Talent Acquisition Specialist
LevataTalent Acquisition Specialist
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Date Posted:
Description
The Talent Acquisition Specialist owns full-cycle recruitment, with a primary and dedicated focus on campus and early-career sales hiring β including sales development reps, account executive associates, and new-grad sales trainees. This role builds relationships with universities and colleges, runs full-cycle recruitment for entry-level sales positions, and partners closely with Sales leadership to keep the early-career pipeline full, diverse, and ready to convert into future sales hires. Beyond the campus program, this role also recruits for other open roles across Levata's business β partnering with hiring managers across functions to source, screen, and close qualified candidates.
Key Responsibilities
Campus & Early Career Recruitment
- Follow a campus recruitment strategy to attract early-career sales talent from universities and colleges.
- Develop and maintain relationships with career services offices, business and sales programs, and student sales organizations to build a sustained talent pipeline.
- Plan and represent Levata at career fairs, campus information sessions, case competitions, and collegiate sales competitions.
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for entry-level and early-career sales roles β sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer β from requisition to start date.
Sourcing & Pipeline Development
- Source candidates through university partnerships, LinkedIn, job boards, employee referrals, and sales-focused student organizations.
- Build and maintain a talent community/pipeline for future early-career sales openings, so roles fill quickly against a warm pool of candidates.
- Track and report on pipeline health β applicant flow, conversion, time-to-fill, and diversity of pipeline.
Candidate Experience & Assessment
- Screen, interview, and assess candidates for sales aptitude, communication skills, coachability, and cultural fit.
- Coordinate interview panels with sales hiring managers and coach them on structured interviewing and consistent evaluation.
- Deliver a high-touch candidate experience from first outreach through offer and onboarding handoff.
Employer Branding & Programs
- Represent and promote Levata's employer brand on campus and within early-career talent communities.
- Partner with Marketing and HR to develop recruitment materials, social content, and campus event collateral tailored to early-career sales audiences.
- Support the design and administration of internship and new-grad sales development programs.
Broader Levata Recruitment
- Own full-cycle recruitment for other specified open roles across Levata's business, outside of the campus and early-career sales program.
- Partner with hiring managers across functions to define role requirements, build sourcing strategies, and manage requisitions from intake to offer.
- Balance recruiting capacity across the campus/early-career program and general hiring needs, flagging capacity constraints to the TA Manager as volume shifts.
- Maintain accurate requisition and candidate data in the ATS; provide regular pipeline and hiring reports to TA leadership and business stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience, ideally including campus/early-career or sales recruiting.
- Experience building and managing relationships with university career centers and student organizations.
- Comfortable recruiting across multiple functions and role types, not just sales, and re-prioritizing as hiring needs shift.
- Familiarity with sales roles and sales competencies preferred.
- Proficiency with an ATS (Jobvite preferred) and LinkedIn Recruiter/LinkedIn Hiring Assistant.
- Comfortable presenting to groups and representing Levata at in-person campus events.
- Travel requirement 30% including campus engagement.
Preferred Characteristics
- Relationship-builder who enjoys campus engagement and represents the brand well in person
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Organized, with the ability to manage multiple requisitions and events at once
- Comfortable with recruiting metrics and pipeline reporting
- Genuine interest in sales talent and what makes early-career sales hires succeed