Overview

A corporate recruiter provides a full cycle of recruiting services to their business or organization including sourcing, attracting, and selecting talent in collaboration with business partners.

What responsibilities will I have?

• Partner with hiring managers to establish recruiting strategies to identify top talent and target active and occasionally passive job seekers
• Post jobs for recruitment as needed
• May work with third party recruiters and develop professional relationships for hard-to-fill positions
• Work with business unit managers, directors, and human resource to identify and understand business requirements for open positions
• Utilize various recruiting sources to obtain adequate number of qualified applicants for staffing needs
• Verify employment eligibility of each applicant
• Collaborate with managers to identify and source qualified resumes
• Track candidates’ status through entire interview process and prescreen
• Execute various forms of interviews on a regular basis and provide travel arrangements as necessary
• Handle hiring paperwork from start to finish including the job offer letter
• Contact applicants to inform them of employment possibilities, consideration, and selection
• Develop salary offers for candidates
• Conduct candidate reference and background checks
• Follow up with new hires every few months their first and second years
• Develop and maintain external relationships that may provide referrals of candidates
• Continually create new, innovative methods to improve the recruitment process
• Attend career fairs and events as needed
• Assist in developing and managing employee training programs

What education and training is required?

A bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, agriculture or a related degree is required to become an agriculture recruiter.

To pursue a career as a Agricultural Corporate Recruiter:

The following high school courses are recommended: agricultural education, business courses, economics, government, English, and computer courses.

Where can I work?

Corporate recruiters work for a variety of agricultural companies, businesses, cooperatives and organizations.

Future Job Market / Outlook

The future outlook for a corporate recruiter will be good over the next five years. 

Suggested Professional Organizations and Associations

• Society for Human Resource Management
• Professionals in Human Resources Association
• National Human Resources Association
• National FFA Alumni Association