D&G Landscaping Looking for Recruiter at Ottawa, ON Full Time

If you are a highly motivated individual who knows their way around a construction site, loves to talk to people and can reel them in, this role may be for you. Leveraging your exceptional charisma and detective skills you will focus on getting out of the office to find, recruit and onboard top landscaping and construction talent. We’re looking for a hunter/builder personality. We’ll give you access to a vehicle and the ability to get out in the field, and we’re looking for you to bring us the people.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Recruitment Planning & Sourcing

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships within the industry and outside it who want to ‘Help Us Build Ottawa’
• Work closely with our folks to identify where landscape and construction work is happening around town
• Plan your approach to get out and speak to people in the field – find laborers and talk to them about why they want to work for D&G

• Determine most appropriate and cost-effective ways to get in front of landscapers and laborers
• Leverage social media and multiple channels to build candidate pipelines
• Develop and maintain a list of resources/contacts/candidates

• Use applicant tracking systems to manage the job vacancies and move candidates through the process
• Report regularly on the candidate pipeline, prospecting activity and successful recruits
• Maintain communication with candidates throughout the recruitment process

• Provide HR Manager with a summary and recommendation to complete interviews
• Assist, as required, with the on-boarding process of successful recruits

REQUIREMENTS:

• 1 -3 years recruiting experience in an outbound, proactive or high volume recruitment environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to build quick rapport with people, in-person
• Naturally driven toward business development and a drive get people on-side
• Familiarity with construction or landscape environments, a definite asset
• Social media, innovative resources and online tools experience for sourcing candidates, an asset
• Proven ability to take initiative and look beyond current role openings and identify a pipeline of talent
• Ability to report on activity and demonstrate results
• Supported by a base salary but driven by the opportunity to earn more
• G license and clear driver’s abstract
• Local travel required, company vehicle made available for work-related travel

• Other duties as assigned

We thank all who apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

Job Type: Full-time