Talent Acquisition Associate - Contract

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Chicago, IL
Internship
Agency
The Role

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.

  

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

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If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

The Company
Chicago, IL
680 Employees
Year Founded: 1995

What We Do

Critical Mass (www.criticalmass.com) is a digital marketing agency that creates extraordinary experiences for the world's leading brands. Our capabilities include strategy, digital marketing, site design, user experience design, social, mobile, media, marketing science, research and custom communities.

Clients include AT&T, adidas, Nissan, Citi, Clorox, HP, Moen, Infiniti and more.

Services - Our services range from strategy and research through experience design, social and emerging media. We specialize in creating cumulative customer experiences across the breadth of digital channels.

Strategy and Marketing Science - From strategic frameworks to site analysis, best practice review and competitive audits, we help clients prioritize their online investments based on competitive, business and user needs. Whether doing usability and user research or mapping a site strategy to customer segments, we have the experience to help clients effectively deploy digital channels to drive business results. Our Marketing Science practice helps our clients evaluate their total efficiency of marketing activities. We also have a division called Curious that develops custom online communities for our clients to mine qualitative information for customer insights on an ongoing basis.

Experience Design - Strategy leads to experience design, which considers a client's brand and digital opportunities to engage users. We offer a range of design capabilities from dynamic sites to personalized experiences, mobile and rich media solutions, social media programs and marketing campaigns.

Technology - Our technical team has expertise in front-end user experience development, database and technical architectures. Capabilities include e-Commerce and Configurators, Portals and Personalization, Content and Digital Asset Management, Application Development, Rich Media Development and mobile/tablet development. Our team has experience with a full spectrum of platforms and languages, adapting a technology-agnostic approach to find the best tech solution for each project.

Marketing and Media - Our media team helps clients make sense of the myriad of digital touchpoints available to them - channels ranging from email to search to social to paid media and site monetization. Our proprietary methodology aligns business objectives and consumer insights to relevant marketing channels, and evaluates success across the breadth of digital initiatives-ultimately connecting brands with customers on their terms. Our services range from mobile strategy and implementation, video content syndication and aggregation, email and digital campaign management to display and behavioral planning.

The Hangar Interactive - A subsidiary of Critical Mass, The Hangar Interactive is a nearshore digital production agency, established to deliver excellent quality work at cost-effective rates for Critical Mass and other Omnicom partners. Services range from digital art direction through production design, web and applications development, rich media design and development, project management, quality assurance, and digital advertising execution.

Difference - In business for 17 years, our goal from the start has been to carefully cultivate a select list of clients who share our values. Our culture is steeped in entrepreneurial spirit, design heritage and technology. Our brand tenets are strong and have never changed. We always put the customer first. We measure and optimize everything we do. And we have always tried to work harder and be better in our quest to create extraordinary experiences.

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