Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist
OptiNizers
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇭 Philippines
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including job intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer coordination, and candidate handoff.
- Partner closely with leadership to understand role requirements, performance expectations, and hiring priorities.
- Translate business needs into clear, market-aligned job descriptions and candidate profiles.
- Source qualified candidates through job boards, referrals, LinkedIn, agencies, and other recruitment channels.
- Conduct structured initial interviews to assess experience, communication skills, professionalism, and cultural fit.
- Evaluate candidates for both technical competence and client-facing readiness.
- Act as a professional point of contact between leadership, internal teams, external agencies, and candidates.
- Provide regular recruitment updates, pipelines, and hiring insights to decision-makers.
- Develop and maintain standardized recruitment workflows, interview guidelines, and evaluation criteria.
- Ensure accurate tracking of candidates, interview outcomes, and hiring decisions.
- Conduct research on talent availability, role competitiveness, and compensation expectations in both U.S. and Philippine markets.
- Ensure a consistent, respectful, and transparent candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
- Handle candidate information with strict confidentiality and professionalism.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Specialist, or Senior Recruiter , preferably supporting professional services, consulting, or client-facing roles.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple roles and pipelines simultaneously.
- Experience recruiting for remote or distributed teams is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong client-facing professionalism; confident engaging with executives, managers, and senior-level candidates.
- High emotional intelligence with the ability to assess candidate demeanor, reliability, and communication style.
- Strong interviewing, screening, and candidate evaluation skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret market data and hiring metrics.
- Proactive, adaptable, and capable of working independently in a remote environment.
- Willingness to learn internal systems, recruitment tools, and firm-specific hiring processes.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with direct collaboration across U.S. and Philippine teams.
- Exposure to leadership and high-impact hiring decisions.
- Structured, professional environment that values discretion, accountability, and quality of hires.
- Training provided on internal recruitment workflows and systems as needed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
recruitment lifecycle managementcandidate sourcingcandidate screeninginterviewingoffer coordinationcandidate evaluationmarket data interpretationhiring metrics analysisremote team recruitment
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationclient-facing professionalismemotional intelligenceinterviewing skillsorganizational skillsdetail-orientedprocess-drivenadaptabilityindependence