G&A Recruiter

From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs.

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.

Your Impact:

We are looking for an empathetic, driven and mission-aligned recruiter to help us grow our team.

We are seeking an individual who cares about people and enjoys identifying, connecting with and hiring candidates from diverse backgrounds.

You will lead recruiting strategies, build key stakeholder relationships, and develop strategic candidate outreach while working with a curious, kind and passionate team. 

Your Role:

• Identify, source and engage talent to grow our team through creative and diverse multi-channel methods
• Ideate, implement and iterate recruiting and talent best practices across the organization
• Own hiring manager relationships and creatively iterate to improve our processes across recruiting
• Hire values-aligned individuals to contribute to Handshake’s mission
• Develop an extensive understanding of Handshake’s business and culture
• Design, implement and execute recruiting plans, partnering closely with hiring teams
• Regularly manage pipeline activity and provide recommendations for improving talent strategies based on data
• Work consultatively with senior stakeholders to shape and implement diversity recruitment strategy in a fast-paced, high-touch & high-tech environment.
• Influence business leaders and educate hiring managers on process, interview best practices, and decision making.
• Create new ways to surprise and delight candidates as they go through our interview process.
• Speak passionately and authentically about Handshake, our mission, business, and culture.

Your Experience:

• Full-cycle recruiting experience
• Successful at engaging and closing candidates
• Strong history of collaborating inclusively with hiring managers and interviewers to design processes that attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds
• You thrive in a data-driven recruiting process
• Working knowledge of ATS systems and pipeline metrics
• In-house experience preferred
• Bias towards humility, curiosity, and humor
• Outstanding organizational and follow-up skills, strong time-management abilities
• Great judgment and a history of working with highly confidential information

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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