Markon is seeking a Technical Recruiter to provide full life-cycle recruiting and sourcing support across the enterprise. This role is responsible for identifying, engaging, and delivering highly qualified candidates for active requisitions, strategic growth initiatives, and contingent/capture opportunities.
The ideal candidate is a proactive talent acquisition professional with experience supporting government contracting environments, building candidate pipelines, and identifying hard-to-find talent through creative sourcing strategies. This position requires strong relationship-building skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment.
This is an on-site position requiring attendance four days per week. Candidates must be able to work from the Falls Church, VA office or Columbia, MD, as required.
Responsibilities- Execute creative and targeted sourcing strategies to identify and attract candidates for current and future hiring needs, including capture and incumbent opportunities.
- Build and maintain a robust network of candidates using direct sourcing, referrals, cold calling, social media, career fairs, and ATS tools.
- Develop sourcing approaches to identify candidates with hard-to-find skill sets under time-sensitive deadlines.
- Generate and maintain a high-volume, high-quality candidate pipeline.
- Screen and assess candidates for fit against current and anticipated requirements.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
- Provide weekly recruiting and pipeline reports to supported hiring teams.
- Build and sustain strong working relationships with hiring managers across assigned portfolios.
- Actively manage the candidate experience throughout all phases of the recruiting lifecycle.
- Support additional recruiting and talent acquisition activities as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 1–5 years of recruiting and sourcing experience within the government contracting environment.
- Proven ability to meet aggressive sourcing and hiring goals.
- Demonstrated success identifying and engaging cleared passive candidates through multiple sourcing channels.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong organizational, reporting, and presentation abilities.
- High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented, and able to work independently.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Ability to work on-site four days per week at the Falls Church, VA office or Columbia, MD.
Desired:
- Recent experience (within the past year) recruiting fully cleared candidates in the Maryland area.
Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.
At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.
Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.
Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.Join us and make a meaningful impact.
Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.
Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 1-5 years of recruiting and sourcing experience in a government contracting environment
- Ability to meet aggressive sourcing and hiring goals
- Experience identifying and engaging cleared passive candidates through multiple sourcing channels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational, reporting, and presentation abilities
- High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to work onsite four days per week at the Falls Church, VA, or Columbia, MD office
- Recent experience recruiting fully cleared candidates in the Maryland area
What We Do
Markon is a professional services firm and mission integrator serving national-security and federal clients. It delivers full-spectrum cyber operations, digital transformation, and critical intelligence solutions, combining cyber exercises, defensive operations, training, threat analysis, modernized architectures, secure software delivery, data, cloud, automation, operational leadership, infrastructure alignment, process engineering, and software optimization to strengthen secure, resilient mission readiness across complex federal environments and national missions.
