special and makes us the #1 impulse merchandising company in North America. We are looking for individuals that align with our culture pillars of We Always Play Offense, We Are Solutions Oriented, We Deliver Legendary Service, We Act With Integrity And Courage, and We Are Stronger Together.
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