ART seeks to recruit the best New Zealand candidates at home and abroad for our clients' vacancies, be they in New Zealand or globally. Our typical searches involve these scenarios:

• New Zealand Companies seeking Managers for their foreign business units
• Foreign Companies seeking Managers for their NZ business units
• New Zealand Companies seeking Managers for their NZ business units

 

ART recruits senior leaders across:

• C‑suite: CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CIO

• General Management: Country Manager, Managing Director, President

• Commercial Leadership: VP Sales, Sales Director, Business Development

• Finance Management: CFO, VP Finance, Controller, Planning & Analysis, M&A
  

• Operations & Manufacturing: VP Operations, Plant Manager, Engineering Director

• Supply Chain & Procurement: Logistics Directors, S&OP Leaders

• Technology: CTO, VP Engineering, R&D Director, Technical Director

• Information Technology: CIO, CISO, VP IT, Director Data Center

• 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.

Since 1987, ART has recruited the best senior managers across most industries, so we begin a search with candidates and contacts who come from your industry. These human contacts with leaders in your industry make your ART search an effective and efficient one. Our headhunting of additional candidates from that great starting base of candidates helps us to bring you even more choices.

Many of our competitors, by contrast, rely on hit-or-miss, purely luck-based strategies such as advertising jobs on the internet or boasting of "networks" of similarly hapless recruiters abroad in order to "source" candidates for their clients. We at ART do not "source" people. We know people. We know what kinds of candidate matches are likely to work best to solve a client's needs. How do we know this? This is what hiring an experienced executive search firm is all about.

When you hire ART, you get a skilled headhunter with a minimum of 10 years' relevant expertise. Your headhunter will be directly involved at every stage of your search. If your search crosses international frontiers, s/he will be directly doing the recruitment personally, and will be responsible for the search's ultimate success or its failure. You see, ART never "partners" with other search firms in the 100+ countries where we recruit. If we feel that we cannot do the search properly, we do not accept the assignment. We control the timing, quality and ethics of the search from start to finish.

We take pride in our track record, and as our headhunters are paid only if you find our candidate is suitable enough to your needs to make the hire, our focus is to find those matches that are best for our clients and candidates. That's why we've been in business and have expanded our reach over these decades. This is how leaders from your industry know to entrust us with their careers. Nothing special, no magic. Just doing the job right the first time.

When NZ candidates or NZ companies need to look beyond their immediate cities, or across the nation, ART is equipped to help introduce the right contacts.

We know and respect local markets while serving as a bridge between them. This is the great value that ART brings its clients and candidates in NZ, as well as foreign firms seeking NZ CEO's, Managing Directors, General Managers, Finance Directors, National Sales Directors, etc. who can reach all NZ. The alternative - engaging multiple search firms in multiple cities simply to identify top national candidates - is simply too impractical, too costly, too much prone to delays and other inefficiencies.

When NZ candidates or NZ companies need to look beyond New Zealand, and into Asia, North America, Latin America, Europe, the Mideast or Africa, ART is able to help introduce the right contacts.

Unlike most recruitment firms based in NZ, which have to depend upon outsourced foreign recruiters and unclear partnerships for overseas searches, ART does 100% of all our own recruitment. We recruit directly in over 100 countries, and we never use any other recruitment company to find our candidates. In this way, we are able to deliver excellent candidates with the same level of efficiency and quality of service that is expected in our clients' home countries.

ART understands the results-oriented, unbureaucratic executive management demands of fast-paced NZ businesses, and perhaps this is why even the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) entrusted ART to conduct a key management search abroad for them. Because we recruit globally, we understand well what kinds of management style it takes to help NZ businesses prospect and develop new markets abroad.

Yes, for some companies, at first, it seems easy to simply parachute in a Kiwi expat employee into a new country, as that employee's track record has already been well known to the firm. But after that first greenfield stage of business development, often local realities require the best local candidates to open doors and to expand the foreign business unit. This is even true in other English-speaking countries!

ART's solution is simple: we seek out the best local candidates from your firm's competition. World-class managers who could succeed anywhere on earth. People who know the local market, know the local language of business, and who also understand your products and customer markets. By searching for such lower risk candidates who have the shortest learning curves, we hope to find people who could expand your overseas business as quickly and as efficiently as possible.