Recruiting Coordinator
From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round.
Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.
Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.
Your Impact:
We are looking for a highly organized, collaborative and mission-aligned Recruiting Coordinator to help us grow our team. We are seeking an individual who cares about putting people first to guide applicants through an exceptional candidate experience. This individual will work with our Talent function and hiring managers across the company to coordinate and schedule candidate interviews. Our Recruiting Coordinator will support an exceptional candidate experience by coordinating candidate schedules, greeting and hosting candidates while they are interviewing with Handshake. This individual will have a proven ability to take initiative, adapt quickly and calmly to changing priorities, work with a high sense of urgency and build strong, productive relationships. This person should have a passion for the recruiting industry and a desire to learn and grow.
If you enjoy collaborating across teams, engaging with values-aligned talent and helping individuals find meaningful work through an exceptional candidate experience, this is the role for you.
Your Role:
- Coordinate interviews for candidates with speed and efficiency while delivering a world-class candidate experience
- Maintain our applicant tracking system ensuring information is accurate
- Communicate professionally, tactfully, and empathetically while maintaining a high level of confidentiality at all times
- Be the friendly face of Handshake for candidates
- Collaborate on administrative projects as required to support the People & Talent team.
Your Experience:
- Administrative, project management or recruiting coordination experience
- Outstanding organizational and follow-up skills, strong time-management abilities
- Excellent attention to detail, including accuracy in spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Bias towards action, humility and curiosity
- Great judgment and a history of working with highly confidential information
Bonus Areas of Expertise:
Experience with Greenhouse!
Compensation Range:
- $53,950 - $68,900
Benefits:
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
- 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
- Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
- Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
- Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
- Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
- ...And much more!
We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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