Please note: ART's recruitment in mainland China has always been solely on behalf of foreign companies, whose goal is to reach Chinese consumers and businesses with their outstanding products, services and practices, or to utilize China's market as a source of products for their firms. In this dynamic but unfortunately still less than transparent market, our preference has always been to only focus on searches for knowable candidates coming from knowable international companies for knowable job roles at knowable business units that are driven by realistic and knowable business goals.

In the mainland China market we ourselves start out by avoiding needless risk. That is a very good starting point to help our candidates and clients to avoid needless risk in their recruitment in China.

It is indeed a great honor for us, an American executive search firm, to be routinely used by top Hong Kong or Taiwanese firms to find their managerial executives at home or in China. 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. In China, 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), China Daily (China), 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 the Greater China region, 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, China and Taiwan, 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 Greater China region. Some of these candidates are fully fluent in Chinese (Mandarin, Taiwanese, and/or Cantonese), 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 Chinese, Taiwanese, or 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 China, Taiwan or Hong Kong.

• Searches might be at the regional level, national level, or sub-national level.

 

Filling Your Local & Global Corporate Needs
Upper Management/  General Management	CEO's, COO's, Presidents, Managing Directors, General Managers, Geschäftsführer, PDG, Country Manager, Regional Vice President, General Director, Chief Representative, etc.
Sales, Marketing &  Business Development	CMO's, Sales and Marketing VPs/ Directors/ Managers, Country Managers, National Sales Managers, Business Development Directors, Global Account Director/ Manager, etc.
Finance Management	CFO's, Finance VPs/ Directors, Financial Controllers, Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis Mgr., etc.
Manufacturing & Operations	COO, Plant Managers, Manufacturing Operations VPs/ Directors, Quality Director, Director of Continuous Improvement, Lean Director, Process Improvement Manager, etc.
Supply Chain Management	VPs/ Directors - Procurement, Materials, Logistics, Distribution, Fulfillment; Sourcing Manager/ Director
Information Technology	CIO's, CTO's, VP's and Directors
R&D and Engineering	CTO's, VP's and Directors
Human Resources & Legal	VP Human Resources, Human Resources Directors, and HR Managers; Chief Legal Counsel

OUR RECRUITMENT SECTORS
DIVERSIFIED SERVICE SECTORS	INDUSTRIAL & HIGH-TECHNOLOGY
IT, SOFTWARE & COMMUNICATIONS	MEDICAL DEVICES & PHARMA
LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES	AUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORT
CONSUMER SERVICES	AEROSPACE
BUSINESS SERVICES	INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT
FINANCIAL SERVICES	SEMICONDUCTOR
INSURANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT	CHEMICALS & ADVANCED MATERIALS
AVIATION SERVICES	CONSUMER PRODUCTS (CPG/FMCG/CE/CD)
NON-PROFIT	ENERGY & POWER GENERATION

ART IN THE HONG KONG AND WORLD PRESS

To learn more about ART's approach to senior management executive search in Hong Kong, Asia, and beyond, you may read online interviews with ART management. Some interviews that might be of particular interest to companies and candidates: click here