Talent Acquisition Specialist
Company: Bond Enterprise Language Services LLC
Location: Columbus, Ohio, with remote work available
Job Type: Independent contractor
Schedule: Flexible, part-time
Expected Hours: Approximately 10 to 20 hours per week, depending on recruitment activity
Pay: Commission-based. The contractor will earn an agreed upon percentage of eligible collected revenue generated by each successful recruit during the recruit’s first six months of paid assignments.
Estimated Earnings: Earnings depend on recruitment results and revenue generated.
Company Overview
Bond Enterprise Language Services LLC, also known as BELS, provides interpretation, translation, localization, transcription, and language-access services.
BELS works with healthcare providers, schools, courts, government agencies, law firms, businesses, and community organizations. We are seeking a recruiter who can help us expand our network of qualified interpreters and translators.
Job Summary
The Interpreter and Translator Recruiter will identify, contact, screen, and help onboard qualified language professionals.
The primary focus will be recruiting interpreters for in-person assignments in Ohio. The recruiter may also recruit remote interpreters and professional translators throughout the United States and abroad.
This is a performance-based independent-contractor position. Compensation is earned when a candidate recruited by the contractor successfully completes onboarding, performs paid assignments, and generates collected revenue for BELS.
Duties
The recruiter will:
- Identify qualified interpreters and translators.
- Contact prospective candidates by phone, email, social media, and professional networks.
- Recruit candidates through community organizations, universities, interpreter associations, cultural groups, job boards, and referrals.
- Conduct initial telephone or video interviews.
- Review résumés, certifications, training records, references, and relevant work experience.
- Confirm each candidate’s language, location, availability, qualifications, and assignment preferences.
- Help qualified candidates complete the BELS application and onboarding process.
- Maintain accurate records of candidate sources, contact activity, interview results, and onboarding status.
- Develop recruitment strategies for high-demand and difficult-to-fill languages.
- Build relationships with local cultural, immigrant, refugee, Deaf, and multilingual communities.
- Coordinate with BELS leadership regarding current and upcoming recruitment needs.
- Follow confidentiality, data-security, and professional conduct requirements.
Qualifications
Applicants should have:
- Experience in recruiting, staffing, sales, community outreach, talent sourcing, or contractor management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to communicate professionally with people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
- Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills.
- The ability to manage multiple candidates at different stages of recruitment.
- Experience using email, spreadsheets, video-meeting platforms, social media, and online job boards.
- Reliable internet access.
- The ability to work independently and meet agreed recruitment goals.
Experience in the language-services industry is preferred but not required.
Preferred Experience
Preference may be given to applicants with experience in:
- Recruiting interpreters, translators, linguists, bilingual professionals, or independent contractors.
- Working with immigrant, refugee, Deaf, hard-of-hearing, or multilingual communities.
- Healthcare, education, legal, government, or community interpreting.
- Community outreach in Central Ohio.
- Applicant tracking, customer relationship management, or contractor management systems.
- Speaking a language other than English.
Priority Recruitment Needs
The recruiter may recruit professionals in all languages following recruitment priorities that may change based on client and contract needs.
Compensation
This position does not provide an hourly wage or salary.
The recruiter will earn an agreed upon percentage of eligible collected revenue generated by each successful recruit during the recruit’s first six months of paid assignments.
The commission percentage will be assigned in writing before recruitment begins. The percentage may depend on the language, location, qualifications, urgency, and difficulty of the recruitment need.
A candidate will be considered a successful recruit when:
- The recruiter first identifies and introduces the candidate to BELS.
- The candidate was not already in BELS’s contractor or applicant records.
- The candidate completes all required screening and onboarding.
- BELS approves the candidate to provide services.
- The candidate completes at least one paid assignment.
- BELS receives payment from the client for the candidate’s services.
Commission is calculated only on eligible revenue collected by BELS.
Eligible revenue does not include taxes, mileage, parking, travel expenses, reimbursements, cancellation fees, refunds, disputed invoices, chargebacks, or other pass-through costs.
Commission payments will be calculated monthly or quarterly after BELS receives the related client payment.
No commission is paid for candidates who do not complete onboarding, fail screening, remain inactive, or never complete a paid assignment.
This compensation arrangement does not provide ownership, equity, partnership rights, or an interest in BELS’s overall revenue or profits.
Work Schedule
This is a flexible, part-time contractor position.
The recruiter is expected to devote approximately 10 to 20 hours per week to sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, following up with applicants, and maintaining recruitment records.
Most work may be completed remotely. Occasional attendance at local networking, university, cultural, or community events may be helpful.
There is no guaranteed minimum number of hours, commissions, placements, or annual earnings.
Benefits
Because this is an independent-contractor position, traditional employee benefits are not provided.
The position offers:
- A flexible work schedule.
- Remote work opportunities.
- Performance-based earning potential.
- The opportunity to build relationships with multilingual professionals and community organizations.
- The opportunity to support language access in healthcare, education, legal, government, business, and community settings.
Application Requirements
Applicants should submit:
- A current résumé.
- A brief description of their recruiting, staffing, sales, or community-outreach experience.
- A brief explanation of how they would find qualified in-person interpreters in Central Ohio.
- Information about any experience working with multilingual communities or language professionals.
- Their general weekly availability.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Bond Enterprise Language Services LLC provides equal opportunities to qualified applicants and contractors. BELS does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Pay: $30,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Columbus, OH 43215
