What is an Employment Coordinator?

As a coordinator, you're in charge of organizing, planning, and executing events or activities properly. That can even include making sure the team that you lead works together efficiently and effectively.

Most coordinators earn a bachelor's degree before even considering this job and a lot of them have prior leadership experience. Either way, you need to make sure you can prove that you can lead a team to pull off an event successfully.

You'll rarely ever need to work overtime as a coordinator but you might expect some overtime during busy periods. Usually, you'll just work a normal 40-hour schedule.

Human resources coordinators are essential in almost every business. They're the reason people get hired in the first place. You know that person that recruited, screened, and interviewed you? Most likely a human resources coordinator.

But a human resources coordinator's resposibilities don't stop there. They also handle employee relations, and they might just take a peek at the compensation and benefits package that a company offers. And, maybe, they'll update that sucker because everyone knows it's been too long since it was last updated, and 4 weeks of maternity leave is just not "in" anymore. That was so 1980.

As you've probably already guessed, human resources coordinators spend the majority (if not all) of their time in the office. Although, there are special occasions that allow them to travel a bit, such as job fairs, college campus visits and sometimes just to meet with an applicant. A day spent as a human resources coordinator is definitely never boring.

If you are a Recruiter, companies and organizations trust you with finding the right staff for their open positions. Recruiters create and maintain an extensive network of industry contacts, association and trade group members, company employees, and social media groups to maximize the pool of potential candidates.

As a recruiter, you will work with a hiring manager to come up with recruiting plans using traditional or innovative sourcing strategies to discover talent locally, nationally, or internationally. You will create and post job descriptions and screen candidates to make sure they have the right qualifications. You will interview and select them and mediate the negotiation process with the employer. Handling administrative tasks and keeping records will be your job as well.

Recruiters should have great people's skills and understand the clients' requirements very thoroughly. Making sure the candidate selected is a good fit saves the employer a surprising amount of money.