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Recruitment Marketing Strategist As Interstates continues to grow, attracting the right talent has become both more important and more challenging. We believe marketing plays an important role in ...

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Recruitment Strategists are professionals who design and implement effective hiring strategies to attract, select, and retain top talent for an organization. They analyze workforce needs, assess recruitment processes, and develop plans to improve talent acquisition. Their role often involves collaborating with hiring managers, utilizing data-driven methods, and leveraging employer branding to ensure the organization meets its staffing goals efficiently.

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A Recruitment Strategist works closely with hiring managers and department leads to understand the specific talent needs of each team. They facilitate meetings to clarify job requirements, develop tailored sourcing strategies, and provide guidance on market trends and candidate expectations. Additionally, they act as a bridge between HR, leadership, and external partners to ensure alignment throughout the recruitment process. This collaborative approach helps streamline hiring, improve candidate quality, and ensure a positive experience for all parties involved.

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To thrive as a Recruitment Strategist, you need expertise in talent acquisition, workforce planning, and data-driven decision-making, often supported by a background in human resources or business administration. Familiarity with applicant tracking systems (ATS), HR analytics platforms, and sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter is typically required. Strong interpersonal communication, negotiation, and adaptability are essential soft skills for building relationships and responding to changing hiring needs. These skills ensure effective recruitment campaigns, successful talent pipelines, and alignment with organizational goals.

What is the difference between Recruitment Strategist vs Recruiter?

AspectRecruitment StrategistRecruiter
Primary RoleDevelops long-term hiring strategies and workforce planningExecutes hiring processes to fill specific job openings
FocusStrategic planning and talent acquisition roadmapCandidate sourcing, screening, and interviewing
CredentialsOften requires HR or recruiting certifications, experience in talent managementTypically has recruiting certifications or experience in staffing
Work EnvironmentCollaborates with HR leadership and management teamsWorks directly with hiring managers and candidates

The main difference is that a Recruitment Strategist focuses on creating and implementing long-term hiring strategies, while a Recruiter handles the day-to-day activities of sourcing and hiring candidates for specific roles. Both roles require related skills and certifications, but their scope and objectives differ significantly.

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Talent Recruitment Strategist II

Lake Trust Credit Union

Brighton, MI • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

Lake Trust Credit Union rating

9.1

Company rating: 9.1 out of 10

Based on 11 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

Job description

Talent Recruitment Strategist II
Discovering and attracting talented people that embody our culture and have what it takes to deliver one of a kind experiences to our members is at the heart of the Talent Recruitment Strategist. You'll use your tenacious pursuit skills to find phenomenal candidates, through both conventional and innovative sources. As an evangelist of the Lake Trust Culture, you'll engage and build connections with talent to understand their passion and interests and help to spark an affinity for all things Lake Trust. Build relationships with hiring managers and serve as a partner in understanding talent needs and proactively working to meet them through pipeline creation. You'll be responsive to the big picture while keeping an eye on details to adapt and employ new strategies when needed.
What You'll Do
  • BE a Mentor - Provide mentoring to Level One (1) strategists.
  • BE a Partner - Partner with internal Hiring Managers to develop and execute talent acquisition/management strategies. Coordinate and execute the full life cycle of the recruiting process for managerial, professional level exempt and non-exempt positions. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with hiring managers, HR business partners, vendors, and Talent Recruitment (TR) team to create a partnership that yields exceptional results. Effectively partner with the TR, Learning & Development, and Total Rewards to ensure all candidate/hiring manager coordination activities run smoothly and efficiently (job posting, candidate scheduling, job offer processing, on boarding, etc.
  • BE a Connector - Develop a thorough knowledge of Lake Trust business and culture in order to help candidates fully comprehend and embrace their potential relationship with the Credit Union. Provide candidates with a compelling story to help them understand how Lake Trust and their professional and personal passions may align.
  • BE an Experience Facilitator - Create, deliver and facilitate a candidate experience reflective of the Lake Trust brand that is positive regardless of candidacy outcome.
  • BE Insightful - Interview and gather insights about candidates to be presented to hiring managers through the use of phone interviews, in-person interviews, assessments, reviewing of resumes, and other methodologies. Organize and lead post-interview debrief sessions with interview teams and candidates.
  • BE an Analyst - Review performance of open requisitions and make modifications to selections plans to increase effectiveness.
  • BE a Communicator - Provide regular status updates to key stakeholders to ensure that they have insight into the selection progress and vacancies.
  • BE a Strategist - With an understanding of job responsibilities, business requirements and talent gaps, create and execute comprehensive search, recruitment, and selection plans.
  • BE an Anticipator - Through partnership with TR team and HRBPs identify pipeline generation needs and implement strategies to ensure pipelines are maintained for crucial and hard to fill roles.
  • BE an Informer - Stay in the know on recruiting trends, market and environmental factors that may influence talent attraction and techniques and proactively share this information with key stakeholders.
  • BE a Networker - Develop and maintain a network of internal/external contacts to help source high potential talent. Participate in industry professional organizations, universities, and trade associations to position Lake Trust in the market as resource for great career opportunities.
  • BE an Innovator - Use conventional recruiting methods and incorporate innovative sourcing strategies to identify and attract the very best candidates. Seek to continuously improve the methods and strategies used to attract talent to Lake Trust.
  • BE an Initiator - Recommend and implement enhances to the full life cycle recruiting process and individual searches projects that further both TR and organizational goals.
  • BE a Relationship Manager - Maintain accurate information on all candidates, searches, hiring manager interactions, and other recruiting activities while ensuring OFCCP compliance.
  • BE a Power User - Serve as an administrator and power user of the Applicant Tracking System. Recommend enhancements that provide more effective experiences for candidates, hiring managers, and users.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Be a mirror image of what the organization is all about. Demonstrates enthusiasm and actions and behaviors are aligned with the organization's promise, values, service philosophy and commitments.
  • Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build relationships with all levels of organization and external customers.
  • Be an identifier of needs, and "takes the bull by the horns", and follows through.
  • Must possess excellent research.
  • Proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects with competing priorities and continue to make progress exhibiting a sense of urgency.
  • Proactive, independent and collaborative worker with the demonstrated capacity to lead, motivate, influence and work well with others.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm about the organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to take appropriate risks and learn from past successes and failures.
  • Demonstrated decision-making ability.
  • Demonstrated ability to meet commitments; must have proven track record of results obtained.
  • Ability to align strategy, culture, process, and practice to create meaningful work environment and achieve results.
  • Demonstrated ability to initiate, implement, and support change (e.g., organizational and/or departmental).
  • Ability to travel between 10% - 15% of the time.

What You'll Bring
Knowledge typically acquired through the completion of a Bachelors' Degree in Human Resources, Marketing, Psychology or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Three (3) years of experience in sourcing, business development, recruiting, client management, candidate evaluation and/or interviewing required.
What You'll Get
We know that pay and benefits are important. And, we've really got that covered. But, we also know that those are not the only things that you need to decide if this is the place for you. Join our team of Lake Trusters and you'll enjoy:
  • Working with an energetic team focused on making our members wildly successful
  • An opportunity to work with others that have your back every step of the way
  • Opportunities to make a difference both inside and outside of our walls
  • Being treated like you are more than the work you do
  • Must be a tech savvy individual who has a high degree of adaptability to adjust quickly to change and priorities.

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