Role Overview
The Recruiter will support high-growth hiring initiatives in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment. This role is responsible for managing multiple requisitions simultaneously, building qualified candidate pipelines, and delivering a high-quality experience for candidates and hiring stakeholders.
The Recruiter will operate as part of a vendor-delivered recruiting solution and is expected to work with urgency, independently prioritize competing demands, and consistently meet agreed hiring and service-level expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Manage a portfolio of open requisitions simultaneously, typically 10–15 or more direct-hire searches or an equivalent volume of high-volume roles.
Lead full-cycle recruiting activities, including sourcing, candidate outreach, screening, interview coordination, candidate assessment, offer support, and closing.
Develop and maintain qualified candidate pipelines across multiple roles, skill sets, industries, or customer segments.
Partner with hiring managers and designated stakeholders to clarify role requirements, candidate profiles, hiring priorities, and timelines.
Conduct a high volume of candidate outreach, screening conversations, and interviews to achieve established weekly and monthly activity and hiring targets.
Maintain accurate and timely candidate, requisition, and pipeline information in designated recruiting systems and tools.
Provide regular updates on pipeline health, candidate quality, hiring progress, risks, and anticipated time-to-fill.
Identify delivery risks or hiring challenges early and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
Use recruiting data and market intelligence to advise stakeholders on talent availability, candidate expectations, sourcing strategies, and competitive conditions.
Support candidate offer discussions and closing strategies within established approval processes and guidelines.
Deliver a professional, inclusive, and consistent candidate experience throughout the recruiting process.
Follow all applicable client policies, vendor procedures, confidentiality requirements, data privacy standards, and local employment regulations.
Participate in required training, calibration sessions, performance reviews, and governance meetings.
Required Qualifications
At least two years of professional experience in recruiting, staffing, agency recruiting, recruitment process outsourcing, sourcing, sales, or another production-based and performance-driven environment.
Demonstrated experience managing multiple requisitions, candidate pipelines, customer accounts, or comparable workstreams concurrently.
Experience sourcing candidates and conducting screening interviews to evaluate qualifications, motivation, and role fit.
Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, organizational, and telephone communication skills.
Ability to manage time effectively, prioritize competing tasks, meet deadlines, and work with limited supervision.
Ability to perform effectively in a high-volume environment with defined productivity, quality, and hiring targets.
Experience using applicant tracking systems, candidate relationship management platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, or comparable recruiting tools.
Ability to maintain accurate records and appropriately handle confidential candidate and business information.
Professional proficiency in the language or languages required for the supported market
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting recruitment process outsourcing or direct-placement recruiting programs.
Experience recruiting for small and medium-sized business customers or supporting multiple hiring stakeholders.
Experience managing 10–15 or more concurrent direct-hire searches or comparable high-volume recruiting workloads.
Ability to analyze recruiting data and use findings to improve hiring decisions, pipeline development, and stakeholder recommendations.
Experience developing sourcing and hiring strategies for difficult-to-fill or time-sensitive roles.
Experience supporting offer negotiations and candidate closing activities.
Familiarity with the talent market and employment environment in the proposed delivery location.
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.