OUR
RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN
HONG KONG
Our
candidates typically are
experienced, Western-trained Local
and Expatriate Senior Managers and
Middle-Managers who are able to run
Hong Kong or Asia-Pacific business
units or corporate departments.
Positions
might be as Sole Contributors or
Managers supervising staff.
ART
recruits senior leaders across:
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C‑suite:
CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO
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General
Management:
Country Manager, Managing
Director, President
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Commercial
Leadership: VP
Sales, Sales Director,
Business Development
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Finance
Management: CFO,
VP Finance, Controller,
Planning & Analysis,
M&A
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Operations
& Manufacturing:
VP Operations, Plant
Manager, Engineering
Director
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Supply
Chain & Procurement:
Logistics Directors,
S&OP Leaders
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Technology:
CTO, VP Engineering, R&D
Director, Facilities
Director, Technical Director
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Information
Technology: CIO,
CISO, VP IT, Director Data
Center
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Corporate
Functions: CHRO,
HR Director, HR Manager,
Legal & Compliance
Leaders
Our
cross‑border search capabilities
allow companies to access talent
across the entire APAC region.
Founded
in 1987, ART has several decades'
experience recruiting in the
region for leading North American,
European and Asia-Pacific firms,
as well as on behalf of top Hong
Kong listed firms. (Example: we
placed a C-level Group-level
executive with SEHK:1.)
It
is indeed a great honor for us, an
American executive search firm, to
be routinely used by top Hong Kong
firms to find their managerial
executives in Hong Kong. We are
given this opportunity to serve
these clients because these
companies understand all too well
the difference between working with
an established and trusted
recruitment firm versus working with
an agency that just happens to be in
one city or another.
Being
in a particular place does not train
one to be an expert in executive
search. Nor does it train one to be
ethical. Many people offering
recruitment services of one kind or
another come and go, while ART
continues to build its expertise and
knowledge base, decade after decade.
It
takes years and years to master the
executive search field, and it takes
years and years for a recruitment
firm to develop a candidate base and
sufficient industry knowledge to be
useful to a client company's
critical business mission or to a
person seeking a strong career
advancement.
Our
recruitment in Asia began in the
mid-1990's.
We
recruit in nearly every Asia-Pacific
country. We recruit in nearly every
high-tech, industrial or service
sector, and we recruit for virtually
every department that a company
might have. We know "where the
pieces fit together," and such
interplay and cross-fertilizations
between industries, disciplines and
markets allow ART to serve our
clients and candidates with great
depth and efficiency, wherever we
are needed.
Our
Managers have been interviewed by
major Asian regional and global
business publications, such as CFO
Asia/Economist Group (Hong Kong),
Forbes Asia (Hong Kong), A Plus
Magazine (Hong Kong), Asia Money
(Hong Kong), The Business Times
(Singapore), Science's Next Wave
(Singapore), The Wall Street Journal
(USA), Business Week (USA),
Düsseldorf Handelsblatt (Germany),
Manager-Magazin/Spiegel-Gruppe
(Germany), Trouw (Netherlands), etc.
We have been interviewed by these
major publications because of our
reputation in Asia and globally in
the executive search field.
- We recruit Senior Managers for
companies where the goal is to
increase local market share or to
increase the efficiency of the
business unit. In Hong Kong, often
the best solution is to recruit
Chinese-English bilingual or
multilingual managers who have
strong track records of success in
the markets of Hong Kong, or in
the Asia-Pacific region as a
whole.
- While we try to focus on local
candidates whenever available, we
also recruit foreign managers,
often from Singapore, Malaysia,
Europe, North America or
Australia, who have strong track
records of management in the
region. Some of these candidates
are fully fluent in Chinese
(Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese,
etc.), while others are not. Some
require expatriate benefits
packages, while some do not.
- Our emphasis is to find managers
who perform well in accordance
with the business ethics and
business style of our client
company. The objective is to find
a leader whom the client company
can trust to run their business,
while effectively reaching local
customers, suppliers, and
employees in a way that they will
find comforting.
- Whenever possible, we seek
candidates who have worked at
their best in similar roles
at leading firms, often at our
client's direct competitors or
near-competitors. Familiarity with
the target industry or market
sector usually means faster
success and greater organizational
effectiveness.
- Our candidate searches include
searches for Sole Contributor
managers as well as people able to
lead medium-sized to large groups.
- We take particular care to try
to find people who are accustomed
to working in a business model
that resembles that of the client
company. A person who works well
at a top Hong Kong enterprise, or
even at a large multinational
Western firm, for example, might
not be the right person as
employee #1 at a medium-sized
foreign firm's greenfield business
unit in Hong Kong.
- Searches might be at
the regional level, national
level, or sub-national level.
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