Driver Hiring Specialist
Role Overview
Why join Penske as a Driver Hiring Specialist, you ask?
It’s simple.
A Penske Driver Hiring Specialist is responsible for sourcing, interviewing, and making hiring decisions for professional truck driver positions for Penske Logistics.
You will be the face of Penske-the person greeting our driver candidates and sending them off with a smile.
This exciting role will remotely support operations across the United States and Canada.
Based in Phoenix, AZ, you will work as a part of a team who is committed to ensuring a high-touch, personal approach with driver candidates.
In this role, you will have responsibility for the sourcing, selection, job offer, and scheduling (clinical services and road tests) within a complete life-cycle recruiting process.
You will interact with candidates and our field operations managers via phone and electronic correspondence.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about discussing driving careers and building relationships over the phone, have high energy and a positive attitude, and who have an attention to detail and capacity to deliver results.
In this role you will need to be proficient in the use of technology, being able to capture candidate information via phone while managing multiple screen computer applications.
This is a Monday through Friday position.
Position is required to be present in the office 2 days per week in Phoenix, AZ.
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Qualifications
- Qualifications:
- Experience Requirements
- At least 2 years of prior work experience in one of the following is required: supporting a recruiting function in a call center or in a customer facing retail environment required.
- Experience interviewing and hiring highly preferred.
- Prior demonstrated experience using computer programs such as including Microsoft Office, sales or contact information software, internet search, and social media required.
- Ability to listen, type, and accurately capture information simultaneously required.
- Prior responsibility for accurately following processes and procedures required.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Knowledge of transportation industry and/or prior driver recruiting experience is a plus.
- Bilingual Spanish or French-Canadian preferred
- Skill Requirements
- Ability to interact, in a professional manner with applicants, drivers and other employees
- Excellent communication and customer service skills with keen attention to detail for documenting/record keeping
- Multitasking is necessary, as is the ability to plan and organize workload. Must be flexible to handle pressure and work with interruptions.
- Ability to work independently; show initiative, and be a self-starter.
- Ability to learn new programs quickly is preferred.
- Willingness Requirements
- Willing to work in a fast-paced environment with defined performance metrics.
- Willing to work flexible non-traditional hours (evenings and weekends) is required.
- Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
- Physical Requirements:
- The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience interviewing and hiring highly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Knowledge of transportation industry and/or prior driver recruiting experience is a plus.
- Bilingual Spanish or French-Canadian preferred
- Ability to learn new programs quickly is preferred.
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