How to hire a campus recruiter

How to hire a campus recruiter, step by step

Here's a step-by-step campus recruiter hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a campus recruiter job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new campus recruiter
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring a campus recruiter, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect campus recruiter also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   Here's a comparison of campus recruiter salaries for various roles:

   Type of Campus Recruiter	Description	Hourly rate
   Campus Recruiter	Human resources specialists recruit, screen, interview, and place workers. They often handle other human resources work, such as those related to employee relations, compensation and benefits, and training... Show more	$18-44
   Staffing Consultant	A staffing consultant develops and maintains the accounts of clients through outside and inside organizational activities. Staffing consultants induct, assess, and monitor the job applicants preparing them for their assignments... Show more	$12-31
   Talent Acquisition Consultant	A Talent Acquisition Consultant is responsible for sourcing and recruiting high-quality candidates. They may work in an office setting or travel to different locations to search for new talents.	$23-47

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Human Resources
   • Reference Checks
   • Background Checks
   • Career Fairs
   • Taleo
   • Brand Awareness
   • Candidate Tracking
   • Student Organizations
   • Career Services
   • Colleges
   • Career Centers
   • Event Planning
   • Recruitment Strategy
   • Interview Process

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage and analyze all recruiting data, including ROI of campus recruiting efforts.
   • Utilize applicant tracking system (Taleo) to manage job applications, resume data and reports.
   • Recruit a team of QA experts to do framework lead solution as a testing bed foundation for quarterly regression testing.
   • Audit internal records to ensure accuracy of ATS database.
   • Create and conduct presentations to high school students, via PowerPoint.
   • Communicate via calling, in-person interviews, email, and LinkedIn recruitment tactics.

   More campus recruiter duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the campus recruiter job description is a good way to get more applicants. A campus recruiter salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a campus recruiter in Alabama may be lower than in Washington, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level campus recruiter. Additionally, a campus recruiter with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average campus recruiter salary

   $60,354yearly

   $29.02 hourly rate

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   Entry-level campus recruiter salary

   $39,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 19, 2025

   Average campus recruiter salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	Washington	$80,870	$39
   2	New York	$78,745	$38
   3	California	$77,266	$37
   4	Oregon	$76,297	$37
   5	District of Columbia	$72,804	$35
   6	New Jersey	$69,311	$33
   7	Minnesota	$69,023	$33
   8	Massachusetts	$67,222	$32
   9	Nevada	$66,342	$32
   10	Illinois	$65,952	$32
   11	Connecticut	$65,632	$32
   12	Maryland	$65,063	$31
   13	Colorado	$63,805	$31
   14	Pennsylvania	$62,876	$30
   15	Texas	$62,293	$30
   16	Michigan	$59,963	$29
   17	Iowa	$59,430	$29
   18	Georgia	$59,274	$29
   19	Arizona	$58,946	$28
   20	New Hampshire	$58,858	$28

   Average campus recruiter salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Cambridge Associates	$104,543	$50.26
   2	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	$100,520	$48.33	24
   3	Morgan Stanley	$92,478	$44.46
   4	Citi	$92,449	$44.45
   5	Invesco	$89,110	$42.84
   6	Ernst & Young	$87,673	$42.15	6
   7	Bloomberg	$87,602	$42.12
   8	Analysis Group	$87,307	$41.97
   9	Bain & Company	$86,529	$41.60
   10	PJT Partners	$86,203	$41.44
   11	A.T. Kearney	$85,475	$41.09	1
   12	Skyworks Solutions	$85,459	$41.09
   13	McKinsey & Company Inc	$85,089	$40.91	1
   14	Houlihan Lokey	$84,223	$40.49	2
   15	CVS Health	$81,777	$39.32
   16	RSM US	$80,816	$38.85
   17	Oracle	$77,662	$37.34	14
   18	Nomura Securities	$76,871	$36.96	1
   19	UBS	$75,674	$36.38
   20	BDO USA	$74,201	$35.67	1

4. Writing a campus recruiter job description

   A job description for a campus recruiter role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a campus recruiter job description:

   Campus recruiter job description example

   
   HeyTutor is the leading EdTech company that provides tutoring for over 50 school districts nationwide. After 8 years in business, we’ve served over 400K students and delivered 1M+ lessons. We are growing rapidly in our expansion efforts to help bridge learning gaps caused by the pandemic and support students in need. Our teaching curriculum and high dosage tutoring methodology has been proven to significantly improve test scores. We are proud to be ranked #28 in the country as the best startup employer by Forbes. We offer competitive pay for our tutors, consistent weekly schedule, and rewards for tutors achieving certain milestones.

   JOB INFORMATION:

   You will help us to recruit students for tutoring jobs in the LA area!

   Your job will be to speak with students on your campus to tell them about our tutoring jobs. You will be provided promotional job materials and a QR code for them to scan to submit their job application within minutes! You will report to a Campus Recruitment Onsite Coordinator.

   This is a week to week position, if you prove yourself in being able to effectively build and manage on-site teams and get results, we will retain you for more weeks.

   SCHEDULE:

   Monday-Friday. 3-4 hours per day. (Morning shift 8am-12pm or Afternoon shift 12pm-4pm)

   REQUIREMENTS:

   • You must live in LA and have reliable transportation to visit school campuses.
   • You must be friendly and outgoing in order to introduce yourself to students about our recruiting and job opportunities
   • You must possess strong communication skills
   • Excellent attendance is a must

   PAY:

   $20/hr, max 20hrs/week; submit weekly invoices to HeyTutor for payment

   
   HeyTutor recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disabilities, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find campus recruiters for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your campus recruiter job on Zippia to find and recruit campus recruiter candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   During your first interview to recruit campus recruiters, engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. During the following interview, you'll be able to go into more detail about the company, the position, and the responsibilities.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new campus recruiter

   Once you have selected a candidate for the campus recruiter position, it is time to create an offer letter. In addition to salary, the offer letter should include details about benefits and perks that are available to the employee. Ensuring your offer is competitive is vital, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and it is important to be open to discussion and reach a mutually beneficial agreement. After the offer has been accepted, it is a good idea to formalize the agreement with a contract.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new campus recruiter first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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