Early Career Specialist

Ready to start a career where your work actually matters? Join us as an Early Career – Talent Acquisition Specialist and help shape the next generation of diverse talent at Dow. If you love connecting people with opportunities and making hiring more inclusive and human, this role is for you.

We are seeking an Early Career – Talent Acquisition Specialist with a passion for attracting, sourcing, and recruiting talent for apprenticeships, internships and new college graduate positions with focus on Germany. This position is based in Terneuzen, The Netherlands. In this role, you will create a best‑in‑class experience for candidates and hiring teams by delivering expert support across the full recruitment cycle — with a strong focus on early career and apprenticeship hiring.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-cycle recruiting process (from job posting to offer) for early career roles, understanding hiring needs and supporting teams to hire with confidence.
• Deliver an unforgettable candidate experience by engaging, influencing, and guiding candidates throughout the process.
• Partner with managers to craft inclusive, clear, and compelling job postings.
• Present diverse shortlists of pre‑screened and interviewed candidates aligned with Dow’s global inclusive hiring principles.
• Collaborate with the Talent Marketing team to promote our employer brand and open roles online and offline.
• Connect with potential candidates through social media, networking, and creative sourcing strategies, while maintaining accurate talent databases.
• Jump in on TA initiatives, projects, and ad‑hoc tasks whenever needed — you’re part of a team that supports each other.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong communication skills in English. Fluency in German (minimum B1) in writing and speaking.

Your Skills

• Interpersonal Relationships: You enjoy connecting with others and building trust quickly.
• Learning Agility: You’re adaptable, curious, and ready to grow in a fast‑changing environment.
• Communication: You express yourself clearly — whether through writing, visuals, or conversation.
• Organizing, Planning & Prioritizing: You stay on top of details and know how to juggle multiple tasks.
• Teamwork: You bring a collaborative, open mindset and enjoy working with others.
• Managing Ambiguity: When things shift, you pivot smoothly and stay solution‑focused.
• Analytical Thinking: You know how to explore information, spot patterns, and draw logical conclusions.

Additional note

There is no visa or relocation support available for this role.

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing. Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
  • Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
  • Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).  
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.  
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
• Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
  • Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
  • Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
  • Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)

Join our team, we can make a difference together. You can apply via our website here: https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/careers/jobs/position.R2064087.html?source=Zeeland.netEMEAI