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Recruiter jobs in San Diego, CA
Recruiters find and hire candidates for open roles. They source talent, screen applicants, coordinate interviews, and guide both candidates and hiring managers from first contact through accepted offer.
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$27–$68/hr
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Guidant Global — provide mission‑critical skillsets across Engineering, IT, Life Sciences, and Professional Services. The Senior Recruiter plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality talent solutions to enterprise an…
$24 - $26 per hour
answered “YES” to any of those questions, keep reading and apply today! Cheer Home Care is hiring an Administrative Assistant / Recruiter to work in the Cheer office. The Administrative Assistant will support the team wi…
$800 - $2,000 per week
Work From Home Truck Driver Recruiter – Earn $800–$2,000+/Week – Leads & Ad Support Provided Location: 100% Remote – Work from anywhere Schedule: Flexible Inquire about our hire own bonus About the Role: Are you a motiva…
$120k - $140k
elevate how we attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent. This is first and foremost a hands-on TA leadership role, you will set recruiting strategy, run searches end to end, and raise the bar on candidate and hiring-…
$55.3k - $126k
The Opportunity Provide support to all phases of the program management life cycle for a DoD client program office, including assisting in monitoring task execution, working with the team in identifying and mitigating pr…
SimulStat Incorporated is looking for a motivated, energetic, and focused recruiter to join our growing team. SimulStat provides contract statistical programmers, biostatisticians, and epidemiologists to the pharmaceutic…
$70k - $75k
POSITION TITLE: Legal Recruiter LOCATION: Hybrid (San Diego, CA, Orange, CA, Phoenix, AZ, Austin, TX, or surrounding markets considered) COMPENSATION: $70,000 - $75,000 annually + Uncapped Commission *Compensation in thi…
Talent Consultant – Engineering & Technical Recruiting (Embedded RPO / Talent Acquisition Consultant) Position Overview Ignite Human Capital is seeking an experienced Talent Consultant to support a leading engineering co…
Ignite Human Capital is seeking an experienced Talent Consultant to support a leading investment management organization through a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Talent Advisory engagement. This consultant wil…
Talent Consultant – Biotech & Life Sciences Recruiting (Embedded RPO / Talent Acquisition Consultant) Position Overview Ignite Human Capital is seeking an experienced Talent Consultant to support a high-growth biotechnol…
$24.72 per hour
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What recruiters earn in San Diego
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $27–$37 | $57k–$77k |
| Mid level | $37–$51 | $77k–$106k |
| Senior | $48–$68 | $100k–$142k |
Adjusted for the San Diego market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Candidate sourcingLinkedIn RecruiterATS (Greenhouse, Lever)Interviewing and screeningOffer negotiationHiring manager partnershipPipeline metricsCandidate experienceBoolean search
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through how you fill a role from intake to offer.
Show a structured process: a real intake conversation, a sourcing plan, calibrated screening, tight scheduling, and a managed offer stage. Mention typical timelines.
How do you source candidates for a hard-to-fill role?
Go beyond job posts: Boolean and X-ray search, communities, referrals, and re-engaging past candidates. Give an example of a creative find that closed.
What are your recruiting metrics?
Know your numbers: requisitions carried, time to fill, pass-through rates, and offer acceptance. Explain what you changed when a metric lagged.
How do you handle a hiring manager with unrealistic expectations?
Describe using market data — comp benchmarks, pipeline evidence — to recalibrate, and proposing tradeoffs between requirements, budget, and speed.
Tell me about an offer you almost lost and how you saved it.
Show that you understood the candidate's real motivators early, pre-closed before the formal offer, and moved fast when a competing offer appeared.
How do you keep candidates warm during a slow process?
Talk about honest, proactive communication on cadence, sharing what you can about timing, and never letting a candidate learn about delays from silence.
How do you reduce bias in your screening process?
Mention structured interviews, consistent scorecards, and skills-based criteria set at intake, rather than gut feel and resume pattern-matching.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For recruiters specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Lead with hires per year and the role types you filled; volume plus difficulty is the core signal.
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Include time-to-fill and offer-acceptance numbers against team or industry baselines.
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Name your ATS and sourcing stack precisely, since agencies and in-house teams both screen for tool fluency.
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Distinguish agency versus in-house experience clearly; hiring teams weigh them differently.
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Show one sourcing win in a niche market, describing how you found and closed a candidate others could not.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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Recruiting Manager
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Director of Talent Acquisition
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