Recruiter - Bedminster, NJ

At Northwestern Mutual – Bedminster, we're looking for people who desire an impactful career and are energized by helping others build their own careers.

As a member of our talent acquisition team, your energy and passion for networking and proactive relationship building combined with your innate people skills and natural ability to persuade will play a significant role in building and growing our network office’s dream team of Financial Advisors. This role is a great fit for anyone with a successful background in sales and who is a natural at driving results. Experience in talent acquisition or finance is helpful, but not required.

We believe in our core values of relationships, excellence, legacy, ownership, and fun. These values are essential to the success of our firm and our individual performance. We strive to create an environment where employees feel empowered by our values and energized by our culture.

If you are a natural at building a network of relationships and passionate about your work being impactful then keep reading…

Primary Responsibilities

Sourcing & Selection

• Build and develop effective referral sources and productive centers of influence (COIs)
• Identify, maintain, and coordinate lead strategies from a variety of sources (i.e. referrals, COIs, advertising, social media, etc.)
• Actively participate in the community and organizations to promote / brand Northwestern Mutual
• Drive candidate selection process by screening candidates, conducting initial interviews, administering selection tools, and guiding candidates through the selection process

Accountability, Tracking, and Analysis

Qualifications

This role includes a base salary along with bonus opportunities for recruiting activity.

Competencies

Action Oriented : Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he / she sees is challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

Drive for Results : Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Interpersonal Savvy : Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Listening : Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even when he / she disagrees.

Priority Setting : Spends his / her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.