We are seeking a driven Career Consultant who is passionate about partnering individuals in their job search journey, working in a team to improve their career health and employability. The Career Consultant will be expected to understand hiring needs of employers, discover vacancies that are suitable for our jobseekers and profile them to the employers for placement.

Responsibilities

Employer Engagement and Relationship Management

• Keep abreast of labour market trends and employment landscape to provide useful insights and analysis to career coaches and jobseekers.
• Scan employment landscape including tapping onto professional networks to identify vacancies that are suitable for jobseekers registered with Careers Connect.
• Engage and establish relationship with employers and hiring managers to understand their hiring needs behind the identified vacancies and acquire them for Careers Connect.

Advocate Jobseekers to Employers

• Work with career coaches to identify jobseekers who are ready to be profiled to employers and hiring managers including enhancing their resumes to improve alignment with hiring needs.
• Pitch the identified jobseeker to employers and hiring managers to secure interviews.
• Work with career coaches to prepare shortlisted jobseekers to prepare for the interviews.
• Follow up with employers and hiring managers on the outcome of interviews and address concerns to improve chances of securing an offer.
• Seek feedback from employers and hiring managers on both successful and unsuccessful interviews and share feedback with career coach and jobseeker for developmental purposes.
• Support events and activities to drive awareness of job matching services among jobseekers and employers.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of working experience in recruitment, talent acquisition or business development.
• Comprehensive and active business network and proven track record of securing job vacancies and placements in one or more industry domains.
• Self-directed, resourceful, enterprising and persuasive.
• Possess strong business acumen, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment towards helping Singaporeans on their career journey, raising their employability level and achieve job placement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in service excellence or customer relationship management (CRM) will be welcomed.
• The ability to converse in Mother Tongues will be advantageous.

All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.