Description:
In this highly visible role on the Operations Talent Acquisition team, you'll be an integral part of ensuring American Airlines Airport roles are staffed for operational readiness. You'll bring your recruitment expertise to devise and execute strategic staffing plans to hire talented team members. And guess what? This position also includes traveling to hiring events at our domestic airport locations, where we often make "on-the-spot job offers. You'll be part of a broader Talent Acquisition team that ultimately provides the talent necessary to fuel the airline to deliver its goals and objectives.
What you'll do
Ensure American Airlines roles are staffed for operational readiness
Partner with multiple hiring managers to understand their staffing needs
Travel to domestic locations to attend hiring events multiple times a month, sometimes on weekends
Conduct thorough intake sessions, clarifying staffing needs and responsibilities, and ensuring job descriptions reflect accurate knowledge, skills and abilities required.
Proactively source talent, using various techniques, such as job boards, social media, and networking resources.
Acts as a resource to hiring managers on conducting behavioral interviewing, and facilitates selection process and discussion, in order to ensure effective, legal interviewing practices.
Manages positive internal and external applicant experience throughout the recruitment process.
Influences overall hiring process to achieve timeliness and agreements
Responds to talent acquisition needs and inquiries from business leaders, hiring managers, TA leadership, etc.
Provide hiring manager accurate and timely update on applicant activity, tracks talent acquisition metrics and reports trends and issues to TA leadership, providing recommendations for improvement
Maintains up-to-date applicant records in the applicant tracking system for accurate reporting and analysis
Maintains strong cross functional partnerships with business, hiring managers and other talent acquisition functions
Closely collaborate with third party vendors involved in hiring to provide guidance and/or clarification on union contracts, validation of pay scales, follow-up on requisition statuses, and process approvals
Conducts recurrent business calls with leaders to discuss high-volume hiring, including strategy and updates
Maintains strong cross functional partnerships with Legal, Labor team, and other stakeholders in the recruiting process.
All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience
Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
At least 2 years of recent experience in a recruiting function
Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience
High-volume recruiting experience, especially in a unionized environment
Experience conducting competency-based interviews
Reporting experience relative to Talent Acquisition performance and metrics
Experience with SuccessFactors or other large enterprise ATS systems (Taleo, iCIMS, etc.)
Experience collaborating with RPO partner(s)
Experience organizing and conducting hiring events
Airline experience
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
Excellent relationship management skills, ability to establish credibility, and partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk and plans for actions
Ability to demonstrate a strong customer orientation and influencing skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge of employment law, corporate recruitment practices
Proven leadership skills
Ability to think strategically; creative and innovative thinking skills, and the ability to exercise sound judgment
Knowledge of workforce planning (forecast, identify specific needs, skills, locations, and behaviors) is a plus
Top 3 to 5 skillsets / years of experience:
2 years of full-cycle recruiting experience
Experience with recruiting metrics, SLA, and KPIs
Experience sourcing for niche roles using LinkedIn Recruiter
Experience with SuccessFactors or other large enterprise ATS system (Taleo, iCIMS, etc.) Airline experience
100% onsite Monday - Friday.
Nesco Resource offers a comprehensive benefits package for our associates, which includes a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.
Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
