HR Jobs in Singapore: Who's Hiring Right Now (Oct 2026)

You want an HR job in Singapore and you want to know who is actually posting, not who claims to be hiring. Here is the picture from the JobRise live jobs feed on 14 October 2026. There are 28 open HR jobs in Singapore, and 12 of them went up in the last 30 days. Five landed in the last week alone.

One number matters more than the rest: every single one of these 28 listings is full-time. There are no part-time, contract-labelled, or freelance HR roles in this slice. Fixed term contract appears in some titles, but the job type on those listings is still full-time.

Who is hiring#

Fuku dominates the count with 15 open listings, more than half the slice. Its titles include "HR Executive Recruitment", so it is hiring recruiters to do recruiting. Read that carefully: Fuku may be a recruiter or staffing firm placing HR people into other companies, so the role you land may sit inside a different employer.

Stripe has 3 listings, all fixed term contract by title: "SDC Business Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)", "Technical Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)", and "University Recruiting Manager". Stripe is building out sourcing capacity across technical, university, and shared-delivery channels.

Delivery Hero has 2 listings. Then a group of employers each has one open role:

• LOTTE Travel Retail Singapore: "Training and Development HR Executive"
• Public Service Division (PSD): "Policy HR Analyst (Lead/Senior) (Benefits)"
• Rentokil Initial: "Human Resources (HR) Executive"
• Pinterest: "Sr. Lead HRBP - APAC Region"
• Datadog: 1 open listing
• Anthropic: 1 open listing
• Okta: 1 open listing

What the mix tells you#

Big tech is present and specific. Stripe, Pinterest, Datadog, Anthropic, and Okta are all in the slice, and their titles skew toward recruiting and senior HRBP work. If you want a tech company HR role right now, recruiter and business partner are the doors that are open.

Startups and scale-ups are less visible here. Delivery Hero is the main name, and its presence is small. Agencies and staffing firms punch above their weight: Fuku alone holds 15 of the 28 listings, which distorts the headline count.

The public sector shows up once, through Public Service Division (PSD), with a policy and benefits analyst role at lead or senior level. That is a specialist post, not a generalist one.

Now the hard part. Zero of the 28 listings carry an entry-level title. No intern, graduate, junior, or trainee roles appear in this slice. If you are early career, the current market is asking for experience you do not have yet, and you will need to widen your search or build the experience first.

No listing in this slice shows a salary. Treat any number you see elsewhere as a guess, and check the official source before you plan around it.

For wider context, the JobRise Hiring Report: Singapore shows 760 open listings across all categories in the country, with 386 posted in the last 30 days. HR is a thin slice of that total.

How to apply this week#

Apply direct wherever you can. If the listing is on a company careers page, use that page rather than a third-party form. Recruiters like Fuku are fine to apply through, but also check whether the end employer posts the same role separately.

Mirror the listing's own words. If the ad says "Technical Recruiter", your resume should contain "Technical Recruiter", not "Talent Acquisition Specialist". If it says "HRBP", keep "HRBP" in your summary line. Screening tools and busy humans both scan for the phrase they wrote.

A worked example. Take the LOTTE Travel Retail Singapore role, "Training and Development HR Executive". A weak resume bullet:

• Ran training programmes for staff across the company.

Same fact, rewritten to mirror the listing:

• Planned and ran training and development programmes for 200+ retail staff, tracked completion, and reported results to HR leadership each quarter.

The second version uses "training and development" from the title, adds scale, and shows you closed the loop.

For the Stripe "Technical Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)" role, a summary line that matches:

• Technical Recruiter with 4 years of sourcing software engineers in Singapore, comfortable with fixed term contract scope and high-volume pipelines.

Run your finished resume through our free ATS resume checker before you send it. It catches the formatting and keyword gaps that get applications filtered out before a person reads them.

A 7-step plan#

1. List the 5 employers you most want from the snapshot above. Rank them by role fit, not by brand name.
2. For each, find the role on the company's own careers site and note the exact job title as written.
3. Rewrite your resume headline and top three bullets using the words from each specific listing. Do this per application, not once.
4. Check your LinkedIn headline against the same wording. Recruiters search there first.
5. Apply to all 5 within the same week. The feed shows 5 new listings in the last 7 days, so timing matters.
6. Send a short note to a recruiter or hiring contact after applying. Two lines, no fluff, reference the exact role title.
7. Track everything in a spreadsheet: company, title, date applied, contact, next step. Review it every Friday.

FAQ#

How current is this data?

It is a snapshot of the JobRise live jobs feed taken on 14 October 2026, counting open listings in the HR slice for Singapore. Listings change daily, so treat the counts as a dated picture rather than a live total.

Should I apply through Fuku or go direct?

Apply through Fuku if the listing is theirs, since they control the process for those 15 roles. In parallel, check whether the end employer advertises the same job on its own careers page, and prefer the direct route when both exist.

Are any of these roles open to entry-level candidates?

None of the 28 listings carry an intern, graduate, junior, or trainee title in this snapshot. You can still apply if your experience matches the responsibilities, but the titles suggest employers want people who can contribute immediately.

Why do the Stripe roles say fixed term contract?

Two Stripe listings, "SDC Business Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)" and "Technical Recruiter (Fixed Term Contract)", name the contract length in the title. The job type on all 28 listings in this slice is full-time, so clarify duration, renewal likelihood, and notice period with the recruiter before you resign anything.

Do these HR roles list salary ranges?

No listing in this slice shows a salary. Where you see numbers quoted elsewhere, treat them as typical reported ranges that vary by seniority and firm, and verify against the official job posting or the employer directly before making decisions.