Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab’s cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.

Talent Sourcer (6 Months Contract)

As a Talent Sourcer, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting Maker Lab’s hiring processes across APAC. Being part of the Talent Acquisition team, you’re a self-driven and ambitious 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 drive organisational success as the business continues to develop in the region. 

Passion for recruitment, talent engagement and experiences 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 talent sourcing processes and talent experiences. 
• Craft and implement an effective sourcing strategy to find and engage key talents in various markets.
• 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, Workable) to find and secure talents qualified for current and upcoming roles. 
• Manage interview arrangements for talents, including but not limited to scheduling interviews.
• Create and develop a strong network of potential talents in the market and for future business expansions.
• Provide market insights by creating and presenting related reports to the team to help improve the hiring process & recruiting KPIs.
• Drafting job descriptions to help attract talents and clearly depict roles and responsibilities while posting these advertisements on market-specific and relevant job portals.
• Screen resumes to determine fit based on the requirements of the positions.

You:

• At least 4 years of experience as a Candidate Sourcer/Researcher at a marketing / advertising / digital agency or within a recruitment consultancy.
• Proven network of marketing and creative talents in APAC. 
• Experience sourcing for the region or globally is highly desirable.
• Fully dedicated to ensuring a positive talent experience through the sourcing to the interviewing process.
• 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 builder with the ability to network and drive referrals both internally and within the market
• Critical thinker with problem-solving skills, requiring little supervision.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills and - ideally - fluent in another Asian language to cover projects spanning across APAC.

Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email.  If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.

Maker Lab is a marketing consultancy that builds decentralised in-house micro-agencies for some of the world's biggest culture-shaping brands. We power innovation. We challenge ideology. We help brands create impact. Through our unique organisation framework and talent acquisition & management methodology, we enable businesses to scale at speed while creating value for spend.

We deliver technology-led solutions with efficiency at the core — be it a remote dedicated social media team of 3 or an embedded multidisciplinary micro-agency of 50.