Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialists

Career Description: Recruit and place workers.

Industry: Business and Financial Operations

Other Job Titles for Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialists:

• Realistic: Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
• Investigative: Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
• Artistic: Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
• Social: Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
• Enterprising: Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
• Conventional: Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
• First Interest High-Point: Primary-Rank Descriptiveness
• Second Interest High-Point: Secondary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness
• Third Interest High-Point: Tertiary-Cutoff/Rank Descriptiveness

• Inform applicants of job openings and details such as duties and responsibilities, compensation, benefits, schedules, working conditions, and promotion opportunities.
• Interview job applicants to match their qualifications with employers' needs, recording and evaluating applicant experience, education, training, and skills.
• Review employment applications and job orders to match applicants with job requirements, using manual or computerized file searches.
• Select qualified applicants or refer them to employers, according to organization policy.
• Perform reference and background checks on applicants.
• Maintain records of applicants not selected for employment.
• Instruct job applicants in presenting a positive image by providing help with resume writing, personal appearance, and interview techniques.
• Refer applicants to services such as vocational counseling, literacy or language instruction, transportation assistance, vocational training and child care.
• Contact employers to solicit orders for job vacancies, determining their requirements and recording relevant data such as job descriptions.
• Conduct workshops and demonstrate the use of job listings to assist applicants with skill building.
• Search for and recruit applicants for open positions through campus job fairs and advertisements.
• Provide background information on organizations with which interviews are scheduled.
• Administer assessment tests to identify skill building needs.
• Conduct or arrange for skill, intelligence, or psychological testing of applicants and current employees.
• Hire workers and place them with employers needing temporary help.
• Evaluate selection and testing techniques by conducting research or follow-up activities and conferring with management and supervisory personnel.
• Review emergency plans of individual organizations, such as medical facilities, to ensure their adequacy.
• Conduct surveys to determine the types of emergency-related needs to be addressed in disaster planning or provide technical support to others conducting such surveys.
• Study emergency plans used elsewhere to gather information for plan development.
• Apply for federal funding for emergency management related needs and administer and report on the progress of such grants.
• Develop and implement training procedures and strategies for radiological protection, detection, and decontamination.
• Inventory and distribute nuclear, biological, and chemical detection and contamination equipment, providing instruction in its maintenance and use.
• Provide communities with assistance in applying for federal funding for emergency management facilities, radiological instrumentation, and other related items.
• Speak at conferences and events to promote apprenticeships and related training programs.

Emerging Tasks

• Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.

• Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
• Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Interacting With Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Performing General Physical Activities: Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Provide Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
• Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
• Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
• Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
• Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
• Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
• Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
• Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Detailed Work Activities

• assess staff or applicant skill levels
• compile information through interviews
• conduct research on work-related topics
• conduct training for personnel
• consult with managerial or supervisory personnel
• evaluate information from employment interviews
• evaluate qualifications or eligibility of applicant for employment
• evaluate reliability of source information
• fill out business or government forms
• hire, discharge, transfer, or promote workers
• implement recruiting procedures
• interview job applicants
• maintain file of job openings
• maintain job descriptions
• maintain records, reports, or files
• obtain information from individuals
• prepare or maintain employee records
• provide customer service
• publicize job openings
• refer clients to community services or resources
• seek out applicants to fill job openings
• select applicants meeting qualifications
• use counseling techniques
• use interviewing procedures
• use knowledge of investigation techniques
• use psychological assessment tools
• understand engineering data or reports
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use computers to enter, access and retrieve financial data
• use cost benefit analysis techniques
• use spreadsheet software
• use statistical cost estimation methods
• resolve worker or management conflicts
• understand government labor or employment regulations
• use cost benefit analysis techniques
• use government regulations
• use interpersonal communication techniques
• use interviewing procedures
• use knowledge of employee classification system
• use public speaking techniques
• write administrative procedures services manual
• write employee orientation or training materials

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• Average hourly wage (2007) -$21.34
• Average annual wage (2007) - $44,380.00

• Projected growth (2006-2016): 18.36%
• Projected need (2006-2016): 36,143
• Employment (2006): 196,892

• Educational, Vocational, and School Counselors
• Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
• Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
• Insurance Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
• Personnel Recruiters
• Personal Financial Advisors
• Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
• Tax Preparers
• Tax Preparers
• Tax Preparers