Skilled Trades Recruiter - Inside Sales & Professional

Position Title: Skilled Trades Recruiter - Inside Sales & Professional (Confidential Client)

Location: Bethlehem, PA | On-site

Employment Type: Permanent

Compensation

• Salary: Base salary up to $65K/year


• Commission: Plus commission and performance incentives

Benefits

Cell phone reimbursement and laptop provided.

Company Overview (Confidential)

Our Client is a staffing and recruiting firm that helps businesses solve critical hiring challenges while helping skilled trades professionals find opportunities where they can grow.

Position Summary

Are you someone who thrives on building relationships, exceeding goals, and helping people succeed? Do you enjoy consultative conversations, developing pipelines, and creating win-win solutions for customers and candidates?

This role blends sales, relationship management, and talent consulting and is ideal for someone with a customer-first mindset, who enjoys measurable success and career growth. Our Client is looking for a motivated, people-focused professional who wants to build a career, not just fill jobs.

This role will focus on selling and recruiting roles like: Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Mechanic, Welder, Machinist, CNC Operator, Electronics Technician, Warehouse Lead, Industrial Electrician, Service Technician, Quality Technician, Mechanic, Machine Repair Technician.

This is an in-office, performance-based role where effort, relationships, and consistency directly impact your results and income. All local travel in the Lehigh Valley area, no overnight travel; all calls are local within a 25-30 mile radius of the office.

What success looks like in this role: consistently achieving outbound activity and client engagement goals; building and maintaining a healthy pipeline of active clients and candidates; making successful placements and growing repeat business; earning trust as a trusted advisor to both clients and candidates.

Primary Functions

• Prospect and develop new client partnerships through outbound calls, meetings, and networking


• Learn client businesses and hiring needs to deliver consultative solutions


• Build long-term relationships that lead to repeat hiring and referrals


• Track activity and opportunities in CRM and manage your sales pipeline


• Source, interview, and build relationships with professional-level candidates


• Match talent to client needs using skill assessment and career coaching


• Maintain ongoing communication with candidates throughout the hiring process


• Build a strong talent pipeline for recurring client needs


• Coordinate interviews, offers, and onboarding with clients and candidates


• Follow up after placements to ensure satisfaction and long-term success


• Identify opportunities to add value and expand partnerships

Must-Haves

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills


• Customer or sales-oriented mindset (retail, inside sales, account management, recruiting, or business development all translate well)


• Comfortable with outbound calls, follow-ups, and consultative conversations


• Organized, goal-driven, and able to manage multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Staffing, recruiting, or HR experience


• B2B sales or account management experience


• CRM or applicant tracking system experience


• Bachelor’s degree (helpful, not required)