Talent Acquisition Associate - Contract

22 Hours ago • 2-4 Years

About the job

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Critical Mass seeks a Talent Acquisition Associate to focus on tech recruitment. You'll create and execute hiring strategies, partnering with internal teams to attract top talent. Strong technical recruiting experience in a fast-paced digital environment is essential, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Critical Mass is hiring a contract Talent Acquisition Associate to focus on our technology recruitment.  In this role, you will help create and execute hiring strategies for experienced talent.   In a challenging hiring market, you will partner with internal teams to ideate fresh ways to attract talent and support our growing needs. While the Talent Acquisition Team is spread between various cities in North America, the United Kingdom, and LATAM, you are someone who makes connections easily and comfortable working across geographies. 

The Talent Acquisition Associate will perform full-cycle recruitment and provide a world-class candidate experience while working collaboratively with the Talent Acquisition team and business leaders.  

Most of all, you are someone who likes to have fun alongside an amazing team!


 You will: 

  • Partner with hiring managers to identify staffing needs and develop job descriptions that attract high-quality candidates in the tech field.
  • Utilize various sourcing techniques, including job boards, social media, and networking events, to identify potential candidates.
  • Conduct thorough candidate screenings and interviews, assessing both technical skills and cultural fit.
  • Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring a positive candidate experience and timely communication.
  • Maintain and update the applicant tracking system (ATS) to ensure accurate and up-to-date records of candidate progress.
  • Work with the Talent Acquisition team to assist in developing and implementing recruitment strategies that attract diverse talent.
  • Collaborate with hiring managers to coordinate interviews and facilitate feedback.

You have:

  • Proven experience and success in technical recruiting in a fast-paced digital-focused organization 
  • Strong understanding of technical roles and the skills required for various positions.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with candidates and hiring teams.
  • Proficient in using applicant tracking systems and recruitment tools - knowledge of Greenhouse would be advantageous.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible!  Our new hires & employees are the future of our organisation, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office 4 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning

Improve collaboration and team relationships.

Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM.  We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

  

About The Company

Critical Mass is a team of 1,800 inspired folks based in 12 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients.


We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.


We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

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