Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Opportunity

As a Practice Recruitment Specialist, you will partner with an assigned portfolio of dental practices to attract, assess, and hire clinical talent across roles such as Dental Hygienists, Dental Assistants, and Practice Administrative professionals. Reporting to the Manager, Practice Recruitment, you will manage the full recruitment lifecycle while delivering a consistent, high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience.

Through strong partnerships with Practice Managers, Regional Managers, and Operations leaders, you will build talent pipelines, lead sourcing strategies, share market insights, and help practices meet hiring goals while maintaining appropriate staffing levels.

This Alberta-based remote role follows company policy and is a 9-month contract starting in January 2027. The successful candidate will be eligible for a completion bonus.

Who You Are

You are a proactive, relationship-driven recruitment professional with strong judgment, ownership, and a candidate-first mindset. You know how to manage high-volume hiring, build trusted partnerships, and turn business priorities into practical recruitment strategies.

You are confident sourcing in competitive markets, engaging passive talent, and using systems, data, and market insights to guide decisions. You communicate clearly, manage competing priorities with urgency, and create a consistent, thoughtful experience for candidates and hiring managers.

In This Role, You Will

Practice Recruitment

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for an assigned portfolio of practices, hiring Dental Hygienists, Dental Assistants, and Practice Administrative professionals.
• Build talent pipelines and execute recruitment strategies that support regional hiring priorities and operational needs.

Candidate Attraction & Sourcing

• Use LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, job boards, social media, networking, and direct sourcing to attract qualified talent.
• Develop creative sourcing and recruitment marketing strategies for competitive markets and difficult-to-fill roles.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with Practice Managers, Regional Managers, and Operations leaders to understand hiring needs, provide recommendations, and share market insights.
• Maintain clear, regular communication on recruitment activity, candidate pipelines, and market conditions.

Recruitment Excellence

• Deliver a consistent, high-quality recruitment process from sourcing through offer acceptance, onboarding, and pre-employment activities.
• Maintain accurate activity in Workday, follow recruitment standards, and identify opportunities to improve process and candidate experience.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field is considered an asset.
• 3+ years of progressive recruitment experience, ideally in healthcare, retail, hospitality, agency recruitment, or another multi-site, high-volume environment is required.
• Strong full-cycle recruitment, sourcing, interviewing, and candidate assessment skills is required.
• Excellent relationship-building, communication, and stakeholder management skills is required.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, use recruitment systems and data, and deliver exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences is required.

Why Dentalcorp?

Dentalcorp is North America’s leading and fastest-growing network of dental practices. Through industry-leading technology, expertise, and scale, we help practices grow while supporting dental professionals to retain their clinical autonomy. Here, you’ll be trusted with meaningful responsibility, supported to grow, and surrounded by people who share ideas and raise the bar together. Our Beyond Brilliant values—Beyond the Status Quo, Beyond Excellence, Brilliant Together, and Brilliant Experiences—guide how we innovate, collaborate, deliver, and put people at the centre.

Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada. At Dentalcorp, we recognize that inclusivity and diversity strengthen our culture and make us better. We are committed to ensuring that the talent we hire is reflective of the diverse communities and patients we serve. To ensure equal opportunity for all candidates, we strongly encourage applicants requiring an accommodation to let their recruiter know during the recruitment/selection process. We appreciate all applicants for taking the time to apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.