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OUR RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN MALAYSIA
In Malaysia, we recruit experienced, world-class Local and Expatriate Senior Managers for Leading Companies, in charge of Malaysia-level, Southeast Asian (ASEAN), or for wider Asia-Pacific Regional responsibilities.
We are asked to find people who can act as Sole Contributors or as managers who can run large departments or business units.

ART recruits senior leaders across:

Our cross‑border search capabilities allow companies to access talent across the entire APAC region.


ART's Record in Malaysia Executive Search

Our first placement in Malaysia was in 2011 - an outstanding woman whom we placed as Sales Director for a leading North American aerospace firm. Since that time, with our work embracing dozens of industrial and service sector categories, we have recruited great Malaysian candidates for roles such as Regional General Manager, Asia-Pacific Sales Manager, Asia Sales Director, Asia-Pacific Finance Director, Supply Chain Director, etc. And often in Malaysia we have found excellent Manufacturing heads to run factories in other Asian countries.

We first started recruiting in Southeast Asia in the mid-1990's. With this depth of experience across most disciplines in the high-tech, industrial, and service sectors, ART's executive search services exceed the capabilities and training of our competitors in the ASEAN market. This is why notable ASEAN business publications such as the Singapore Business Times, HR Management Asia, and Science's Next Wave have sought our managers' views on recruitment, economy, careers and Asian market trends.

Throughout Malaysia we recruit Managers for companies where the goal is to increase local market share or to increase the efficiency of the foreign business unit. Often the best solution is to recruit highly qualified local or resident expatriate managers who have strong track records of success in the Malaysia national market, or in the Southeast Asia (ASEAN) or Asia-Pacific markets as a whole.

  • 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 our 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 similar 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. We are trained headhunters who know how to find such candidates.
  • 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 national 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 a particular country..

When the position to be filled involves a responsibility beyond the Malaysia country-level, such as a Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific Region, an ASEAN Sales Director, or an Asia-Pacific VP Finance, we take special care to seek out people who bring deep experiences across the Asian region, with respect, knowledge and insight into the many varied cultures of Asia. Such managers tend to bring out the best from their local staff, customers, and suppliers, and help make a greater business for our client companies.


Unlike nearly every single Malaysian recruitment firm, ART has never used advertisements to find candidates for our clients.
  • Advertising is, at best, a hit-or-miss, luck-based recruitment strategy. If a recruitment firm relies on advertising, they are not doing executive search. They are merely placing advertisements and poorly trained clerks are left to determine if candidates fit the client's needs. This kind of standard might be acceptable for general labor recruitment but it is far too risky for international corporations to rely on such slapdash methods in order to find their Head of Asia-Pacific Sales, or to find their next Regional Vice President, for example..
  • ART client companies do not hire us to be lucky. ART is an American executive search firm founded in 1987. Our recruiters are all "headhunters," not advertisement-placers. Our clients hire us because we know candidates in the right locations and at the right companies.. These are candidates whom we have known for years, and in the event that they are not available, they are people whom we can rely on to refer us to even more suitable candidates. These relationships grow from years of trust.. Good candidates recommending other good candidates. Our clients look to us for these informed "insider" contacts.
  • Our clients hire us because we know the profiles that will work well for their company's critical Asia-Pacific business mission. How do we have this special knowledge? It comes from our firm recruiting in our clients' industries and markets on a global and regional scale for decades. We therefore have seen business models that work well and business models that failed. We understand the kind of profiles that are likely to bring success for our new clients, based on our experiences witnessing many similar business models.
  • This is what experience, professionalism and good business ethics brings: success for our clients, and success for our candidates' careers.

OUR RECRUITMENT FOCUS IN MALAYSIA
SECTOR CATEGORY
EXAMPLES
Semiconductor Semiconductor Materials, Semiconductor Packaging


CPG & FMCG Cosmetics, Food, Wellness Products


Consumer Services Retail, Luxury Goods


Software & IT Services Enterprise Software, SaaS


Aerospace & Aviation Aviation Services


Logistics & Supply Chain Services Air Cargo, Sea Cargo



Our Recruitment Practices
SEMICONDUCTORS & ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT CONSUMER PRODUCTS & SERVICES
AUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORT AEROSPACE & AVIATION MEDICAL & HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
ENERGY & POWER GENERATION CHEMICALS & ADVANCED MATERIALS AGRIBUSINESS
IT & NETWORK SERVICES ENGINEERING SERVICES (EPC) LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES
FINANCIAL SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES (B2B) NON-PROFIT


   

 


 

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