Job Description

Hello from Maker Lab! Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to deliver bespoke solutions at speed and at scale. Our APAC and EMEA based cross-functional teams support client projects with strategy, ideation and execution across social media, data analytics, events, paid media, content and CRM. Freelance Talent Acquisition Specialist As a Freelance Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll play a supporting role in developing, managing and overseeing Maker Lab’s hiring processes across APAC. You’re a self-driven individual who is able to navigate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. You're a self-starter who is able to identify talent; build a strong talent pipeline and support organisational success as the business continues to develop in the region. Passion for recruitment, talent engagement and experience coupled with a few years of experience recruiting across, Marketing, Social, Events, Creative, Content and similar are paramount for this role. Role:

• Take full ownership with limited supervision of the end to end hiring processes and talent experiences.
• Design, plan and execute selection processes for hiring across the region.
• Identify bottlenecks in the recruiting flows and execute short and long term solutions.
• Build talent pipelines of interactive marketers, creatives, events specialists, content strategists, social media experts, creative technologists and others who build a bridge between creative, content and technology.
• Manage day-to-day candidate sourcing activities through key recruitment marketing tools (e.g. Linkedin, Boolean search) and methods (phone interviewing, video interviewing) to find and secure talents qualified for current and upcoming roles.
• Manage interview arrangements for talents, including but not limited to scheduling interviews.
• Improve recruiting KPIs; create and present related reports.
• Writing job descriptions to attract talents and clearly depict roles and responsibilities while posting these advertisements on market specific and relevant job portals
• Create and develop a strong network of potential talents in the market and for future business expansions.
• Help onboard employees as brand ambassadors as part of the formation of a talent network, internal and external.

• At least 1-2+ years of experience as a Recruitment Consultant / Recruiter in-house at a marketing / advertising / digital agency or within a recruitment consultancy or prior experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist
• Experience recruiting for the region or globally is a highly desirable
• Proven network of marketing and creative talent in APAC.
• Fully dedicated to ensuring a positive talent experience through all stages of recruitment
• Strong knowledge of hiring practices and a decent understanding of HR related regulations across the region.
• Excellent interviewing skills with the ability to ask competency based questions and shortlisting candidates for second round interviews
• A sense of ownership and pride in your own performance and its impact on the company’s success.
• Positive mindset with impeccable influencing and consulting skills.
• Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Critical thinker with problem-solving skills, requiring little supervision.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communications and presentations skills and, ideally, fluent in another Asian language to support with the projects spanning across APAC.