Professional Recruiter

Professional Recruiter

Location: Pasadena, TX

Openwork is looking for a Professional Recruiter to join our team and play a critical role in delivering great talent to our clients. In this role, you'll recruit and fill both direct hire and contract positions across the professional space, including areas such as engineering, IT, construction, manufacturing, HR/administrative, and other professional disciplines.

This is a recruiting-focused role where you'll own the candidate experience from initial sourcing through placement and onboarding while partnering closely with clients, account management, and internal teams. You'll focus on what you do best: finding great people, building meaningful talent relationships, delivering qualified candidates, and helping our clients solve their hiring needs. You'll also have the opportunity to develop your commercial awareness by identifying additional hiring needs and opportunities within existing client relationships and partnering with our Account Executives to help grow those accounts.

What You'll Do as a Professional Recruiter

As a Professional Recruiter, you'll manage recruiting activity for assigned searches and serve as a trusted partner to both candidates and clients.

Recruit and fill direct hire and contract professional positions across areas including engineering, IT, construction, manufacturing, HR/administrative, and other professional disciplines

Manage recruiting activity for assigned job searches from intake through placement and onboarding

Identify, attract, and engage qualified talent through direct recruiting, referrals, job boards, social media, networking, community involvement, and other sourcing strategies

Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines based on current and anticipated client needs

Conduct candidate interviews and assess qualifications, skills, experience, and overall fit

Prepare and present polished candidate profiles to account management teams

Coordinate interviews, manage candidate and client feedback, and help guide both parties through the decision-making process

Maintain consistent communication with candidates throughout the recruiting process and provide a high-quality candidate experience

Complete required vetting and screening processes, including background checks, drug screening, skills assessments, and reference verifications

Support successful candidate onboarding and placement

Conduct regular quality-control check-ins with placed talent to support retention and identify future opportunities

Coach and counsel talent regarding performance, professional expectations, and assignment-related matters

Maintain accurate and timely documentation within the ATS

Partner with clients and account management teams to understand evolving hiring needs and provide recruiting insight

Identify additional hiring needs, skill gaps, or potential business opportunities and communicate them to the appropriate Account Manager or internal partner

Actively skill-market qualified candidates to the sales team to help generate future client opportunities and job orders

Participate in daily team huddles and contribute to a collaborative, high-accountability team environment

Support administrative and operational needs for assigned accounts and provide coverage for teammates when needed

What Success Looks Like

Build strong, relevant talent pipelines and consistently deliver qualified candidates

Move searches forward with urgency, organization, and follow-through

Build credibility with clients and become a trusted recruiting partner

Develop long-term relationships with candidates and placed talent

Identify opportunities to support account growth and proactively share them with the sales team

Adapt your recruiting strategy when searches or market conditions change

Maintain high standards for candidate quality, documentation, compliance, and process execution

Consistently contribute to placements, retention, and overall team performance

Who You Are

Proactive and accountable: take ownership and follow through without needing constant direction

Relationship-oriented and emotionally intelligent: you know how to build trust with candidates, clients, and teammates

Resourceful and solutions-oriented: have the ability to adapt your approach when the traditional recruiting strategy isn't producing results

A strong communicator: confidently communicate with candidates, clients, and internal stakeholders

Resilient and results-oriented: maintain consistency and urgency even when searches are challenging or priorities change

Curious about people: motivated by understanding what makes the right candidate-client match

Organized and detail-oriented: able to manage multiple searches and competing priorities

Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment

What You'll Bring

Recruiting, staffing, talent acquisition, or related experience preferred

Experience recruiting professional-level talent is preferred

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to build relationships and establish credibility quickly

Strong organizational and time-management skills

Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a team

A strong sense of urgency and commitment to delivering results

Grow Your Career at Openwork

At Openwork, we're building a modern staffing organization where recruiting is a critical part of the business, not simply a support function.

As a Professional Recruiter, you'll gain experience across recruiting, client partnership, talent management, and the staffing business as a whole. You'll work closely with Account Executives and leadership, develop a deep understanding of our clients and markets, and have opportunities to grow your career as Openwork continues to expand.

If you're looking for a recruiting role where you can make an impact, build meaningful relationships, and grow your career, we'd love to meet you.

About Openwork

Openwork is a people-first staffing and recruiting firm with 50+ years of experience supporting companies across light industrial, manufacturing, logistics, office, professional, and healthcare sectors. Our mission: to build careers, companies, and communities, one person at a time.

Learn more at openwork.com