Talent Acquisition Specialist (Contract)

Ford Motor Company · Palo Alto, CA

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a tech explosion in the automotive industry and make a huge impact on our growing team. We are looking for an innovative, passionate, and highly-motivated Talent Specialist to help deliver an amazing candidate experience. This person will partner with hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers to ensure a seamless hiring process. If you’re hungry to learn and eager to take on this exciting role, we want to hear from you! This opportunity has a lot of room for growth and has the potential to lead into other positions within the Recruiting Team. 

  • Partner with hiring managers, recruiters, and candidates to coordinate and schedule interviews 
  • Work with complex and shifting calendars across multiple time zones and facilitate any schedule changes 
  • Collaborate with other recruiting coordinators on best practices to streamline scheduling processes 
  • Help expand our University Program and assist with high-volume scheduling during each recruitment term 
  • Regularly manage pipeline activity and maintain data integrity, and proactively share data-centric updates with internal stakeholders 
  • Participate in intake meetings with hiring managers to understand needs, ensuring alignment between job descriptions, and target candidate profiles 
  • Help to identify and improve current processes to optimize workflows and make operations seamless 
  • Support the recruiting team with ad-hoc projects as needed 

Minimum Requirements 

  • 1+ years of experience in a Recruiting Coordinator or similar role 
  • 4+ years of overall work experience 
  • Experience working with applicant tracking systems 

  

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Self-motivated and driven: you look for solutions and impact without being asked twice 
  • You are curious. You look to dig deeper beyond the surface level of a job profile; researching market trends and domain technology and seeking out information to have a solid understanding of the business. You ask for feedback, and want to grow and develop in your career. 
  • Problem solver: you think through problems and come up with innovative solutions and deliver them against tight deadlines 

  

This is a contract role for 1 yr+. 

HR pay context

Based on 1,113 disclosed HR salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $121K/year, with most offers between $90K and $163K (10th–90th percentile: $71K–$196K).

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