Contract Full-Cycle Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of designated open-search handoffs, ensuring seamless continuity for clients, candidates, records, and subsequent steps.

• Conduct intake sessions to clarify the role, business context, qualifications, success profile, interview process, and timelines.

• Convert engagement scopes into actionable search plans and oversee work within agreed service levels.

• Manage full-cycle searches from intake to placement.

• Deliver recruiting components included in fractional assignments.

• Develop sourcing strategies leveraging LinkedIn, networks, referrals, applicant pools, direct outreach, and job boards.

• Create or coordinate job postings, as well as review applications and sourced profiles.

• Build and assess pipelines of qualified candidates.

• Conduct structured, job-related screenings and interviews.

• Evaluate candidates’ experience, skills, education, motivations, and career interests against established profiles.

• Organize and prioritize candidates using documented evidence.

• Present qualified candidates along with concise alignment summaries.

• Act as the recruiting delivery contact for assigned engagements.

• Set an update cadence and communicate progress, risks, delays, and capacity concerns.

• Keep candidates informed, prepare them for interviews, coordinate scheduling, and communicate status and next steps.

• Facilitate client feedback, interview stages, selection, and offer communication through to placement.

• Utilize Zoho as the applicant tracking system and ensure comprehensive candidate records are maintained.

• Employ LinkedIn Recruiter or similar recruiter tools for targeted searches, passive candidate engagement, and sourcing pipelines.

• Use job distribution channels such as organic ZipRecruiter and select niche boards.

• Monitor source activity and modify channel mix as necessary.

• Report on pipeline status, stages, feedback, timing, and outcomes.

• Manage assigned work within agreed weekly hours and promptly raise any capacity conflicts.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of five years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with direct responsibility from intake and sourcing through to candidate presentation and placement.

• Experience recruiting across various specialties, professional functions, or role levels.

• Practical experience with multiple ATS platforms and the ability to quickly adapt to a new system.

• Proficient in utilizing ATS platforms for managing requisitions, candidate stages, notes, dispositions, reporting, and data quality.

• Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, or a similar professional sourcing platform.

• Skilled in building targeted searches, identifying and engaging passive candidates, and maintaining an organized prospect pipeline.

• Capable of managing multiple concurrent searches while ensuring candidate communication, client service, accurate record-keeping, and consistent follow-through.

• Ability to transition between advising a client, assessing a candidate, building a pipeline, and executing recruiting operations.

• Sound judgment and the capacity to protect confidential information.

• Ability to work independently and escalate decisions that require client or manager approval.

• Preferred: Experience in human resources.

• Preferred: Background in agency, retained-search, or contract recruiting.

• Preferred: Experience with challenging professional or executive searches.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Zoho and recruiting workflows, including LinkedIn and multi-channel job distribution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engagement as a 1099 independent contractor.

• Variable schedule of around 10–30 hours per week.

• Flexible workload that adjusts according to active search volume and stages.