HEADHUNTER & HR SPECIALIST | Permanent work from home | AU morning shift

This is a remote position.
HEADHUNTER & HR SPECIALIST
Remote | Philippines | Full-Time
₱40,000 – ₱50,000
About GetMyCourse

GetMyCourse is a growing education and training business focused on helping people access practical skills, training, and career opportunities. We are looking for a **high-calibre Headhunter & HR Specialist** who can build our talent pipeline for niche commercial roles while also owning key people and employee-experience initiatives across the organisation.
This is a recruitment-first role, with approximately 70–80% focused on specialist hiring and 20–30% focused on HR, engagement, and employee support.
THE ROLE

We are looking for a proactive and commercially minded Headhunter & HR Specialist who is highly skilled at identifying, approaching, assessing, and securing high-performing sales talent.
The primary focus will be hiring A-players for niche sales and enterprise roles, particularly candidates who can operate in consultative, B2B, SaaS, enterprise, or high-value sales environments.
Beyond recruitment, you will act as the organisation's HR point person, supporting employee engagement, HR administration, HMO processing, onboarding, employee experience, and other people-related initiatives.
You will work closely with leadership and hiring managers to understand what a true "A-player" looks like and proactively build talent pipelines rather than relying solely on job advertisements.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Niche & Specialized Talent Acquisition — PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY

• Own end-to-end recruitment for specialist, niche, and senior sales positions.

• Identify and attract A-player Sales Representatives, Account Executives, BDMs, Enterprise Sales professionals, and other commercial talent.

• Proactively source passive candidates through LinkedIn, talent databases, referrals, networking, Boolean search, headhunting, and other sourcing channels.

• Build and maintain talent pools for hard-to-fill and recurring sales positions.

• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for candidates with proven experience in:

oB2B Sales
oSaaS / Technology Sales
oEnterprise Sales
oConsultative Sales
oHigh-ticket Sales
oAccount Management
oBusiness Development
oEducation / Training Sales
oOther niche commercial environments

• Conduct initial screening and competency-based interviews

• Assess candidates based on track record, revenue performance, sales capability, communication, cultural alignment, career stability, and potential.

• Validate sales achievements wherever possible through measurable evidence such as revenue generated, quotas achieved, conversion rates, deal sizes, client portfolios, or sales rankings.

• Present shortlisted candidates to hiring managers with clear recruitment recommendations.

• Manage candidate communication and experience throughout the recruitment process.

• Coordinate interviews, assessments, reference checks, offers, and onboarding handovers.

• Maintain accurate candidate records and recruitment activity in the ATS.

• Continuously improve sourcing strategies based on hiring outcomes and market feedback

Recruitment Strategy & Talent Intelligence

• Partner with leadership to understand current and future hiring requirements.

• Translate hiring-manager requirements into clear candidate profiles and sourcing strategies.

• Research talent markets and identify where high-performing candidates are currently working.

• Conduct competitor and talent-market mapping for difficult roles.

• Build a ready-to-hire pipeline instead of starting recruitment from zero whenever a vacancy opens.

• Provide feedback to leadership on salary expectations, candidate availability, market competitiveness, and recruitment challenges.

·Track recruitment metrics including:
oTime to shortlist
oTime to hire
oSource effectiveness
oInterview-to-offer ratio
oOffer acceptance
oQuality of hire
oPipeline health
HR & EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE — SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Act as the organisation's primary HR support person for day-to-day employee experience and people-related administration.
Employee Engagement

• Plan and coordinate employee engagement activities.

• Organise team-building activities, celebrations, recognition initiatives, birthdays, work anniversaries, and other employee experience programs.

• Help maintain a positive, connected, and high-performance culture across remote teams.

• Gather employee feedback and identify opportunities to improve engagement.

• Support internal communications relating to people initiatives and employee activities.

Employee Support & HR Administration

• Serve as a first point of contact for general HR-related questions and employee concerns.

• Support employee onboarding and offboarding processes.

• Maintain employee HR records and documentation.

• Coordinate employment-related documents and HR communications.

• Assist managers with basic people-related processes and employee concerns.

• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism when handling employee information.

HMO Administration

• Coordinate HMO enrolment, updates, additions, deletions, and employee requests.

• Liaise with the HMO provider regarding employee concerns and documentation.

·Maintain accurate HMO records.

• Assist employees with basic HMO-related queries and processing requirements.

**Payroll, payroll calculations, salary processing, and finance-related payroll functions are NOT part of this role. These responsibilities are handled separately by the Payroll/Finance Specialist.**
HR OPERATIONS SUPPORT

• Maintain organised employee files and HR documentation

• Support HR reporting and people-related data tracking.

• Assist in developing and documenting HR processes and policies.

• Coordinate employee surveys, feedback collection, and engagement initiatives.

• Support performance-review and employee-development processes where required.

• Ensure HR activities are completed accurately, confidentially, and on time.

• Assist leadership with ad hoc HR and people projects.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

We are looking for someone who is more than a traditional recruiter.
The ideal candidate is a headhunter who knows how to find people who are not actively looking for jobs and can distinguish an average salesperson from a genuine A-player.
You should be:
·Highly proactive and resourceful.

• Strong in headhunting and passive candidate sourcing.

• Commercially minded and comfortable recruiting sales professionals.

• Excellent at assessing sales performance and potential.

• Confident communicating with experienced and senior candidates.

• Strong in stakeholder management and hiring-manager partnership.

• Highly organised and able to manage multiple vacancies simultaneously.

• Comfortable working independently in a remote environment.

• People-oriented and genuinely interested in employee experience.

• Detail-oriented when handling HR administration and employee records.

• Discreet and trustworthy when handling confidential information.

• Comfortable balancing high-volume recruitment activity with high-touch executive/niche hiring.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

Essential

• 3+ years of recruitment/headhunting experience, preferably within sales, commercial, SaaS, technology, B2B, or professional services recruitment.

• Demonstrated experience sourcing passive candidates.

• Proven ability to recruit difficult-to-fill or niche positions.

• Strong LinkedIn sourcing and Boolean search skills.

• Experience conducting competency-based interviews

• Strong understanding of sales roles and commercial talent.

• Experience using an ATS or recruitment CRM.

• Strong written and verbal English communication.

• Experience handling HR administration and employee engagement activities.

Highly Preferred

• Experience recruiting *A-player sales professionals*.

• Experience hiring Enterprise Sales, Account Executives, BDMs, Sales Development Representatives, or high-ticket sales professionals.

• Experience recruiting for Australian, US, UK, or other international markets is an advantage but not required.

• BPO, agency recruitment, executive search, SaaS, or startup experience.

• Experience with HMO/benefits administration.

• Experience supporting remote or distributed teams.

SUCCESS PROFILE

Your success in this role will be measured primarily by your ability to consistently deliver and close high-quality commercial talent, not simply the number of CVs submitted.
Recruitment Success

• Consistently produces qualified shortlists for niche sales roles.

• Builds strong passive-candidate pipelines.

• Improves time-to-shortlist and time-to-hire.

• Delivers candidates who meet both technical and cultural requirements.

• Demonstrates strong hiring-manager satisfaction.

• Maintains a healthy pipeline of future A-players.

HR Success

• Employees receive timely and professional HR support.

• HMO requests are processed accurately and efficiently.

• Engagement activities are organised consistently.

• HR records remain accurate and up to date.

• Employees experience a responsive and people-focused HR function.

TOOLS & SYSTEMS

• Experience with the following is advantageous:

·LinkedIn Recruiter

• ZOHO or other similar Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

·Recruitment CRMs
·Google Workspace
·Slack / Microsoft Teams
·HRIS platforms
·HMO / benefits portals
·Boolean sourcing tools
·Other AI recruitment and sourcing tools
WORKING ARRANGEMENT

Location: Philippines
Work Setup: Permanent Work From Home
Employment: Full-Time (5-6 weeks nesting period)
Shift: Aligned with GetMyCourse business requirements : Tentative 7AM-3PM
Reporting To: GetMyCourse Leadership / Management
THE BIG PICTURE

This role is ideal for someone who wants to be the talent hunter and people champion of GetMyCourse.
Your primary mission is simple:
Find the A-players we cannot easily find through traditional recruitment.
You will own the hunt for exceptional sales talent while also helping build an organisation where employees feel **supported, engaged, recognised, and connected**.
If you are a recruiter who loves the thrill of finding the needle in the haystack, knows how to sell an opportunity to passive candidates, and also enjoys building a great employee experience, we want to hear from you.

Originally posted on Himalayas