Real hires, real outcomes.
A selection of searches we've run across Thailand and Southeast Asia: the brief, what made it hard, and how quickly the right person landed. Clients are anonymised where confidentiality requires it.
A Bangkok team built from zero: six hires through an MBB-standard bar
A seed-funded data insights company needed its first Bangkok team: six hires across data engineering, software engineering, analysts and a Head of HR, every one through an MBB-standard interview process. Delivered in two months. Three years on, many are still there.
James HineA founding engineering team, built in a market full of safer offers
The engineers who could build the client's product from nothing could all get roles at far more established companies, and a brand new player had to convince them to be pioneers instead. Retained exclusively, we shortlisted twelve, four were hired, and all four started within 45 days of each other.
Pornpon OngrattanaseneeThe technology team behind a new bank: 58 hires against a remit of 30
A new virtual bank in Thailand needed its technology organisation built from nothing: software engineering, QA, data, cyber security and corporate functions, at a bar that did not move. One embedded True Blue consultant delivered 58 hires in five months, against an initial remit of 30 in three.
The founding CTO the client had already found, and could not reach
The client had searched for months, directly and through another agency, and had even identified the right person themselves. He did not respond. Engaged exclusively, we reached him, and the offer was accepted in under a month.
James HineSix months and twenty interviews without a hire. Then one exclusive mandate.
The client's own talent acquisition team ran the search for six months and interviewed twenty candidates without hiring. Engaged exclusively, we shortlisted two, the client interviewed both, and one was hired with an offer in under two weeks.
James HineA role new to the firm globally, and a profile that barely exists in Thailand
The client needed top-tier consulting experience, real technology depth, commercial instinct and fluency in Thai and English, a combination a fraction of a per cent of the market can offer, while another organisation hunted an almost identical profile. Nine interview rounds later, our candidate was hired.
Daniel HardyA role that had sat open, closed in 50 days against a counter-offer
The client needed more than infrastructure depth: a self-driven change agent to build a new team and lead a cloud transformation, on a tight budget. The role had been open for some time before we took it on. We closed it in 50 days, past a counter-offer.
Phachara CharoensapWhen the local pool ran dry, the search went abroad, and came home
Thailand's pool of emerging technology risk professionals is small, and everyone qualified was already being approached. The role had sat open for several months. We widened the search to Thai professionals abroad with prior local experience, and went from intake to offer in 44 days.
Phachara CharoensapA first Head of Digital Marketing, sourced from a structure, not a competitor
The client's first dedicated marketing hire needed campaign experience from organisations ten times its size while staying hands-on at every stage, and the founder ruled out anyone from a direct competitor. We targeted the one corporate structure that produces that combination, and the hire started within 30 days.
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