Recruiter

As a Senior Early Talent Recruiter, you'll be the driving force behind the company's mission to attract, develop, and retain promising students and early-career talent across Canada.

You'll partner with business leaders to design cutting-edge recruitment experiences that get students genuinely excited about their careers. This is your chance to shape the future workforce while building a high-energy, innovative team that's redefining what campus recruitment looks like.


Position: Recruiter
Competitive salary
Hybrid role:
12 month contract with the possibility of extension

Location: Toronto


Advantages
This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative and supportive team environment. The role will provide challenges and growth opportunities within a global organization.

Responsibilities
• Champion early talent strategy and lead the charge – Drive bold, data-first recruitment initiatives that attract top student talent. Set ambitious hiring targets, build dynamic pipelines, and ignited conversions every term.
• Be the strategic voice at the table – Partner with senior hiring managers and business leaders as a trusted advisor. Bring market insights, competitive intelligence, and game-changing ideas on how to win the war for top talent.
• Own the full-cycle magic – Manage end-to-end recruitment for co-op, internship, summer, and new grad programs. From creative sourcing to candidate experience to offer, you'll ensure every touchpoint reflects competitive edge and employer brand.
• Innovate and experiment relentlessly – Design creative, data-driven sourcing strategies across channels – campus partnerships, social media, student organizations, emerging platforms, and beyond. Test, learn, iterate, and scale what works.
• Energize the brand on campus – Lead initiatives that make the employer of choice among top student talent. Develop strategic partnerships across the enterprise to create buzz, engagement, and genuine excitement about careers.
• Leverage tech to drive impact – Evaluate and implement cutting-edge recruitment tools and platforms. Use analytics and dashboards to measure what matters and continuously optimize your team's performance.

Qualifications
Must Have
• Exceptional communication skills that inspire and engage students, peers, and senior leaders alike.
• 2-4 years of progressive recruitment experience with demonstrated success leading early talent, campus, or graduate recruitment initiatives.
• Proven track record building and leading high-performing, energetic recruitment teams.
• Strategic mindset combined with hands-on execution skills – you can think big while rolling up your sleeves to drive results.
• Advanced stakeholder management and leadership presence; ability to influence senior leaders with creative talent solutions.
• Passion for mentorship and genuine commitment to developing the next generation of talent.
• Event planning expertise and social media savvy – you know how to create buzz and drive engagement.
• Comfort with travel for campus activations, events, and team-building activities.

Nice to Have
• Advanced experience with recruitment platforms like Workday, Phenom, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar tools.
• Background in supporting revenue generating function, financial services, Corporate Finance, Banking, or large-scale institutional environments.
• Knowledge of organizational development, talent pipeline planning
• Experience managing recruitment budgets and vendor partnerships.
• Passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in talent acquisition.

Summary
The perfect position for you? If you are a motivated and experienced customer service professional, and passionate about service excellence, we want to meet you. If you meet the qualifications, apply now!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.