About the Role
12-Month Regional Contract | APAC Exposure | Early Careers & Talent Programmes
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic talent team and contribute to the delivery of large-scale graduate and emerging talent programmes across the APAC region. The role offers extensive stakeholder engagement, regional project exposure, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on future workforce development initiatives.
Who should apply:
- Talent Acquisition, Campus Recruitment, or HR professionals who enjoy building talent pipelines, engaging with educational institutions, and delivering impactful graduate and internship programmes.
- Project-oriented individuals who thrive in coordinating multiple stakeholders, managing regional initiatives, and driving end-to-end programme execution across diverse markets.
- People-focused professionals who are passionate about developing future talent, creating exceptional candidate experiences, and contributing to workforce and organisational growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of early career talent programmes across the APAC region, including recruitment, onboarding, programme delivery, and offboarding activities.
- Oversee relationships with external talent suppliers and programme partners, ensuring effective workforce planning, service delivery, governance, and risk management.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders to execute early career talent initiatives, ensuring compliance with local regulations, hiring processes, and data management requirements.
- Develop and maintain partnerships with Institutes of Higher Learning (ITEs, polytechnics, colleges, and universities) to strengthen employer branding and talent pipelines.
- Represent the organisation at career fairs, campus engagement events, student visits, and other employer branding activities.
- Identify and establish new partnerships with educational institutions across APAC to support future talent pipeline development.
- Support the implementation of regional talent attraction strategies, including scholarship programmes, diversity initiatives, talent pipelines, and employer branding partnerships.
- Manage and monitor government grants, funding schemes, and incentive programmes related to graduate, intern, and early career hiring initiatives.
- Coordinate onboarding programmes, induction activities, and engagement initiatives to ensure a positive candidate and employee experience.
- Oversee the delivery of learning, development, and mandatory training programmes for graduates, interns, and early career hires.
- Support employee transitions and programme completion activities, including graduate and intern offboarding processes.
- Continuously review programme effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, and implement enhancements to optimise the overall participant experience.
- Manage graduate and internship placements, programme escalations, and day-to-day operational matters in collaboration with HR and business stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, organisational policies, and governance requirements across multiple APAC markets.
Requirements
- Min. Degree in HR or Business Management
- Proven experience in early careers recruitment, graduate programmes, talent development, or workforce planning.
- Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of an organisation.
- Demonstrated success in delivering HR, talent acquisition, learning, or workforce-related projects.
- Good understanding of employment legislation, HR policies, and compliance requirements across multiple markets.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and matrix-working skills, coupled with a passion for talent development and creating positive candidate experiences.
Qualified applicants, please send a copy of your resume in MS Word to:
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or call Melanie at 6736 3280 for further enquiries
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Consultant: Melanie Zheng Zhiyuan
Designation: Principal Consultant/Division Manager
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