Lead Recruiter (Early Careers)

At Castlery, we're making it about creating a space to thrive in and be their best self. The People team is supporting a team obsessively passionate about our mission and create a place where you will want to show up every single morning and thrive together.

As a Lead Recruiter based in Singapore, you will play a crucial role in managing our Early Careers attraction program for both young talents and management associates. You'll be responsible for organizing hiring events, reducing our reliance on external recruitment partners, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. Working independently, you'll collaborate with remote teams and build relationships with local talent to meet our growing business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the full recruitment cycle for early career, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer negotiation.
• Collaborate closely with hiring managers and the Talent Acquisition Lead to understand hiring needs and deliver high-quality candidates in a timely manner.
• Build strong relationships with universities, career centers, and external partners to create a consistent pipeline of fresh graduate and entry-level talent.
• Drive creative sourcing strategies to identify high-potential candidates with 0 to 2 years of experience.
• Oversee and execute high-volume hiring for various positions, ensuring an efficient and candidate-friendly process.
• Maintain and update candidate tracking systems to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Support the implementation of employer branding initiatives to attract top early-career talent.
• Provide a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, from initial contact to onboarding.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of recruitment experience, with a focus on early career and ideally volume hiring
• Holds established relationships and network with universities, career centers, and external partners
• Ability to assess and engage early-career talent for long-term potential, ideally through automation and assessment tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management abilities, with the capacity to manage multiple roles at once.
• A proactive, results-oriented mindset and a passion for talent acquisition.

What we promise

Our first promise - the ride of a lifetime

You'll be joining a company in its most exciting phase; we've proven our product market fit, and with the growing online penetration of furniture, we're now focused on hypergrowth. You'll have a front-row seat in witnessing the growth of our customer-base and organisation at a global-level.

Our second promise – a place to thrive

We're building a company that has people as one of the company's core pillars for success. It's our mandate to help every employee perform to their highest potential so that they can do the very best work of their lives here, at Castlery.

We're committed to our employees' growth, and continuously strive to ensure our employees are set up for success through their journey, starting with an excellent onboarding experience, and carrying over into emphasis on personal and professional development.

Castlery strives to maintain a psychologically safe, transparent, and flexible work environment to enable our people can perform at their best level and believes in partnering our employees to raise that level as they grow with us.