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Careers2023-10-28T13:38:10-07:00

Are you…?

  • a positive, persuasive, people person
  • driven and motivated to succeed in whatever you do
  • someone who upholds integrity in yourself and others

Would you be interested in…?

  • working hard and earning a lucrative income while doing good for individual people and the world
  • professional and personal growth
  • rapid income advancement opportunities tied to your performance
  • a casual, fun, hard-working, team-oriented, collaborative, fast-paced environment
  • being a key contributor to a highly productive team

If so, Skyrocket Ventures is looking for you!

About the Company and Industry

Skyrocket Ventures is a leading recruiting firm for high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups.  We aim to bring the best companies and candidates together.

Skyrocket Ventures has been recognized as a Great Place to Work!
https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7024698

We encourage you to check us out on Social Media:
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Recruiting is consistently ranked as one of the top most lucrative professions by Fortune Magazine.  Successful recruiters (aka headhunters) at recruiting firms (aka recruiting agencies, search firms/agencies, etc.) earn well into the 6-figures, with the top recruiters in the profession earning an annual income exceeding $500k.  Agency recruiters are primarily sales professionals, as opposed to corporate or internal recruiters who are often more human resources oriented.  We are all about results, closing deals, and getting as much done in as little time as possible.  Unlike most sales jobs, this is a multi-dimensional sales profession.  No two sales are the same, and the job involves selling companies on you, candidates on you, candidates on companies, and companies on candidates.

In addition to the high financial rewards we enjoy, we also get the deep satisfaction of serving the parties we work with:

  1.  The candidates we place – Often we’ve formed friendships with these candidates, and they are very grateful when we help them in their career advancement.
  2.  The companies we recruit for – We not only help the companies themselves, but are contributing to their ability to build products that often touch and improve the lives of millions of people

Take a look at the job descriptions below.  The first one is a very general, flexible description; the others are similar but have more specialized job duties.  If any of them are a fit for you, please apply!

Open Positions

Recruiter / Account Manager / Business Development / Sales Associate

(Title/Role is flexible depending on what job function(s) are best for you)

No recruiting experience required; training and professional development is provided.

Location:  Westlake Village, CA

Compensation: Salary, Bonuses (very high income potential), Health Benefits

Job Responsibilities (no experience necessary; training provided):

Depending on your role in the company, job responsibilities may include some or all of the following:

  • Working within a collaborative team.
  • New business relationship development.
  • Negotiating fee agreements with companies.
  • Finding and recruiting candidates.
  • Selling candidates on companies / job opportunities.
  • Selling companies on candidates.
  • Guiding candidates and companies through employment interviews.
  • Negotiating compensation packages.
  • Finalizing candidates’ acceptances of employment offers, resulting in successful placements.

Benefits

  • Income directly related to performance.
  • Rapid advancement opportunities.
  • No travel required.
  • Casual, fun work environment, cool people, dynamic culture.
  • Professional and personal growth – including but not limited to:
    • How to be a professional networker and connector.
    • How to be a high performing, top sales producer.
    • How to be a master of communication, persuasion, negotiation, and mediation.
    • How to lead/motivate/influence people.
    • Much more.

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Competitive drive, strong work ethic, tenacity, ambitious “whatever it takes” attitude.
  • Desire for constant self-improvement.
  • Ability and desire to learn quickly.
  • Persuasiveness.
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication.
  • Engaging personality, positive attitude, likability, charm.
  • Computer proficiency (typing, emailing, web browsing).
  • Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high stakes environment.
  • General understanding of business and the corporate world.
  • Multi-tasking, organizational, and time/decision management skills.
  • Sense of humor. Taking your work seriously but not taking yourself too seriously.
  • Ability to be quick on your feet.
  • Ability to work hard, work smart, and work quickly.
  • Thick skin, ability to overcome adversity, rejection, etc.

Bonus skills:

  • Interest and/or skills in any of:  negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution aka dispute resolution, or psychology.
  • Entrepreneurial mentality, resourcefulness, creativity, thinking outside the box.
  • Strong negotiation skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Interest in technology.

To apply, please click here.

 

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Recruiter / Sales Superstar – Talent Recruiter / Talent Relations Specialist

No recruiting experience required; training and professional development is provided.

Location: Westlake Village, CA

Compensation: Salary, Bonuses (very high income potential), Health Benefits

Job Responsibilities (no experience necessary; training provided):

As a Talent Recruiter / Talent Relations Specialist, your primary goal is continually recruit quality candidates for our client companies.  Job responsibilities may include some or all of the following:

  • Working within a collaborative team.
  • Conducting searches to identify candidates of interest to our client companies.
  • Contacting potential candidates and recruiting them (primarily with the phone, secondarily through email).
  • Selling candidates on working with you/us.
  • Interviewing candidates to understand their qualifications, interests, and goals.
  • Selling candidates on the career advancement opportunities with our client companies.
  • Coaching/advising candidates, as needed, whether to help them improve their resume, skills, interviewing, or adjusting their expectations.
  • Finalizing candidates’ acceptances of employment offers, resulting in successful placements.
  • Maintaining ongoing relationships with your candidates, and continually growing your network.

Benefits

  • Income directly related to performance.
  • Rapid advancement opportunities.
  • No travel required.
  • Casual, fun work environment, cool people, dynamic culture.
  • Professional and personal growth – including but not limited to:
    • How to be a professional networker and connector.
    • How to be a high performing, top sales producer.
    • How to be a master of communication, persuasion, negotiation, and mediation.
    • How to lead/motivate/influence people.
    • Much more.

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Competitive drive, strong work ethic, tenacity, ambitious “whatever it takes” attitude.
  • Desire for constant self-improvement.
  • Ability and desire to learn quickly.
  • Persuasiveness.
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication.
  • Engaging personality, positive attitude, likability, charm.
  • Computer proficiency (typing, emailing, web browsing).
  • Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high stakes environment.
  • General understanding of business and the corporate world.
  • Multi-tasking, organizational, and time/decision management skills.
  • Sense of humor. Taking your work seriously but not taking yourself too seriously.
  • Ability to be quick on your feet.
  • Ability to work hard, work smart, and work quickly.
  • Thick skin, ability to overcome adversity, rejection, etc.

Bonus skills:

  • Interest and/or skills in any of:  negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution aka dispute resolution, or psychology.
  • Leadership.
  • Entrepreneurial mentality, resourcefulness, creativity, thinking outside the box.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Interest in technology.

To apply, please click here.

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Account Manager / Account Executive / Client Relations Specialist / Customer Success Advocate

No recruiting experience required; training and professional development is provided.

Location: Westlake Village, CA

Compensation: Salary, Bonuses (very high income potential), Health Benefits

Job Responsibilities (no experience necessary; training provided):

As an Account Manager, you will be the primary point of contact for your client companies/employers.  Your goal is to maximize our production/revenues with your client companies by helping them to hire candidates we have recruited for them.  You will do this by cultivating and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with your clients, understanding their needs, and helping them to achieve the best possible results in their work with us.

Required Job Duties:

  • Working within a collaborative team.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with your clients.
  • Having frequent, long, consultative phone discussions with your clients about their activities and needs.
  • Gathering and understanding detailed information from your clients.
  • Collaboratively formulating and executing strategies, both with clients and with the Skyrocket Team, to accomplish goals.
  • Negotiating/mediating compensation packages between both companies and candidates.
  • Finalizing candidates’ acceptances of employment offers, resulting in successful placements.
  • Continually growing your network via referrals from happy clients.

Possible Additional Duties (if you are able and interested):

  • Prospecting/selling client companies on working with you/us.
  • Researching companies to identify prospective clients.
  • Analyzing candidates’ qualifications and preferences in order to evaluate their fit with our client employers’ open positions.
  • Finding and/or selecting candidates that may be of interest to our client companies.
  • Contacting potential candidates and recruiting them (primarily with the phone, secondarily through email).
  • Conducting phone interviews with candidates.
  • Sending high volumes of recruiting emails to candidates.
  • Selling candidates on the career advancement opportunities with our client companies.
  • Anything else you or we can think of that will be beneficial.

Benefits

  • Income directly related to performance.
  • Rapid advancement opportunities.
  • No travel required.
  • Casual, fun work environment, cool people, dynamic culture.
  • Professional and personal growth – including but not limited to:
    • How to be a professional networker and connector.
    • How to be a high performing, top sales producer.
    • How to be a master of communication, persuasion, negotiation, and mediation.
    • How to lead/motivate/influence people.
    • Much more.

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Competitive drive, strong work ethic, tenacity, ambitious “whatever it takes” attitude.
  • Desire for constant self-improvement.
  • Ability and desire to learn quickly.
  • Persuasiveness.
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication, charm.
  • Engaging personality, positive attitude, likability.
  • Computer proficiency (typing, emailing, web browsing).
  • Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high stakes environment.
  • General understanding of business and the corporate world.
  • Multi-tasking, organizational, and time/decision management skills.
  • Sense of humor. Taking your work seriously but not taking yourself too seriously.
  • Ability to be quick on your feet.
  • Ability to work hard, work smart, and work quickly.
  • Thick skin, ability to overcome adversity, rejection, etc.
  • Critical thinking skills; ability to understand all sides of an issue.
  • Initiative to follow up regularly.
  • Relationship management, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Strategic thinking ability to achieve goals and close deals.

Bonus skills:

  • Interest and/or skills in any of:  negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution aka dispute resolution, or psychology.
  • Leadership.
  • Entrepreneurial mentality, resourcefulness, creativity, thinking outside the box.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Interest in technology.

To apply, please click here.

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Recruiting Analyst / Talent Sourcer / Internet Researcher / Technical Recruiter

Location:  Westlake Village, CA

Schedule: Full-time, flexible; working any time of day or night is ok

Compensation: Salary + potentially significant bonuses + benefits

Job Responsibilities

This job is a fit for someone who thrives on doing heavy amounts of fast-paced computer work, enjoys analyzing information to make evaluations and judgements, and enjoys work that is straightforward and repetitive.

Required Job Duties:

  • Understanding written job requirements from our client employers.
  • Finding and/or selecting candidates that may be of interest to our client companies.
  • Analyzing candidates’ qualifications and preferences in order to evaluate their fit with our client employers’ open positions.
  • Conducting various types of simple, high volume, repetitive online research to collect data.

Possible Additional Duties (if you are able and interested):

  • Conducting phone interviews with candidates.
  • Communicating with client employers.
  • Sending high volumes of recruiting emails to candidates.
  • Researching companies to identify prospective clients.
  • Anything else you or we can think of that will be beneficial.

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • A natural tendency to work at a moderate to fast pace with a sense of urgency.
  • Enjoyment of reading/analyzing/evaluating information on a computer screen. (You would be doing that all day, every day).
  • Excellent verbal and written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to type properly and very quickly — at least 60 WPM, preferably much higher.
  • General computer proficiency: emailing, web browsing, ability to learn new programs.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strong reading comprehension skills.
  • Strong memory / information retention.
  • Ability to mentally process complex information quickly and accurately.
  • Solid critical thinking skills.
  • Solid written communication skills.
  • Positive, optimistic, can-do attitude.
  • Dedication and focus, strong work ethic.
  • Ability to pass a background and reference check.

Nice to have:

  • Recruiting experience.
  • Technical recruiting experience.
  • Knowledge and/or interest in technology.
  • Sales ability.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

To apply, please click here.

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Office Assistant / Executive Assistant / Administrative Assistant

Location:  Westlake Village, CA

Compensation: Salary, Bonuses, Health Benefits

Job responsibilities (Not all experience necessary; training provided):

Please read this section carefully.  Compared to some other Assistant jobs you may see, this job is more fast-paced with an emphasis on making many phone calls, plus a variety of errands and random tasks mixed in.  We are a small company, so there is less of an emphasis and need for much time spent on organization, paperwork, etc.  The more frequent the task, the more the ability to do that task is valued in a candidate.  For example, it is required that the right candidate can do tasks in the “Always” section, but it is only “nice to have” and not a requirement that the candidate can do tasks in the “Rare” section.  The approximate frequency for each type of task is listed below:

Always:

  • Pleasantly and persistently getting ahold of clients/customers – you will be expected to make at least 50-100 phone calls per day
  • Answering, screening, routing all phone calls

Often:

  • Filing, typing, scanning, copying, printing, organizing files, etc.
  • Running errands (must have a car)
  • Company shopping
  • Assisting CEO and personnel with any other duties required

Sometimes:

  • Conducting research and data entry of information on clients/customers
  • Developing relationships with new clients/customers (email, phone)

On rare occasions:

  • Conducting basic training to employees
  • Light cleaning (for example, clean out refrigerator every week)
  • Interfacing with and negotiating with vendors when needed
  • Doing basic accounting/book keeping with Quickbooks Software
  • Generating invoices, reports, memos, financial statements, etc.
  • Getting help from technical support when something breaks (printer, internet, etc.)
  • Maintaining company personnel files
  • Taking the minutes/notes at meetings periodically (on average once per month)
  • Event planning (company outings, parties, etc.)
  • Arranging occasional trips for employees
  • Collecting money from clients who are past due

Benefits

  • Salary, Health Benefits
  • Casual, fun work environment, cool people, dynamic culture
  • Professional and personal growth

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Positive, optimistic, can-do attitude
  • Friendly, pleasant, kind, helpful personality
  • Excellent verbal and written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to be in contact off hours for anything urgent
  • A valid driver’s license and car for running errands
  • Honesty, trustworthiness, dependability
  • Ability to maintain sensitive data in a confidential manner
  • Dedication and focus, strong work ethic
  • Ability to work with or without direction
  • Computer proficiency (typing, emailing, web browsing, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel)
  • Multi-tasking, organizational, and time/decision management skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Focus on not only keeping up, but moving forward
  • Ability to travel (on rare occasions)
  • Ability to pass a background and reference check

Bonus Skills:

  • Basic accounting / book keeping skills, proficiency with Quickbooks Software
  • Ability to emulate the style, philosophy, and persona of the company
  • Human Resources knowledge/skills
  • Ability to help facilitate and be a catalyst for the rapid growth of the company
  • Ability to find something productive to do in the absence of direction
  • Initiative to conceive and implement new ideas to improve the success of the company

To apply, please click here.

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Sales Support Associate / Sales Assistant

No experience required; training and professional development is provided.

Location:  Westlake Village, CA

Compensation:  Salary, Bonuses, Health Benefits

Job Responsibilities (no experience necessary; training provided):

  • Pleasantly and persistently getting ahold of clients/customers – you will be expected to make as many phone calls as possible.
  • Selling each client/customer on talking to someone on our Sales Team who would like to speak with them in more depth.
  • Connecting each client/customer to someone on our Sales Team, either by simply transferring the call, or setting an appointment for your colleague to call them at a later time.

Your success will be determined by:

  • How many people you connect with our Sales Team
  • How smoothly you transition those connections
  • How excited/interested you can get people in talking with our Sales Team.

If it makes mutual sense, we are open to this Sales Support position being a stepping stone for you to later pursue a full Sales position at this company.  It is also great if this Sales Support position itself would be what you want.

Benefits

  • Income directly related to performance
  • No travel required
  • Work environment
    • Nice office
    • Casual
    • Fun
    • Great people
    • Dynamic culture

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • Competitive drive, strong work ethic, tenacity, ambitious “whatever it takes” attitude
  • Desire for constant self-improvement
  • Persuasiveness
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication
  • Engaging personality, positive attitude, likability, charm
  • Computer proficiency (typing, emailing, web browsing)
  • Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Sense of humor.  Taking your work seriously but not taking yourself too seriously.
  • Ability to be quick on your feet
  • Ability to work hard, work smart, and work quickly
  • Thick skin, ability to overcome adversity, rejection, etc.

To apply, please click here.

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Social Media and Marketing Coordinator

No experience required; training and professional development is provided.

Location:  Westlake Village, CA

Schedule:  Flexible (part-time or full-time is ok, working any time of day or night is ok)

Compensation:  Salary, Performance Bonuses, Health Benefits.

No work experience is required (see below for what is required); training and professional development is provided.

We encourage you to check us out on Social Media:
Instagram       LinkedIn          Pinterest         Medium           Tumblr

 

We have a casual, fun (yet hard-working), team-oriented, fast-paced environment.  We are looking for someone to lead our social media and marketing.  This opportunity is unique in that it will offer you the flexibility to craft your job duties based on your skills, interests, and goals for your professional growth.

Job Responsibilities:

You would be working at a fast pace, with constant focus on being productive and efficient.  You won’t have much pressure to meet deadlines or work long hours or be micromanaged, but we do need someone who gets things done quickly rather than slowly.  You will always be busy and the amount of work will never end.

You would be the primary person in the company doing this work, and would report directly to the CEO.  You would have a lot of impact and responsibility.

Below, we will divide the job duties into things that definitely will be done, probably will be done, and possibly will be done.  Duties in the “definitely” section are things that you certainly would expect to be doing.  The duties in the “probably” and “possibly” sections are things that would be less crucial to the job, but may be possible depending on your interests and skills.  There is a great variety of things you could potentially learn…

Definitely:
* Daily management of our social media properties such as LinkedIn, Instagram, and LinkedIn
* Generating and sharing content on a variety of our social media sites.  Creating/writing social media posts
* Increasing our brand loyalty and engagement with our target audience
* Occasionally researching and utilizing emerging social media and marketing trends, strategies, websites, tools, etc.

Probably:
* Keeping up with industry news and curating articles from various industry websites, and selecting which ones to share on our website and/or social media
* Collecting reviews and testimonials from our clients and featuring them on our social media sites

Possibly:
* Contacting potential clients to drive business
* Creating content for our online marketing materials
* Writing articles and/or blog posts to increase our engagement with our target audience and demonstrate our company’s expertise in the industry
* Occasional graphic design for our website, advertisements, promotional materials, etc.
* Recruiting
* Research and data entry
* SEO
* Strategizing and executing Google, Facebook or Instagram Ad campaigns
* Press releases, public relations
* Creating video content (advertisements, informational presentations, etc.)

Qualifications

Requirements:

* Positive, optimistic, can-do attitude
* Friendly, pleasant, kind, helpful personality
* Honesty, trustworthiness, dependability
* Dedication and focus, strong work ethic
* Ability to work at a fast pace with a sense of urgency
* Ability to work with or without direction
* Strong computer proficiency (browsing, typing, etc.)
* Strong written and verbal communication
* Attention to detail
* Either equivalent experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as marketing, business, public relations, psychology, communication, advertising, multimedia, journalism, etc.
* Versatility and adaptability.  A “whatever it takes” attitude to do any job duties needed to help the company.  We need a generalist rather than a specialist who only wants a narrow range of job duties.
* Awareness and appreciation for the bottom line and how your work ultimately impacts the company’s success
* Ability and interest to constantly learn and improve your skills
* Ability to pass a background and reference check

Nice to have:

(we don’t require experience with any of these things, but if you are interested in expanding your skills in any of these areas, you could do that here)

* Resourcefulness and creativity to think outside the box
* Experience with digital marketing or advertising
* Experience managing a company’s business profile on social media websites such as Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter
* Graphic design experience using Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.)
* Photography experience
* Public relations experience
* Experience writing articles
* Knowledge of SEO
* Knowledge of social media management tools such as Sprout Social, Hootsuite, etc.
* A great sense of humor
* Ability to conceive and execute new job duties that will be beneficial to the company

To apply, please click here.

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