High Volume Recruiter, Talent Acquisition

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08)
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 68335
Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
In this highly visible role on the Talent Acquisition team, you’ll be an integral part of ensuring American Airlines frontline roles are staffed for operational readiness. Working with our internal team members covered by a joint collective bargaining agreement, you’ll offer recalls and transfers to eligible team members. You’ll also bring your high-volume recruitment expertise to devise strategic staffing plans to hire talented and diverse team members. And guess what? This position includes traveling to hiring events at our domestic airport locations where we often make “on the spot” job offers.
What You'll Do

• Influences overall hiring process to achieve timeliness and agreements
• Provide hiring manager accurate and timely update on applicant activity, tracks talent acquisition metrics and reports trends and issues to TA leadership, providing recommendations for improvement
• Conducts recurrent business calls with leaders to discuss high-volume hiring, including strategy and updates
• Maintains strong cross functional partnerships with Legal, Labor team, and other leaders and recruiter functions
• Maintains up-to-date applicant records in the applicant tracking system for accurate reporting and analysis
• Manages positive internal and external applicant experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Maintains strong cross functional partnerships with business, hiring managers and other talent acquisition functions
• Ensure American Airlines front line roles are staffed for operational readiness
• Conduct thorough intake sessions, clarifying staffing needs and responsibilities, and ensuring job descriptions reflect accurate knowledge, skills and abilities required.
• Manages specialty Talent Acquisition projects relative to the supported businesses
• Partner with multiple hiring managers to understand their staffing needs
• Travel up to 50% will be required
• Closely collaborate with vendors to provide guidance and/or clarification on union contracts, validation of pay scales, follow-up on requisition statuses, and process approvals
• Travel to domestic locations to attend hiring events multiple times a month, sometimes on weekends
• Responds to talent acquisition needs and inquiries from business leaders, hiring managers, TA leadership, etc.
• Acts as a resource to hiring managers on conducting behavioral interviewing, and facilitates selection process and discussion, in order to ensure effective, legal interviewing practices.

All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience/training
• At least 2 years of recent experience in a recruiting function

Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience with SuccessFactors or other large enterprise ATS systems (Taleo, iCIMS, etc.)
• Reporting experience relative to Talent Acquisition performance and metrics
• Experience conducting competency-based interviews
• Experience collaborating with RPO partner(s)
• High-volume recruiting experience, especially in a unionized environment
• Airline experience
• Experience organizing and conducting hiring events

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Knowledge of employment law, corporate recruitment practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate a strong customer orientation and influencing skills
• Knowledge of workforce planning (forecast, identify specific needs, skills, locations, and behaviors) is a plus
• Ability to think strategically; creative and innovative thinking skills, and the ability to exercise sound judgment
• Proven leadership skills
• Excellent relationship management skills, ability to establish credibility, and partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk and plans for actions

What You'll Get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.

Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 68335