By Bharati Jagdish “People can sense insincerity, so being insincere doesn’t serve us,” says Jaime Lim decisively. As Group Business Leader of PeopleSearch Singapore, Jaime’s philosophy since she joined the firm 18 years ago has been to get to […]
By Bharati Jagdish It’s a dramatic mosaic of purpose, courage, grit and strategic-thinking, among other things. After revealing the reasons behind the genesis of PeopleSearch, the various efforts to amplify its presence in the face of more established, formidable […]
By Bharati Jagdish Jared Ng, now Regional Consulting Director of PeopleSearch Hong Kong, knew nothing about the executive search industry when he entered it 20 years ago. Almost immediately after joining PeopleSearch’s very first office in Taiwan, his inadequacies […]
By Bharati Jagdish Jared Ng, now Regional Consulting Director of PeopleSearch Hong Kong took an 80 per cent pay cut about 20 years ago to join the executive search industry. He expresses this matter-of-factly, as if it was an […]
By Bharati Jagdish It was 2002 and Jaime Lim found herself in a quandary. Her career as a recruiter was soaring in a large and successful recruitment firm when she got a phone call. She had spoken at an […]
By Bharati Jagdish Soon after PeopleSearch’s inception, a multitude of forbidding motifs emerged. While grappling with achieving name recognition, the team came up against an economic crisis triggered by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US and soon […]
By Bharati Jagdish It would appear that they each came into the industry by accident, but it was an accident that ultimately revealed their true calling – helping candidates discover their own true calling to elevate their careers, and […]
By Bharati Jagdish The anxiety is almost visceral but Kung Shih-Chan, Group Business Leader at PeopleSearch in Shanghai, doesn’t allude to it immediately. Before describing the emotional toll the situation is taking on him and his team, he sheds […]
Kung Shih-Chan never had it easy in his headhunting career. Having embarked on his recruitment journey with PeopleSearch Taipei in 2006, Kung uprooted himself to move to Shanghai to help establish the brand in 2012. Starting all over again in […]
Christmas came a little early for us this year because the past few weeks have been all about giving and love – which is what HRnetLoves is all about! In the course of our daily work, we are blessed with […]