LinkedIn Specialist

ABOUT THE LINKEDIN SPECIALIST OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for talent acquisition professionals with proficiency in LinkedIn to join our team as LinkedIn Specialists. We are looking for people who can commit to 20-30 hours per month for at least 3-4 months per year. LinkedIn Specialists will occupy one of our licensed seats and will be responsible for executing on a sourcing strategy as laid out by the project manager leading one of our searches. 

Typically, LinkedIn Specialists will work on 3-4 searches per month at 6-10 hours allocated per search. LinkedIn Specialists must be available for ~1 hour of meetings per week during business hours (9 AM - 5PM EST on weekdays) but can otherwise work completely flexibly. While this role is very independent, we strive to create a community of LinkedIn Specialists with whom you will connect and collaborate. This opportunity is open to individuals who are currently employed in a full time position who are interested in earning extra income.

COMPENSATION
This position is a contractor position that pays $45 per hour.

TO APPLY:
We are currently accepting applications for this role with plans to onboard on a rolling basis. Candidates should expect to hear from us within three weeks of application with one of three outcomes:

1. A notification that we will not be considering your application
2. An invitation to participate in a selection process for this position
3. An indication that we will not be immediately interviewing you but may return to your application at a later date

Candidates who are invited to participate in the selection process will participate in one or more activities that simulate the work expected of this position. We will be paying all candidates at this stage a flat honorarium to compensate for the labor that’s being asked of you.

ABOUT RCG TALENT SOLUTIONS - WHAT WE DO
RCG Talent Solutions works with organizations in support of hiring, training, and building capacity for their workers. Our long term goal is to build a suite of discrete, affordable services which organizations can access when they face capacity constraints within any function or at any level.

Over the last 5 years, we have worked with organizations primarily in two ways:

1. Talent Acquisition Services: We’ve built a suite of search services that are characteristic of an initial phone interview where candidates are invited to speak to and showcase previous work (e.g. artifact presentations of relevant previous work) and semi-finalist and finalist interviews centered on a collaborative work simulation where candidates grapple with a problem they might face immediately upon entering the role in collaboration with the hiring manager and key stakeholders. We have shifted interview processes towards a two-way try on that allows candidates and organizations to get to know each other in more meaningful and authentic ways before committing to employment. We have begun paying candidates when what is asked of them becomes time intensive or creates new value for the organization.

2. Embedded Support Charged Hourly: We’ve built an extensive network of kind, thoughtful, and talented professionals who we place with organizations to roll up their sleeves and work in response to their capacity gaps. Past and present projects have included high volume recruitment, DEI consulting, financial strategy and management, development strategy and management, HR generalist work, operational capacity, virtual assistant support, and more. 

Over the last year we have sharpened and codified our talent acquisition service, resulting in a set of services that are fast, efficient, and affordable – typically priced at around half of what leading search firms in the social sector are charging. When we can, we also offer our service at cost or less to direct service organizations, single site charter schools that are community embedded, and underfunded early stage nonprofits. Over the next six months, we will grow our team in order to meet demand for our talent acquisition services while also remaining affordable.

In the coming years, we will build more discrete services that we hope will allow us to meet the needs of  organizations (e.g. financial/development strategy and operations, virtual assistant, communications support, program evaluation, etc.). We view our talent acquisition service as an engine for our future services – both to raise the capital necessary to fund the development of the services and to provide valuable learnings that will inform the efficacy and efficiency of the services.

ABOUT RCG TALENT SOLUTIONS - HOW WE WORK
Some characteristics about what it’s like to work here:

1. We are a completely virtual and highly flexible organization with workers living all over the United States and keeping their own hours.
2. We are kind, thoughtful, and loving to each other. We are awed by each other’s professional strengths, tolerant of each other’s professional struggles, and rooting for each other’s professional growth. We value a balanced team rather than striving towards a perfectionist culture where every member needs to be excellent at all things.
3. While we are passionate about our work, we have full lives outside of our work – we are working to live, not living to work. We work a reasonable number of hours, we create space for each other to name our boundaries, and we respect each other’s boundaries.
4. We seek to build an internal culture absent of urgency and centered on trust. We seek to partner with organizations where respect, trust, and kindness are core to their culture and we do not maintain partnerships with organizations when these values are consistently violated.
5. We are imperfect – we still have some improvements to make to our search service, we are still building infrastructure, and we are in the midst of shifting some things to help us to better live out our values (e.g. cleaning up systems to reduce stress, moving to open book financials with profit sharing, creating an employee total reward package grounded in employee autonomy, etc.). There are some start-up realities at play here making this a place for workers who have high tolerance for ambiguity and change.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
RCG Talent Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. In compliance with federal, state and local laws, all hiring decisions will be made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are deeply committed to building diverse candidate pools for all positions and creating a work culture and environment inclusive of all. Women, people of color,  LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.