Company Profile

Pontoon is a market leader in global talent management that provides a competitive advantage through people. Along with unrivaled access to data and workforce intelligence. Pontoon delivers global workforce solutions that reduce risk, increase quality and improve visibility and forecasting – while also reducing cost. Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, USA and with office locations globally. Pontoon is wholly owned Adecco Company. Pontoon delivers outsourcing solutions in the areas of contingent labor, SOW management as well as employee recruiting and placement in over 70 countries for nearly 100 clients, a global footprint that is broader and deeper that the industry has experienced to date.

Job Responsibilities

• Proactively researching and investigating new ideas to create innovative sourcing strategies 
• Sourcing active candidates from on-line databases, contact lists, internal databases, internet and social networking sites.
• Sourcing passive candidates through networking, cold calling, complex internet searches, and research
• Evaluate profiles of candidates and ensures that profiles meet hiring requirements 
• Acting as a search expert for a functional area(s) by understanding functional hiring needs, position specifications, and search requirements
• Utilizing understanding of job market, job responsibilities, professional competencies and transferable skills to read between the lines when matching clients to opportunities
• Partnering with recruiter(s) to generate ideas, leverage resources, and share information that facilitates an effective search process
• Creates job opening descriptions, facilitates description approval process and partners with Recruiter to ensure openings are posted.
• Responsible for sourcing and pre-qualifying candidates
• Collaborate with Recruiter to identify opportunities for process improvement resulting in customer satisfaction.

Required Skills/Experience

• Must have 1-3 years of high volume recruiting experience in agency or in-house
•  Ability to learn and navigate Applicant Tracking Systems quickly and possess strong working knowledge of recruiting applications (i.e. Taleo, Kenexa)
• Expertise in Boolean searches.
• Experience in Internet and database searches
• Excellent research and critical thinking skills
• Superior communication skills, organizational and time-management skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent phone etiquette/professionalism and cold calling skills
• Strong computer skills and ability to utilize HRIS system; PeopleSoft experience preferred 

Other Skills      

• Proficiency in Outlook, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Must be Internet savvy and experienced in using online recruiting sources and mining online databases