About the role
Manage the end-to-end recruitment process to support the organisation's manpower requirements, from workforce planning and applicant sourcing through screening, hiring coordination, pre-employment processing, onboarding, and recruitment reporting. Partner with department heads, hiring managers, applicants, and recruitment partners to fill vacancies with qualified candidates within required timelines while maintaining fair, objective, confidential, and compliant recruitment practices.
Key responsibilities
- Handle recruitment for vacant and newly created positions, coordinating manpower requirements, job qualifications, approved requisitions, hiring priorities, job descriptions, and salary ranges.
- Develop recruitment strategies and explore sourcing channels, including job portals, social media, referrals, walk-in applicants, recruitment networks, and job advertisements.
- Maintain an updated recruitment tracker and applicant database for current and future vacancies, including technical, administrative, managerial, and project-based roles.
- Review applications, conduct initial interviews, and assess work experience, competencies, attitude, salary expectations, and overall suitability.
- Verify employment history, educational background, and other relevant qualifications.
- Endorse qualified applicants to department heads or hiring managers and coordinate panel and final interview schedules, feedback, and hiring decisions.
- Keep applicants informed about interview schedules, requirements, job expectations, hiring decisions, and confirmed start dates.
- Coordinate salary offers and employment terms subject to management approval, conduct job offers, and discuss employment requirements with successful candidates.
- Report declined offers, failure to report for work, and requested changes to agreed starting dates.
- Facilitate pre-employment requirements, medical examinations, background checks, employment documentation, contracts, and other hiring documents in coordination with HR.
- Conduct or facilitate employee orientation and onboarding, and coordinate reporting dates, work assignments, deployment, and endorsement to assigned departments.
- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly recruitment accomplishment reports covering vacant positions, applications, interviews, endorsements, confirmed hires, and time to fill.
- Provide recruitment progress updates, identify hiring challenges and unsuccessful recruitment causes, and recommend process improvements to minimise hiring delays.
- Maintain professional relationships with applicants, hiring managers, and recruitment partners while protecting applicant information and recruitment records.
- Ensure recruitment activities comply with company policies and applicable labour laws and support fair, objective, and consistent applicant assessment.
- Perform other HR-related duties as assigned by the HR Manager.
What we're looking for
- Experience managing end-to-end recruitment and manpower planning processes.
- Strong sourcing, applicant screening, interviewing, assessment, and hiring coordination skills.
- Ability to manage multiple vacancies, prioritise urgent requirements, and meet recruitment timelines.
- Clear communication and coordination skills for working with applicants, hiring managers, department heads, and recruitment partners.
- Strong organisational and reporting skills, including maintaining recruitment trackers, applicant databases, and recruitment accomplishment reports.
- Working knowledge of pre-employment processing, onboarding, employment documentation, confidentiality, and recruitment compliance.
- Sound judgement and a fair, objective, and consistent approach to applicant assessment.