Recruiter/Talent Sourcer

Recruiter / Talent Sourcer (Candidate-Focused Role)

100% Recruiting. Zero Client Hunting.

Do you enjoy connecting with people, solving problems, and being rewarded for your results? Join our search and recruiting firm where relationships matter, performance is recognized, and your success directly impacts your income.

Are you interested in beginning your career as a professional recruiter? Or are you an experienced recruiter who loves finding great people but is tired of the full-desk, hustle, client chasing?

This role is for you if you love finding great people without the full-desk, client chasing.

We are looking for a sharp, curious, candidate-obsessed recruiter who wants to spend their time doing what they do best: sourcing, engaging, and qualifying top-tier talent.

What Makes This Role Different

Your sole focus: building exceptional candidate pipelines for our firms searches.

What You’ll Do

• Proactively source and recruit top talent through networking, databases, LinkedIn, referrals, and creative outreach strategies
• Identify, assess, and engage passive talent (the kind everyone else misses)
• Conduct candidate interviews and pre-screens
• Build long-term relationships with high-caliber professionals
• Match candidates with roles that fit their skills and goals
• Coach candidates through interviews and career decisions
• Partner closely with a senior recruiter to support active searches
• Keep candidate data organized and current in the ATS/CRM
• Represent searches and opportunities with professionalism, discretion, and credibility
• Support offer negotiations and successful placements
• Deliver exceptional client results

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent or relevant skills and experience
• Self-starter with grit, drive, and resilience
• Engaging personality. You have never met a stranger.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and relationship-building skills (you know how to start conversations)
• Comfortable with cold calling and outreach
• Professional, outgoing, and service-oriented mindset
• High integrity and strong work ethic
• High attention to detail and follow-through
• Self-motivated, organized, and able to manage multiple searches at once
• Someone who genuinely enjoys the research + relationship side of recruiting
• Ability to function successfully in a fast-paced environment
• This is an in office position Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Why Recruiters Love This Role

• You get to recruit full-time
• Work on meaningful, high-impact searches
• Clear expectations and a focused role
• Opportunity to deepen your recruiting expertise and grow within the firm
• Collaborative, supportive environment that respects your craft

Compensation

• Competitive base compensation with paid training
• Performance incentives tied to recruiting results
• Your earning potential is directly tied to your effort, consistency, and results.
• Unlimited earning potential
• We would expect someone in their first year to earn $65,000-$80K with an experienced recruiter earning $75,000-$150,000

The VET Recruiter has a simple mission - helping our clients and candidates achieve their goals by building long-term relationships based on trust, professionalism, and results. We've placed hundreds of professionals including executives, managers, veterinarians, sales reps, and more in areas including professional services, research and development, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, marketing, sales, etc. with large industry leaders, midsize and 'start up' companies, non profits, as well as in veterinary hospitals. We have helped build start up organizations from the ground floor.

We specialize in the Animal Health and Nutrition, Veterinary, Agribusiness, Life Sciences & Pet Products industries and are industry insiders. By being on the front lines talking with hundreds of Animal Health, Pet Industry and Veterinary Professionals every week, we have unique insight on what's going on in the market before news hits the street. We know who the top players are, both employers and candidates, and are the firm that they call FIRST when they need a search partner on whom they can depend.

With our singular focus on Animal Health, Veterinary & Pet Products, there is no firm better connected in this market. Whether you need to hire one person or a team of people, or are looking to make your next career move, no one can help you achieve your goals faster and more effectively than The VET Recruiter.