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Recruiter at Walmart in Bentonville, AR
Entry LevelOn-siteFull-timeBentonville, AR$70k–$130k/yr
Job Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Role Summary
The Recruiter is an execution-focused recruiting professional responsible for delivering against defined hiring plans with accuracy, consistency, and process discipline. This role partners with hiring managers to align on role requirements, maintains pipeline hygiene, and ensures structured interview processes are followed. Operates within a defined set of requisitions and hiring plans with impact measured at the individual role or requisition level.
Essential Functions
An individual must be able to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Business Partnership & Influence: Builds credibility with hiring managers through responsiveness, follow-through, and execution reliability on every open requisition. Participates in structured intake meetings to align on role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, interview process steps, and timeline expectations. Proactively communicates progress updates and flags pipeline risks before they become delays. Uses ATS reporting dashboards to surface hiring metrics in stakeholder conversations. Escalates issues related to sourcing availability, interview bandwidth, or compensation misalignment to senior partners promptly and with clear context.
Hiring Strategy & Workforce Planning: Executes against defined hiring plans and tracks requisition progress against headcount targets and timeline commitments. Flags pipeline gaps early when candidate volume or quality falls below the level needed to meet hiring milestones. Understands the business team’s workforce priorities at a role level, including urgency, skill criticality, and interview capacity. Uses system-generated pipeline reports to monitor requisition health and report status accurately. Applies basic workforce planning context to prioritize effort across an assigned requisition portfolio.
Sourcing Strategy & Market Intelligence: Executes targeted sourcing campaigns using standard channels including job boards, ATS/CRM tools, LinkedIn Recruiter, and referral activation. Maintains active pipeline hygiene by keeping candidate records current, following up consistently, and re-engaging passive candidates at appropriate intervals. Understands the competitive talent landscape at a surface level for roles within scope. Uses CRM/ATS sourcing tools to build structured candidate lists with accurate tagging and segmentation. Identifies when standard sourcing channels are underperforming and escalates for strategic sourcing support.
Skills-Based Interviewing & Evaluation: Ensures structured interview processes are followed consistently across all assigned requisitions, including panel alignment, rubric use, and feedback submission timelines. Coaches interviewers on behavioral question techniques, rubric application, and calibration expectations prior to interview panels. Reviews interviewer feedback for completeness, specificity, and alignment to the role’s defined evaluation criteria. Uses structured evaluation tools to document and organize candidate assessments accurately. Ensures interview feedback is captured in the ATS within required timelines and is sufficient for calibration discussions.
Candidate Experience & Engagement: Maintains consistent, timely communication with candidates at every stage of the hiring process to ensure transparency and a positive experience. Manages scheduling with precision, including panel coordination, logistics, and timely confirmations. Delivers proactive status updates and manages candidate expectations throughout assessment and decision stages. Uses CRM automation tools to trigger timely, personalized candidate communications at key process milestones. Resolves scheduling issues or process delays quickly and communicates proactively when timelines shift.
Offer Negotiation & Closing: Executes the offer process with accuracy, speed, and a positive candidate experience from verbal offer through written documentation and acceptance. Handles standard compensation discussions within defined band guardrails, clearly communicating total rewards components including base, bonus, and benefits. Identifies early indicators of offer risk — hesitation, counteroffers, competing offers — and escalates to senior partners with context and a recommended response. Uses compensation benchmarking tools to verify offer accuracy and alignment to market and internal equity standards. Follows through on post-offer logistics including background check status, start date confirmation, and pre-boarding communication.
Operational Excellence, Technology & Metrics: Maintains ATS data accuracy and reporting hygiene across all assigned requisitions, including disposition codes, stage updates, and candidate record completeness. Tracks core recruiting KPIs — time-to-fill, time-to-offer, pipeline conversion rates — and uses these to self-assess performance and identify areas for improvement. Follows established process standards and compliance requirements consistently, including structured interview documentation and offer approval workflows. Maintains data integrity across ATS, CRM, and reporting systems to support accurate team-level dashboards. Builds a working understanding of system reporting mechanics including field logic, workflow stages, and dashboard filters.
Key Skills
The following key skills are required to perform one or more essential functions of this position.
Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Planning, Behavioral Interviewing, Stakeholder Management, Pipeline Management
Leadership Expectations
An individual must be proficient in each of the competencies listed below to successfully perform the responsibilities of this position.
Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Respect the Individual: Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us.
Act with Integrity: Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Act with Integrity: Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer/member first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Strive for Excellence: Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $70,000.00 - $130,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or related area.Options 2: 2 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.