Recruitment Officer

V.Group; Manila; On-site; PHP 480,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

V.Group in Manila is seeking an experienced Recruitment Officer to manage end-to-end sourcing, screening, and candidate coordination for local and offshore roles. You will maintain strong relationships with officers and ratings, build a robust talent pool, and drive offers through to joining while ensuring compliance with regulations.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and proven direct sourcing and networking experience, with seagoing crewing background considered a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Direct sourcing and networking experience essential.
• In-house recruitment experience preferred.
• Seagoing crewing experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Source candidates actively and passively for recruitment requests.
• Maintain contact with officers and ratings.
• Expand talent pool via networking, advertising and events.
• Ensure recruitment records are accurate and up-to-date.
• Coordinate screening, interviews and verifications.
• Discuss offers with shortlisted candidates through joined status.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on recruitment matters.
• Record market intelligence on seagoing manpower.
• Adhere to local laws and company recruitment policies.

Skills

Sourcing

Networking

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Independent worker

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

• Performs active and passive sourcing of candidates for Recruitment Requests assigned by the local recruitment leadership or respective Global Recruitment Manager - Offshore / Leisure inside an internal recruitment database as well as by utilizing approved channels, tools, platforms, social media, job-boards.
• Maintains contact with Officers and Ratings either left company or pure market ones.
• Expands recruitment database (talent pool) with CVs of interest to V. on a permanent basis through networking, advertising and active sourcing.
• Participates in various local recruitment events aimed at the attraction of candidates, including crew events and school events.
• Ensures all records in recruitment systems and databases are correct and up-to-date, notes in candidates’ profiles are accurate and reflect the verified information about the candidate, including but not limited to availability date, expected wage, attributes (skills and competencies).
• Discusses offers with shortlisted candidates.
• Arranges for recruitment screening, tests, interviews, documents and experience verification, background checks, profile updates as required according to workflow.
• Submits compliant and timely proposals of seafarers to Planners and CMMs and reviews candidate’s status until Joined. In Leisure: submits compliant and timely proposals of seafarers to Planners and Clients and follows through the process until the offer letter is finalized.
• Attends one-to-one and team meetings held by the local recruitment team leadership.
• Deputizes for Senior Recruitment Officer.
• Performs efficiently within the framework of defined KPIs, PIs and productivity ratios.
• Collaborates with recruitment colleagues from other locations, colleagues from other business functions (e.g. Planners, CMMs, CCs, assessors) and third-party agencies (Leisure only) on various operational matters.
• Escalates critical and urgent cases to Recruitment Manager or respective Global Recruitment Manager in Offshore and Leisure.
• Captures and records market intelligence for the local and international seagoing manpower supply marketplace.
• Undertakes all hiring activities observing local employment legislation, international conventions and regulations, V.Group ethics and values, Policies, Processes and Recruitment Strategy.
• Performs other reasonable recruitment related duties assigned by the line manager.

Key performance indicators (as specified in the Annual objective setting):

1. Efficient and timely response to a Recruitment Request.
2. Achieving and where possible exceeding KPIs and other targets.
3. Overall positive feedback from stakeholders.

• Possesses a Bachelor's degree
• Previous experience of in-house recruitment
• Significant direct sourcing and networking experience
• Experience of assessing and selecting the best possible talent
• Work with a strong sense of urgency; with the ability to switch priorities quickly as required
• Excellent Interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong Organisational Skills
• Ability to work alone
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Packages (Word, Excel, Power Point)

• Seagoing experience
• Three years of experience in crewing industry as Recruitment Officer
• Strong work ethics
• Adaptability to change
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to problem solve