TA Partner, Early Careers
Greensboro, NC, US, 27409
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
Position Summary
The Talent Acquisition Partner, Early Careers & University Relations owns full-cycle recruiting for interns, co-ops, and selected entry-level roles while building productive relationships with hiring leaders and university partners. The role translates workforce needs into targeted early-career recruiting and engagement plans and uses data to improve hiring outcomes and candidate experience.
What you will do
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for interns, co-ops, and entry-level talent, including intake, sourcing, screening, selection support, offers, and candidate disposition.
- Partner with hiring managers and HR stakeholders to clarify talent needs, define selection criteria, establish recruiting plans, and provide market-informed recommendations.
- Build and maintain relationships with priority universities, career centers, faculty, student organizations, and other early-talent partners.
- Plan and execute campus, virtual, and community recruiting activities that strengthen awareness, engagement, and qualified talent pipelines.
- Develop targeted sourcing and outreach strategies using talent communities, referrals, events, social channels, CRM capabilities, and approved AI-enabled tools.
- Track funnel health, source effectiveness, candidate experience, offer acceptance, intern conversion, and program activity; translate findings into practical improvements.
- Apply structured, inclusive, and compliant recruiting practices and maintain accurate data in SuccessFactors and related systems.
- Support internship and early-career programming, including communications, events, manager enablement, and conversion activities.
Who are you?
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, Marketing, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in recruiting and/or university relations, including experience supporting or owning recruiting processes.
- Demonstrated ability to source, assess, and engage candidates and partner effectively with hiring managers.
- Experience coordinating recruiting events or talent programs and managing multiple requisitions or projects.
- Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems, recruiting metrics, Microsoft 365, and digital sourcing tools.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge
- Full-cycle recruiting, candidate assessment, university relations, and early-career talent practices.
- Inclusive recruiting, employment compliance, data privacy, and consistent selection practices.
- Recruiting funnels, source effectiveness, candidate experience, and program metrics.
Skills
- Consultative stakeholder partnership
- Sourcing, screening, and candidate engagement
- Event and program management
- Data analysis and storytelling
- Recruitment marketing and written communication
- Project management and process improvement
Abilities
- Influence without formal authority and set clear expectations with stakeholders.
- Balance candidate advocacy, business needs, speed, quality, and compliance.
- Use data and market insight to recommend actions.
- Represent the employer brand professionally in external settings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for technical, professional, manufacturing, or corporate early-career roles.
- Experience with SuccessFactors, recruiting CRM, LinkedIn Recruiter, Handshake, reporting tools, or approved generative AI.
- Experience developing university engagement plans or internship programming.
Key Competencies
- Accountability
- Customer Focus
- Collaboration
- Consulting
- Inclusive Mindset
- Growth Mindset
- Continuous Improvement
- Data Fluency
- Results Orientation
- Ability to Influence without Authority
Ready for the next move?
Working Conditions
- Travel requirement: approximately 25-40%, with seasonal peaks for campus and business-site events.
- Work environment: office, university campus, recruiting event, and occasional plant or business-site settings.
- Ability to support occasional early-morning, evening, or peak-season events.
- Valid driver eligibility and ability to travel as business needs require, where applicable.
Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Group People & Culture, a part of Volvo Group, we create the foundation and frameworks for people growth and organizational development, to drive the people agenda that enables the realization of the Volvo Group aspirations through people strategy and commitment. You will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead.
Nearest Major Market: Greensboro