The Recruit FAQ

The Recruit is an internship opportunity at Maverick, a strategic communication consultancy based in Jakarta. The program is intended for final year students and fresh graduates who are eager to be the next communications professional. Candidates will undergo three sets of exciting and thought-provoking stages that will be beneficial in building a career—starting from building a LinkedIn profile to developing simple communications strategy and demonstrating problem-solving skills in front of veteran professionals at the Maverick office.

The Recruit provides a valuable learning curve as you will be given a chance to develop your communications skills and thinking process. Furthermore, if you become ‘The Recruit’, you will have the opportunity to meet prominent people from various industries and get direct work experience with clients.

Once you’ve become ‘The Recruit’, you will have the opportunity to meet prominent people from various industries and get direct work experience with a client.

Should you display an outstanding performance throughout your internship, you stand a chance to be offered  a full-time job at Maverick.

The Recruit is conducted in an unorthodox manner where selected candidates will earn an internship at Maverick, one of the most respected strategic communications consultancies in Indonesia. Candidates can grow their skills and receive a set of training/coaching sessions that will benefit them in their future career, through each selection stage. Furthermore, the winner of the Recruit can also get a chance to have an internship with our company’s partner

Indonesian
Fresh graduates, both undergraduate and graduate program
Final year students (final semester, currently completing their thesis)
Aged 19 – 25

Of course not! We would love to meet creative young individuals who are passionate about communications and wants to be in the communications industry, regardless of their educational background. The background of our consultants range from international relations, philosophy, literature, medical science, and even applied mathematics! These people have demonstrated impressive qualities throughout the course of the selection process.

Yes, they can. However, they need to consider their living arrangement during the internship, should they get accepted.

The nature of our industry requires us to continuously come up with fresh and creative ideas. We’d like to consider these challenges more as an exercise where candidates begin to regularly nurture their creativity and develop their thought process to becoming a professional communication consultant. We also provide the chance for the intern to learn about communications industry in both consultancy and clients’ side.

First and foremost, you need to be passionate about communications and have an innate curiosity in learning new things. You also need to have good strategic thinking ability, coupled with creativity and attitude.

Over the past few years we’ve witnessed young individuals who despite their excellent academic records and skills, lack in terms of attitude. This is a people’s business. As much as we love intelligent and smart people, we want to work with those who know how to carry themselves with a proportionate degree of professionalism and humility.

Yes, provided the candidate demonstrates an outstanding performance throughout the internship program.

The Recruit is a paid internship. We view a job well done needs to be compensated fairly.

The internship will approximately last from 12 to 13 weeks. The internship is similar to a full-time job. The intern will report to work from 08.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Mondays to Fridays.

The intern will be assigned to different accounts. By accounts, we mean a group of consultants handling the affairs of a particular client. They will also be involved in Maverick’s internal initiatives, ranging from MavGood, Pecha Kucha Jakarta as well as Catalyst, exposing them to various stakeholders including journalists, communities, and NGOs.

The intern will learn everything that an entry-level staff does when they join a consultancy such as Maverick. It ranges from coordinating events to learning how to develop media documents, and engaging with different stakeholder, including the media and communities.  They will be involved in meetings with clients too!

Every new member in an account will receive a briefing session and be assigned to a reporting manager. During their internship period, the reporting manager will oversee the intern to ensure that they get the most out of their internship. Meanwhile, the briefing sessions can be treated as mentoring sessions where the intern  can ask as many questions as possible. We’d love to see the intern exercises their inquisitiveness and freedom to express their thinking

Maverick will issue certificate of completion for candidates together with a recommendation letter to those who demonstrated outstanding working performance.

Since The Recruit requires intern to report to work full time, taking on other projects is not recommended. We believe it is best for candidates to focus on their learning experience while still in the program.

It is possible. It all depends on the capacity and performance that the candidates display throughout the selection process particularly during the final recruitment process.

We normally refer to their capacity. There are occasions where we refer our outstanding interns to our partners or clients who are looking for new people and they are quite happy with the reference.

We would like to consider candidates (particularly the intern) as ambassador to the program. With proper training, they could to represent and introduce the program to our targeted audience.

The information will be available on our pages on https://maverick.co.id/about/the-recruit/ and Instagram @mavgram. In the meantime, you can read the internship journey from our 2019’s winners here https://maverick.co.id/the-recruit/.

Each year, The Recruit always tries to bring different challenges and experiences to its participants. However, it is most likely the requirements for the First Round remain the same. Until then, you have enough time to complete and update your profile. To prepare yourself for the upcoming The Recruit, you may also want to take a sneak peek at the presentations of the finalists from previous years here https://maverick.co.id/about/the-recruit/.

Our associates and consultants, referred to as MavChicks and MavBros, are actively involved in online workshops and seminars, in collaboration with many organizations, including rencanamu.id, lingkaran.co, and glints. Follow Maverick’s social media @mavgram and @mavtweets for more sharing sessions from MavChicks and MavBros.

The Recruit is an internship opportunity at Maverick, a strategic communication consultancy based in Jakarta. The program is intended for final year students and fresh graduates who are eager to be the next communications professional. Candidates will undergo three sets of exciting and thought-provoking stages that will be beneficial in building a career—starting from building a LinkedIn profile to developing simple communications strategy and demonstrating problem-solving skills in front of veteran professionals at the Maverick office.

The Recruit provides valuable learning curve as you will be given a chance to develop your communications skills and thinking process. Furthermore, if you become ‘The Recruit’, you will have the opportunity to meet prominent people from various industries and working directly in clients’ side.

At the end of the internship, should you display outstanding performance throughout your internship, you will stand a chance to win a full-time job as an Account Coordinator at Maverick.

The Recruit is conducted in an unorthodox manner whereby selected candidates will earn an internship at Maverick, one of the most respected communication consultancies in Indonesia. Candidates will have to follow three recruitment processes where each process grow their skills. In addition to that, candidates will also receive a set of training/coaching that will benefit them for their future career.

Indonesian
Fresh graduates, both undergraduate and graduate program
Final year students (final semester, currently completing their thesis)
Age 20 – 27

Of course not! We would love to meet creative young individuals who are passionate about communications and wants to be in the communications industry, regardless of their educational background. You can see the background of our consultants which range from international relations, philosophy, literature, medical science, and communications. These people have demonstrated impressive qualities throughout the course of the selection process.

Yes, they can. However, they need to consider their living arrangement during the internship, should they get accepted.

The nature of our industry requires us to continuously come up with fresh and creative ideas. We’d like to consider these challenges more as an exercise where candidates begin to regularly nurture their creativity and develop their thought process to becoming a professional communication consultant. We also provide the chance for the intern to learn about communications industry in both consultancy and clients’ side.

First and foremost, you need to be passionate about communications and have an innate curiosity in learning new things. You also need to have good strategic thinking ability, coupled with creativity and attitude.

Over the past few years we’ve witnessed young individuals who despite their excellent academic records and skills, lack in terms of attitude. This is a people’s business. As much as we love intelligent and smart people, we want to work with those who know how to carry themselves with a proportionate degree of professionalism and humility.

Yes, provided the candidate demonstrate outstanding performance throughout the internship program.

The Recruit is a paid internship. We view a job well done needs to be compensated fairly.

The internship will approximately last from 12 to 13 weeks. The internship is similar to a full-time job. The intern will report to work from 08.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Mondays to Fridays.

The intern will be assigned to different accounts. By accounts we mean the clients we are handling, lead by a group of consultants. They will also be involved in Maverick’s internal initiatives, ranging from Mavoice, Pecha Kucha Jakarta and Catalyst, exposing them to various stakeholders from journalist to NGOs.

The intern will learn everything that an entry-level staff does when they join a consultancy such as Maverick. It ranges from coordinating events to learning how to develop media documents, and engaging with different stakeholder, including the media and communities.

Every new member in an account will receive a briefing session. The intern is encouraged to use the opportunity as mentoring sessions where they can ask as many questions as possible. We’d love to see the intern exercise their inquisitiveness and freedom to express their thinking.

The possibility is always there. We’ve done so with the intern from The Recruit since 2012.

Maverick will issue certificate of completion for candidates together with a recommendation letter to those who demonstrated outstanding working performance.

Since The Recruit requires intern to report to work full time, taking on other projects is not recommended. We believe it is best for candidates to focus on their learning experience while still in the program.

It is possible. It all depends on the capacity and performance that the candidates display throughout the selection process particularly during the final recruitment process.

We normally refer to their capacity. There are occasions where we refer our outstanding interns to our partners or clients who are looking for new people and they are quite happy with the reference.

We would like to consider candidates (particularly the intern) as ambassador to the program. With proper training, they could to represent and introduce the program to our targeted audience.