Senior Campus Recruiter at Cognizant in Dallas, Texas

Job Description:

Cognizant specializes in helping some of
the world?s most established companies to stay the most loved brands in today?s
fast-changing technology landscape by advancing every aspect of how they serve
their customers: digitizing their products, services and customer experiences;
automating their business processes; and modernizing their technology
infrastructures.  We Engineer Modern
Business to Improve Everyday Life.

Our growing campus recruiting team is
looking for the right person to join us. 
We are gearing to disrupt the traditional campus talent pipeline with
innovative and technology enabled recruiting techniques. 

We are looking for a campus recruiter to
oversee hiring high-quality associates for Cognizant by attracting qualified
students through leveraging inventive campus engagement, marketing and
screening efforts.  The Campus Recruiter will manage the on-campus efforts
for a select group target schools and/or business units for full-time
positions. 

Note: This is a remote position

Role responsibilities:

• Work with business partners and campus
  teams to create and execute on-campus strategy and enhance the organization's
  brand and reputation at assigned target schools. Direct and coordinate campus
  recruiting activities that may include communications, on?site interviewing,
  virtual interviewing and other administrative functions for campus
  recruiting. 


• Drive all relevant recruiting activities
  such as presentations, career fairs, in?office and campus interviews, and
  offers.


• Attract and screen candidates based on
  varied business requirements across multiple divisions.


• Serve as primary contact for candidates
  throughout the recruiting and into the onboarding process.


• Manage candidate communications and
  relationship management by creating and fostering high touch one-on-one
  relationships with top prospects.


• Understand career interests and educate
  students about opportunities at Cognizant.


• Assist in the development and support of
  diversity recruiting efforts across targeted campuses.


• Manage relationships with key university
  contacts at career centers.


• Support campus team in additional
  functions including onboarding, training, and networking events.


• Update and monitor university and Cognizant
  online applicant tracking systems and report on hiring statistics as requested.


• Perform ad hoc administrative duties as
  needed.


• Travel domestically 30-40% of the
  work-time during peak recruiting seasons.


• Works with University Programs to
  execute and make recommendations for improvement against the recruitment
  strategy, campus relationship management, and campus marketing/branding.

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of experience in campus
  recruiting.  Previous experience in consulting industry/professional
  services strongly preferred.


• Creative, strategic, entrepreneurial
  spirit, comfortable developing and trying new methods.


• Demonstrated ability to build internal
  and external relationships ? both in person and virtually.


• Excellent interpersonal, communication,
  and leadership skills.


• Initiative to manage recruiting
  processes with minimal guidance.


• The willingness and ability to travel as
  required for campus visits, in order to fulfill the responsibilities of this
  position.


• Able to work a flexible schedule as
  workload requires.


• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Word,
  Excel, PowerPoint), SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.


• Strong proficiency in an applicant
  tracking system like Handshake and Taleo


• Comfortable learning and leveraging
  virtual sourcing systems and techniques including virtual interviewing
  platforms


• Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other
  U.S. work authorization, or lawful permanent residence (otherwise known as a
  ?Green Card?) for this role.