Recruiter

Who We Are

McMaster-Carr is an innovative e-commerce company helping customers build anything because we offer everything. We’ve thrived for over 120 years thanks to our relentless focus on the customer experience, adaptability, and world-class operations. Our curious, exceptional people are always at the center of our evolution, turning new challenges and disruptive technologies into opportunities to learn new skills and get important work done that makes our customers' lives better.

How You’ll Make an Impact

We’re growing our team to meet ambitious goals, and we know that great people are the key to our success. As a Recruiter, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how we identify and evaluate talent. You will thoughtfully recognize potential, understanding context, and surface insights that help us make thoughtful hiring decisions.

Your work will directly support our ability to build high-performing teams, refine our approach to talent acquisition, and deliver meaningful candidate experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with your management team, engage with candidates, and bring a discerning eye to every step of the process.

What You’ll Do

As a recruiter, your key responsibilities include:

• Talent Identification & Evaluation: Engage with candidates and assess their potential through thoughtful conversations, contextual analysis, and nuanced judgment, not just resume review.
• Candidate Conversations: Conduct phone interviews that go beyond surface-level questions to uncover motivations, strengths, and growth potential.
• Insight Development: Turn observations into ideas. Share candidate insights that help hiring managers assess fit and long-term impact.
• Continuous Learning: Reflect on hiring outcomes and share feedback that helps us refine how we assess and engage talent.

Who You Are

A bachelor's degree is required for this role.

We’re looking for curious, thoughtful professionals who are energized by people and ideas. Ideal candidates demonstrate:

• Discerning Judgment & Talent Evaluation: Demonstrated ability to assess diverse experiences and identify potential beyond the resume, focusing on capabilities, context, and long-term fit. Ability to identify and engage top-tier candidates.
• Comfort with Ambiguity & Strategic Adaptability: Navigates uncertainty with confidence, adjusting strategies and evaluation criteria to align with evolving team goals and candidate profiles.
• Insight-Driven Decision Making: Skilled at turning nuanced observations into actionable insights that inform hiring decisions.
• Collaborative Relationship Building: Builds trust across teams through clear communication and a shared commitment to thoughtful, high-impact hiring.

Cash Compensation

Total cash compensation is generally around $103,000 to $118,000 and includes a profit sharing based on company profitability.

Be Rewarded

We are committed to comprehensive benefits to support employees and their dependents, such as:

• 100% tuition reimbursement
• Medical, dental, pharmacy, and vision plans with no monthly premiums
• Industry leading company-funded retirement accounts
• Employee resource groups
• Inclusive, all-gender benefits
• First-time home buyer assistance
• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off for vacation and personal time

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Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and dedicated to providing employees a workplace with reasonable accommodations and free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. At McMaster-Carr, we do not make employment decisions based on age, ethnicity, citizenship status, military status, gender identity and expression, race, religion, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected group.

This position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship by McMaster-Carr.

Data We Collect

We may collect professional, education and employment-related data, and any assessments made throughout the recruiting process, to evaluate candidacy for employment. To communicate with job applicants, we may collect applicant names, contact information, and other personal identifiers, including those outlined in the California customer records statute. Through voluntary disclosure, we may also collect protected classifications under federal or California law (e.g., race, gender, etc.).