Role Overview
The Recruitment Specialist manages hiring from approved vacancy through candidate selection and onboarding, helping teams secure the people they need across a range of functions and job levels. The role combines hands-on sourcing and screening with interview coordination, hiring-manager support, and recruitment reporting to keep multiple vacancies moving efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage recruitment activities from approved manpower requests through selection, offer coordination, and onboarding support.
- Find candidates using professional networks, job boards, social media, referrals, talent databases, agencies, and other suitable channels.
- Review applications against role criteria, shortlist candidates, and conduct initial interviews or assessments.
- Coordinate interview schedules with candidates and hiring managers, and keep candidates informed throughout the process.
- Recruit across general worker, technical, specialist, and professional roles, including targeted searches for hard-to-fill vacancies.
- Maintain candidate pipelines and recruitment records, and coordinate reference or background checks where required.
- Prepare hiring documentation, support offer processes, and follow up with successful candidates ahead of their start date.
- Monitor vacancy progress and report on interviews, offers, hires, sourcing channels, and time to fill; assist with recruitment campaigns, career fairs, campus hiring, and mass recruitment.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- At least 2–4 years of recruitment experience, preferably in manufacturing, industrial, logistics, or another fast-paced business environment.
- Practical experience sourcing and screening candidates at different levels, managing several vacancies at once, and using LinkedIn, job portals, databases, and social media.
- Sound knowledge of recruitment processes and interview techniques; experience working with hiring managers and recruitment agencies is an advantage.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word; an HR professional certification is beneficial.
- Clear communication and interpersonal skills, strong organization and time management, and the ability to meet hiring deadlines under pressure.
- High standards of integrity and discretion when handling confidential candidate and recruitment information.
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