Recruitment Coordinator

Job Labs Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan recruitment arm of Sharper Labs Group, a UK-based organization with a dedicated HR and Consultancy division that supports multiple businesses across the UK and internationally. At Job Labs, we connect candidates with verified opportunities across all sectors in Sri Lanka, while helping businesses find reliable, compliant talent to support their growth. From sourcing and screening to placement and ongoing support, we manage the recruitment process end-to-end for our clients, making hiring simple and fast.

About the Role

We are looking for an energetic, commercially minded and highly proactive all-round recruitment professional who can help drive the growth of our recruitment business - from identifying potential clients and generating leads, through to building B2B relationships, understanding vacancies, sourcing candidates and supporting successful placements.

If you are someone who is hungry for success, confident speaking with businesses, comfortable picking up the telephone, resourceful in finding opportunities and determined to turn conversations into commercial relationships, then this is your chance.

What You Will Be Doing

Business Development & Lead Generation:

You will actively help build the Job Labs client portfolio by,

• Researching and identifying potential employers and hiring businesses across Sri Lanka.
• Making proactive outbound and cold calls to business owners, HR professionals, recruiters and hiring managers.
• Generating your own leads rather than relying solely on leads provided by others.
• Using telephone, email, LinkedIn, social media and other appropriate channels to identify business opportunities.
• Introducing Job Labs and explaining our recruitment services confidently and professionally.
• Identifying businesses with current or anticipated recruitment requirements.
• Following up prospects consistently and professionally.
• Turning initial conversations into meetings, vacancies and long-term client relationships.
• Maintaining an active and organized business-development pipeline.

Client Relationship Management:

Winning a client is only the beginning. You will be expected to,

• Build strong B2B relationships with employers and hiring managers.
• Become a trusted point of contact for recruitment requirements.
• Understand each client's business, vacancies, recruitment challenges and expectations.
• Maintain regular communication throughout the recruitment process.
• Respond promptly and professionally to enquiries.
• Follow up after placements and maintain the relationship for future recruitment requirements.
• Identify opportunities for repeat business and additional vacancies.
• Deal confidently with difficult conversations, feedback and changing client requirements.
• Represent Job Labs professionally at all times.

Recruitment & Candidate Management:

This is also a hands-on recruitment role. You will support the complete recruitment process, including,

• Taking and understanding vacancy requirements from clients.
• Preparing clear and professional vacancy information and job advertisements.
• Actively sourcing suitable candidates rather than simply waiting for applications.
• Searching job platforms, LinkedIn, social media and other appropriate candidate sources.
• Reviewing CVs and applications.
• Conducting initial candidate screening.
• Shortlisting candidates against client requirements.
• Coordinating interviews between candidates and employers.
• Maintaining communication with candidates throughout the recruitment process.
• Obtaining interview feedback and following up with both parties.
• Supporting offers, placements and successful onboarding.
• Maintaining an active candidate database and talent pipeline for future vacancies.

Commercial Ownership & Performance:

You will be expected to take ownership of your desk and your results. This includes,

• Working towards agreed business-development, vacancy and placement targets.
• Maintaining appropriate daily outbound activity.
• Developing new client leads and opportunities every week.
• Keeping accurate records of prospects, calls, vacancies, candidates, follow-ups and outcomes.
• Maintaining a healthy pipeline of potential clients and active vacancies.
• Providing regular updates on business development and recruitment activity.
• Following opportunities through rather than allowing leads to become inactive.
• Looking for new and creative ways to generate business.

We are interested in results, initiative and consistency - not simply activity for the sake of activity.

The Person we Are Looking For

Qualifications and previous experience are valuable, but attitude, personality and commercial drive will be extremely important for this appointment.



You are likely to succeed with us if you are,

• Confident, articulate and comfortable speaking with senior business people.
• Naturally outgoing and able to build rapport quickly.
• Comfortable with cold calling and proactive business development.
• Hungry to succeed and motivated by achieving results.
• Commercially minded and able to recognise opportunities.
• Persistent without becoming unprofessional.
• Comfortable working independently and taking responsibility.
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple clients, candidates and vacancies.
• A strong communicator in both spoken and written English.
• Professional enough to represent an internationally focused recruitment business.
• Creative and resourceful when the usual approach is not producing results.
• Someone who brings energy, positivity, personality and sparkle to the team.

Technology & Working Style:

You should be comfortable working with,

• Microsoft Office 365;
• Email and online communication platforms;
• LinkedIn and social media;
• Online job boards and candidate sourcing platforms;
• CRM/recruitment databases or similar systems; and
• Remote working and online meetings.

Previous experience in recruitment, staffing, B2B sales, business development, telesales, account management or client relationship management would be advantageous.

However, we are also prepared to consider an exceptional candidate from another commercial background who demonstrates the right attitude, communication ability and hunger to succeed.

• Fixed monthly salary;
• Attractive performance and sales incentives linked to successful business generation and placements;
• For the right person, this role has the potential to develop beyond Recruitment Coordinator into a senior recruitment, business development or management position.

If you believe recruitment is about more than posting vacancies and collecting CVs and you have the personality, commercial drive and determination to build relationships and make things happen, we would like to hear from you.