About the Role
As a Talent Acquisition Coordinator, you will play a key part in the candidate experience by managing the coordination of interviews for internal recruiters, supporting recruiting administrative tasks, and ensuring smooth communication between candidates and internal stakeholders to ensure a positive experience for candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters. This role supports all activities leading up to an offer in the recruiting process.
Responsibilities
- Schedule interviews between candidates and hiring teams across various departments, ensuring timely coordination and positive candidate experiences.
- Interface with candidates, co-workers, hiring managers, and third-party vendors to schedule and manage candidate interviews.
- Monitor both virtual and on-site interviews, including greeting candidates and communicating with interviewers and recruiters throughout the process.
- Act as a liaison between candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers to manage interview logistics, including virtual and onsite scheduling and technical interview setup.
- Monitor interview & requisition processes in our recruiting ATS system (Greenhouse) & HR system (Workday).
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date interview schedules using internal systems and tools (e.g., Outlook, Applicant Tracking Systems).
- Provide administrative support to the recruiting and talent operations teams, including data entry, calendar management, and reporting.
- Assist candidates with expense reimbursement processes.
- Coordinate travel arrangements for candidates and book with the travel team.
- Generate and audit recruiting and employee activity/status reports; ensure accurate data entry for reporting.
- Support ad hoc projects and initiatives as needed, such as event planning, reporting, and process improvements.
- Support Super Day interview logistics and event coordination, including occasional weekend availability for Saturday events.
- Present new hire welcome presentation sessions to introduce company culture, policies, and processes.
- Assist in the roster coordination of weekly new hire welcome presentation and orientation invites.
- Support candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters in the onboarding process, ensuring an overall positive onboarding experience.
- Collaborate with internal teams on onboarding logistics such as desktop support, compliance, and HR operations.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year's previous administrative experience in a corporate office setting.
- 1+ years of experience in scheduling, coordination, or administrative role—ideally within HR, recruiting, or talent acquisition.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a focus on delivering excellent service.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with scheduling tools (e.g., Microsoft Outlook) and familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) preferred.
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets and basic reporting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential information with integrity.
Skills
- Scheduling
- Coordination
- Administrative Support
- Microsoft Outlook
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Spreadsheets
- Reporting
Location
- Chicago
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1+ years
About the Company
- DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world.
- We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.
- Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets.
- We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.
- We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds.
- The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it.
- DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.
