● The inaugural FastJobs Employer Awards crowned Uniqlo, Daiso and Crocs as the top three most popular employers in Singapore for 2022.

● Uniqlo clinched the most popular employer award, garnering more than 25,000 applications and 4,000 shares by job seekers across its hiring positions

SINGAPORE, Feb 21, 2023 - FastJobs, Singapore's leading non-executive job platform, crowns the 2022 winners of its inaugural Employer Awards. The awards celebrate the best performing employers in their recruitment efforts among non-executive roles and winners were selected based on popularity of their job postings that are tracked by FastJobs.

Uniqlo Singapore claimed the crown of most popular employer among non-executive job seekers, achieving over 25,000 applications and 4,000 shares by job seekers for jobs posted in 2022. Second and third place went to Daiso Singapore and Crocs Singapore respectively.

With more than 280,000 job postings on the FastJobs platform in 2022, hiring in the non-executive segment can be highly competitive. FastJobs saw an increase of almost 2.5 times in job postings across the Sales/Retail/Marketing segment from 2021 to 2022. This mirrors the trend of rising demand for manpower as retail surges ahead during post-pandemic recovery.

Uniqlo has been an active employer on the FastJobs platform, as evidenced by their presence among the Top 10 winners in the category of Most Responsive Employers in addition to their win in the Most Popular Employer category. Their popularity among jobseekers on FastJobs is testament to their responsiveness, strong brand equity, and a carefully planned recruitment marketing strategy.

Mr. Julian Tan, Founder & CEO of FastCo, said, ''The rising demand for manpower creates a competitive market for employers as they vie for the attention of non-executive jobseekers. FastJobs wants to take this opportunity to celebrate employers who have won the hearts of non-executive jobseekers and highlight their success for others to follow. We know that many businesses may face a manpower crunch as everyone rushes to match increased customer demand and we want to be there to help businesses meet their hiring needs."

Finalists of the most popular employer award were shortlisted if they have offered more than 10 different job positions throughout 2022. FastJobs then ranks the finalists according to the volume of average job applications received per job posting and number of shares by jobseekers.

In total there are 5 award categories for the FastJobs Employer Awards:

Most Popular Employers

Most Popular New Employers

This category is for employers that are new to the FastJobs platform and have just joined in 2022 with the same criteria as the most popular employer award.

Most Popular Recruitment Agency

Recruitment agencies on the FastJobs platform that have offered more than 20 different job positions are shortlisted and finalists are ranked according to the volume of average job applications received per job posting and number of shares by jobseekers.

Most Responsive Employer

Finalists are ranked by a combined score based on their ranking in total applications received, and the percentage of applications that were updated.

Best Employer Branding

Employers who ran campaigns on FastJobs in 2022 were shortlisted and finalists were scored on their job ad performance, their frequency of messaging, and the attractiveness of their campaign creatives.

Below is the list of award winners for each category:

Most popular employer award

- 1st: Uniqlo Singapore Pte Ltd

- 2nd: Daiso Singapore Pte Ltd

- 3rd: Crocs Singapore Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Ikano Pte Ltd (Ikea Jurong)

- Certificate of Recognition: R H S Lim Management Services

- Certificate of Recognition: Miniso Sg Pte. Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: H & M Hennes & Mauritz Pte. Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Worldwide Hotels Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Hanbaobao Pte. Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Cotton On Singapore Pte Ltd

Most popular new employer award

- 1st: Decathlon Singapore Pte Ltd

- 2nd: Shopee Singapore

- 3rd: Smrt Corporation Ltd

Most popular Recruitment Agency Award

- 1st: Recruit Express Pte Ltd

- 2nd: Adecco

- 3rd: Cornerstone Global Partners

Most responsive employer

- 1st: Hanbaobao Pte Ltd 

- 2nd: Amazon Singapore 

- 3rd place: Chye Thiam Maintenance Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Tian Ma Group Holdings Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Rexy Management Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: Meidi

- Certificate of Recognition: Decathlon Singapore Pte Ltd 

- Certificate of Recognition: Uniqlo Singapore Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: R E & S Enterprises Pte Ltd

- Certificate of Recognition: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Singapore Pte Ltd 

Best employer Branding Award

- 1st: Amazon Singapore

- 2nd: Certis Group

- 3rd: Fairprice Group

- Certificate of Recognition: Marks & Spencers

- Certificate of Recognition: Mexican Food Corp Pte Ltd