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Human Resources Specialist (Overland Park, KS)

Overland Park, KS 66211

Posted: 01/15/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Human Resources Job Number: 627849 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description


Key Responsibilities:
  • Consult and conduct recruitment strategy meetings with talent acquisition partners to understand gaps in recruiting efforts and needs
  • Build long term relationships with top talent for current and future career opportunities
  • Implement and execute strategic recruitment techniques for high volume, aged and hard to fill positions
  • Use innovative sourcing techniques and leverage technology to find active and passive candidates
  • Build strong partnerships with recruiters to develop plans for key staffing initiatives
  • Post and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency across all postings
  • Source candidates through creative social media tools and developing robust networking avenues
  • Initiate contact with passive candidates for openings and maintaining candidate pipelines
  • Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress
  • Recognize and assist with any situation within our business that can be assisted with HR support
  • Researching market conditions and industry trends as they relate to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
  • Using industry knowledge, social media sources, Technical Operations, and mission-focused knowledge to seek out potential candidates that may be currently employed at peer/competitor companies, and successfully identify candidates

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Ability to identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching preferred.
  • Comfortable monitoring key metrics and making data driven decisions in respect to adjusting recruitment or sourcing strategies
  • Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
  • Utilizing professional networks to source candidates 
  • Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
  • Recruiting experience, preferably in engineering or technical roles but open to other experiences also
  • Full Life Cycle Recruiting, managing hiring manager relationships

Minimum Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of talent sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably specializing in the recruitment of engineers within the domains of water, wastewater treatment plants, utilities, power generation, storage, transmission, and/or distribution. Candidates with a background in technical recruitment or other recruitment specializations may also be considered. Agency recruitment background is a plus.
  • Ability to quickly learn candidate profiles and identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching in a fast-paced changing environment. Experience designing recruiting strategies a plus.
  • All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

The staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly, never provide banking information during the application process and always double check the email address of the recruiter to ensure it’s from @theplanetforward.com - and not a domain with an alternative extension like .net, .org or .jobs. Candidate safety is a top priority at Planet Forward.

Planet Forward and The Planet Group of Companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

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About Overland Park, KS

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Although this hasn't been an issue at The Planet Group, the staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly and never provide banking information during the application process. Candidate safety is a top priority at The Planet Group.