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Requirements found
Onboarding Recruiting (must)
What this posting asks for
Level: Entry level — The posting asks for 1+ years of experience.
Main responsibilities
- As a SpaceX recruiter, you will run a full desk with a variety of duties and responsibilities focused on the sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboardin…
- Your day-to-day routine will change often as hiring priorities shift, but there is a basic set of activities you can expect to run with daily, including, but…
- Meet with your client groups to discuss headcount, new requisitions, hiring strategy, and/or interview feedback – you truly act as a partner to your clients …
- Screen candidates who apply to requisitions – as the SpaceX name brand grows, our job postings continue to fill up with stellar candidates
- Source candidates – often the best candidates are the ones not actively looking
- Discuss candidates you have screened with your client groups and recommend top candidates for interviews
- Give tours to candidates before their onsite
- Attend interviews alongside your client groups to act as another set of eyes and ears in evaluating candidates
- Once candidates are approved for hire, you will begin the offer process including initiating background checks, negotiating offer packages and extending offe…
- Some days you will have multiple candidates coming onsite for interviews and you will spend that time giving tours and coordinating the candidate experience.…
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Customer focus Core
In the posting: “Meet with your client groups to discuss headcount, new requisitions, hiring strategy, and/or interview feedback – you truly act as a partner to your clients …” · “Discuss candidates you have screened with your client groups and recommend top candidates for interviews” · “Attend interviews alongside your client groups to act as another set of eyes and ears in evaluating candidates”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Your day-to-day routine will change often as hiring priorities shift, but there is a basic set of activities you can expect to run with daily, including, but…” · “No day is the same here and the pace moves fast, but ultimately your job is to effectively attract, organize, and manage the flow of the country’s most talen…” · “Demonstrated expertise in non-standard recruiting methods: cold calling candidates and companies, organizing and executing ad hoc networking events, identify…”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “Once candidates are approved for hire, you will begin the offer process including initiating background checks, negotiating offer packages and extending offe…” · “influence decisions by acting as the subject matter expert on talent but avoid dictating client decisions” · “employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, ge…”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “Demonstrated expertise in non-standard recruiting methods: cold calling candidates and companies, organizing and executing ad hoc networking events, identify…” · “Ability to accurately present but not oversell candidates to client groups;”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Teamwork and collaboration Supporting
In the posting: “We work in teams and focus on collaboration yet require a high degree of autonomy.”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Ownership and accountability Supporting
In the posting: “We work in teams and focus on collaboration yet require a high degree of autonomy.”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it. - Data and analysis Supporting
In the posting: “Comfort with reviewing, evaluating and reporting on recruiting data”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
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- Built from this posting (8):
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- You have three urgent tasks due today and time to finish only two. How do you decide? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to get agreement from people who wanted different things. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you caught an error before it reached a customer or a report. From this posting
- How have you used recruiting in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using onboarding. From this posting
- Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
- Tell me about a task you took from start to finish without anyone asking you to. From this posting
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.

