Consumer Recruiter at Korn Ferry US in Dallas, Texas

Job Description:

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 8,600 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:

• Organizational Strategy


• Assessment and Succession


• Talent Acquisition


• Leadership Development


• Rewards and Benefits

The Recruiter will play a leading role to provide essential recruiting support to the Consumer Team. Working closely with Managing Consultants and Sector Leaders the Recruiter is involved in leading the research and sourcing phase of the search including identifying, engaging and assessing potential candidates. 

Key Accountabilities

• Work with Consultants to create a multi-channel sourcing strategy to target companies and relevant potential candidates within the market.


• Conduct thorough research to navigate target companies and build lists of candidates which accurately reflect the client briefing.


• Identify relevant candidate profiles using variety of sourcing techniques. 


• Execute direct talent sourcing practices and candidate screening techniques to include resume pre-screening, telephone interviewing and shortlisting.


• Use competency-based interviewing techniques to qualify suitable candidates. 


• Reach out to engage passive candidates and screen them against agreed competencies.


• Work closely with colleagues and occasionally hiring managers to set expectations for the recruitment process and to fulfil the required search briefing 


• Conduct ongoing candidate pipeline development activities and talent network expansion for active and future requisitions.


• Balance deadlines and deliverables for multiple searches at a time.


• Maintain data quality and accuracy within the company’s internal database.

• Demonstrable experience as a full life-cycle recruiter from either a search, external or in-house recruiting environment.


• Experience gained in research and/or passive candidate identification and mapping / sourcing preferably with a knowledge of the Consumer sector


• Good stakeholder management skills and the ability to build and maintain professional relationships.


• A high degree of customer focus and attention to detail.


• Strong drive for results and a commitment to producing a high level of work efficiently and often within tight timeframes.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English with strong Office skills


• Ability to adapt to new processes and effectively deal with change and ambiguity.


• Willing to embody our core values: Honesty, Inclusion, Knowledge, Performance.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.