Alissa Sargeant has been appointed as the new Head of Talent Acquisition (APAC) at leading media monitoring and social analytics platforms Meltwater.
Sargeant is a highly experienced HR professional with two decades of experience in senior regional roles at technology firms across Asia Pacific and Japan. Before joining Meltwater, she was Talent Acquisition Leader and HR Business Partner for global IT firm NCR Corporation, where she brought a strong people focus to recruitment across all business divisions.
"I’m delighted to be joining Meltwater at such an exciting time for the company and the wider media industry. Their investment in technology has created a need for highly skilled people at a time when the global talent market is increasingly competitive. I look forward to sourcing the very best candidates from Australia and throughout the region, and continuing to expand and grow Meltwater’s strong employer brand," says Alissa Sargeant, Head of Talent Acquisition (APAC), Meltwater
"Culture is critical at Meltwater, not only for recruiting the most talented people, but also to ensure that existing staff feel valued. Our commitment to our employees and customers is summed up by the acronym MER, which stands for "fun", "number one" and respect" in Norwegian. Alissa is a true specialist in talent acquisition who shares our philosophy and understands our DNA as a company," says David Hickey, Executive Director APAC at Meltwater.
"Alissa’s strong focus on people makes her ideal for a role which includes recruiting high potential candidates, as well as ensuring our hiring process stays updated with the best practices in the market. At a very dynamic time of growth for Meltwater, we look forward to her creative approach in sourcing talent for the many new roles we have opening up."
In keeping with Meltwater’s focus on technology to drive decision making, Sargeant and her Talent Acquisition team will analyse key recruitment metrics to identify areas of improvement and provide data-driven recommendations to improve outcomes.
Meltwater recently unveiled its industry-first unified Paid, Earned & Owned dashboard, following its acquisition of DeepReason.ai.
Meltwater’s technology currently captures content from more than 270,000 global news sources, social media platforms, forums, blogs, print publications, broadcasts, and podcasts. Over 800 million pieces of new content are processed every day, with more news sources continually added.
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Meltwater helps companies make better, more informed decisions based on insights from the outside. We believe that business strategy will be increasingly shaped by insights from online data. Organisations will look outside, beyond their internal reporting systems to a world of data that is constantly growing and changing. Our customers use these insights to make timely decisions based on real-time analysis.
More than 2000 companies use the Meltwater media intelligence platform across ANZ to stay on top of billions of social media conversations and track hundreds of thousands of local and international online news publications. Globally, we work with over 34,000 organisations, with 55 local offices across six continents.
Meltwater also operates the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a non-profit organisation devoted to nurturing future generations of entrepreneurs.