Recruiting Consultant

FBL Financial Group, Inc.•West Des Moines, IA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Farm Bureau is looking for a Recruiting Consultant that will support our field leadership by maintaining our extensive tradition of attracting, engaging, and contracting future high-performing agents. This is a great opportunity to impact the talent of our front-line agent force! With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars, and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We’re proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

Requirements

College degree (communications or marketing preferred) or equivalent, plus three (3) years of relevant experience required.
Proven effective relationship and consultative skills – with candidate, hiring managers and key business partners with ability to influence and inform.
Strong sourcing and networking skills with ability to cold call as well as generate leads through creative social networking.
Must keep up to date regarding all outside lead generation product sources.
Project management experience required.
Must have analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills.
Must be detail oriented and able to maintain confidentiality.
Ability to work from our Home Office located in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis.

Nice To Haves

Recruiting, communications and/or marketing experience preferred.
budget management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Engage candidates throughout the recruitment and selection process so they are fully educated on the Agent opportunity.
Educate candidates about the company through effective communication skills.
Develop and provide features, benefits, and value proposition information to attract best in class talent.
Assist with the development and implementation of marketing strategies that support Agent recruiting.
Consult and coach field leadership on sourcing, recruiting strategies, and centers of influence development.
Build collaborative relationships with field leadership, key business leaders, and stakeholders.
Assist with the development and implementation of sourcing and recruiting processes and best practices used in supporting and training field leadership.
Facilitate the onboarding process and vendor/candidate relationship through sourcing to contracting stages.
Consult on continued development of agent candidate tracking and pipeline management.
Work cross-functionally to leverage internal communication material and resources to ensure effective and consistent communication for Agent recruiting initiatives.