Region Staff Recruiter - NY Metro at First Student in BROOKLYN, NY - MALTA ST
- Company: First Student
- Location: BROOKLYN, NY - MALTA ST
- Posted: Sep 19, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $80,000 - $90,000 based on experience.
- Experience: 2+ years
Overview
The Region Staff Recruiter is responsible for managing and executing comprehensive recruitment strategies across multiple locations and levels, including field-level staff, maintenance, and management roles. This position involves proactively sourcing candidates, fostering relationships with hiring …
Job description
- The Region Staff Recruiter is responsible for managing and executing comprehensive recruitment strategies across multiple locations and levels, including field-level staff, maintenance, and management roles. This position involves proactively sourcing candidates, fostering relationships with hiring managers and community partners, and optimizing recruitment and hiring processes to meet organizational needs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract top talent for various positions across multiple locations and organizational levels.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand talent needs, assess hiring strategies, and ensure successful recruitment outcomes.
- Proactively build and maintain diverse candidate pipelines through job boards, social media, community outreach, networking, and sourcing methods.
- Establish and maintain partnerships with community organizations, schools, military bases, and other external groups to enhance the recruitment process.
- Provide exceptional candidate experience through consistent communication and support throughout the recruitment process.
- Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, including sourcing, screening, interview scheduling, offer negotiation, pre-employment background checks, and onboarding
- Regularly track and report key performance indicators (KPIs) and recruitment metrics such as candidate flow, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- 2+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, with experience in corporate, agency, or military recruitment a plus.
- Proficiency in using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and sourcing platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a focus on relationship-building and customer service.
- Strong analytical skills to assess sourcing strategies and make data-driven improvements.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining high levels of integrity and confidentiality.
- Minimal travel as needed for training, team meetings, job fairs, recruiting events, and community engagement.
- This role requires English proficiency. Federal, state, and local requirements, including U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, require training, safety communications, company policies, employment documents, and other job-related communications be conducted in English.
Skills
Required
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Customer service
- Organizational skills
- Analytical skills
- Independence
- Integrity
- Confidentiality
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Sourcing platforms
Benefits
- Benefits including physical and mental health initiatives, medical/dental/vision, 401(k), and paid holiday/vacation.
- First for a Reason
- Salary Range
- $80,000 - $90,000 based on experience.
- Benefits
About First Student
At First Student, we are a family of 60,000+ employees who take pride in safely transporting more than 5 million students and passengers to and from their destinations each day! Our family of brands include Transco, Total Transportation, Maggies Paratransit, and GVC II. Our employees are at the forefront of safety and innovation; they create and implement the most advanced training and technology the transportation industry has to offer. MISSION Provide unmatched care and the safest ride to school, so when students arrive, they start and end their day with an exceptional experience and are ready to achieve their full potential. Safety is at the heart of everything we do Ensure our vehicles are welcoming and trusted places where students feel comfortable and secure Go the extra mile to deliver an extraordinary experience for our customers and communities Work together, act with integrity, respect each other, champion diversity and inclusion Continually seek a better way to do things with innovation, sustainable practices, financial discipline, commercial excellence, and operational excellence