Merit Advisors delivers specialty tax, valuation, and advisory services that help energy companies increase cash flow and unlock value enterprise-wide. For over 25 years, we have served as trusted partners across commodity cycles, supporting companies of every scale— from PE-backed startups to supermajor oil and gas companies.
What we are looking for:
- Takes initiative without being asked
- Thinks creatively about how to attract and engage talent
- Can juggle high-volume, fast-turn recruiting with exceptional attention to detail
- Is energized by ownership, collaboration, and building processes as we grow
- Brings strong judgment, crisp communication, and a persuasive, people-first approach
What Your Day Will Look Like
Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Own the entire recruitment life cycle for roles across the firm—from entry-level to experienced hires.
- Source and attract passive candidates across North Texas, South Texas, and Oklahoma.
- Conduct interviews, manage candidate communication, track feedback, and ensure smooth, timely processing.
- Lead compensation conversations, draft offer letters, and guide candidates through acceptance.
- Proactively build pipelines of high-caliber, culture-add talent.
- Think creatively about new sourcing channels, messaging, and talent engagement strategies.
- Develop candidate personas and refine job descriptions to better target ideal profiles.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, drive efficiencies, and enhance the recruiting framework.
- Support our Talent Acquisition lead on our campus recruiting efforts and strengthen relationships with target universities.
- Design, manage, and continuously enhance our internship program with a focus on meaningful experiences and strong conversion outcomes.
- Maintain and improve our ATS (JazzHR), dashboards, and recruiting metrics (Monday.com).
- Coordinate interview scheduling, candidate submittals, and cross-functional communication.
- Deliver a best-in-class candidate experience from initial outreach through onboarding.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, General Business or related field
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience; campus recruiting strongly preferred
- Experience managing or supporting internship or early talent programs
- Proven ability to manage multiple open roles with strong organizational skills
- A proactive, strategic, and creative problem solver
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence and build relationships
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and adapting quickly to changing needs
- Proficiency with ATS platforms, Microsoft Office, and basic marketing/design tools (e.g., Canva)
What We Provide
At Merit, we ask a lot of our employees, which is why we give so much in return. In addition to your competitive salary, PTO program, medical/dental/vision plan, and matching 401(k), you’ll enjoy company-sponsored events, continuous learning opportunities, and the flexibility to manage your work/life balance.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Marketing, Communications, General Business, or a related field
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Campus recruiting experience
- Experience managing or supporting internship or early talent programs
- Ability to manage multiple open roles with strong organizational skills
- Proactive, strategic, and creative problem-solving ability
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and build relationships
- Ability to work cross-functionally and adapt quickly to changing needs
- Proficiency with ATS platforms, Microsoft Office, and basic marketing or design tools such as Canva
What We Do
Merit Advisors provides our partners in the energy industry with the best financial solutions and vision to uncover overlooked savings. The team at Merit is built on decades of experience and insight throughout the entire energy value chain. Our strategic approach combined with our expertise, proprietary technology and data makes Merit Advisors the best at extracting trapped value and improving cash flow for our partners. When you partner with Merit Advisors, you get experienced energy professionals who are focused on delivering results so you can stay focused on your business. Initially founded in 1998 as an appraisal and property tax consulting firm based in Gainesville, TX, Merit is constantly evolving to better serve its clients. This client-focused nature is demonstrated by various service lines and offices in geographically strategic locations (Dallas and Houston, TX and Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK). Our 350+ clients range from publicly traded corporations to individual small business owners and are serviced by a team that combines engineers, appraisal and valuation experts and seasoned tax and consulting professionals that bring together the perfect balance of high quality and diverse solutions of a larger firm while not foregoing the “high level touch” customer service of a boutique firm.
