J. Walter Thompson Bags Gold & Silver at Asia Recruitment Awards

The Asia Recruitment Awards is the only regional awards event in Asia that recognises excellence in recruitment and talent acquisition, and attracts a who’s who of multinational and local companies competing to be recognised across 16 corporate categories, as well as the highest caliber recruitment agencies competing across eight categories. 

The awards entries are peer-reviewed by a panel of senior HR professionals from the region, with entries having to meet the high level of 70 per cent to reach the cut as an award finalist.

The judges were impressed by J. Walter Thompson’s unique high-engagement approach to on-boarding that combines technology and human interaction to ensure the changing needs of new employees are anticipated and met during their first year. 

The on-boarding program also provides new employees with the opportunity to provide feedback regarding their recruitment and on-boarding experiences, to ensure new employees continue to have high levels of engagement.

Judges were also impressed by J. Walter Thompson’s candidate experience strategy, which aims to improve their experience during the recruitment process; this represents a shift away from recent database-reliant recruiting trends, by being highly personalised and high-touch.

“In an era where new possibilities of communications are make possible every day by technology, Talent is everything,” said Tom Doctoroff, CEO of J. Walter Thompson Asia Pacific. “Recruiting people and motivating them to push out the boundaries of what an idea can be is our great challenge. And even greater opportunity. “

Carolyn Moore, J. Walter Thompson Asia Pacific’s regional human resources director, was delighted with the results.

“The J. Walter Thompson Company has been synonymous with high-quality award-winning branding and advertising work for over 150 years, and now we are recognised very much as a leading employer in the APAC region,” she said. 

“It is an honour for us to have our talent acquisition and on-boarding programs recognised at the first ever Asia Recruitment Awards. These awards reinforce the hard work that has been undertaken by the entire regional talent team to transform our talent acquisition and on-boarding programs over the past couple of years – and the results are really paying off!”