Digital

After 10 years of an established Marketing and Tech presence across Asia, the demand for Digital talent, driven by Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative and the growth of e-commerce, Fintech and digital transformation, saw us enter the Digital space with a specialist team. Most competitor agencies still handled Digital as part of their other teams, with no real customer or front end understanding of a digital business, so our market knowledge, network and expertise gave us access to passive candidates with the skillsets that were in high demand.

Competition for talent is more intense than ever in the Digital market, so our ability to leverage our relationships with passive candidates has become vital. When organisations miss out on top digital talent, it can slow down delivery dates for projects as well as result in inferior platforms and projects. Digital professionals then move elsewhere, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, therefore sourcing the best resources before the competition is crucial.

We believe that our clients, who are at the core of the global post-COVID 19 rebuild, should never have to settle for less, and our relationships across the Digital sector mean they don’t have to. We want to see our candidates flourish in their careers and invest time getting to know them, their motivations, and aspirations, so that we can find them the best fit opportunities.

A great solution for hiring talent into your business quickly and effectively. Whether you’re recruiting for a handful of roles a year or a handful of roles a week, we are here to use our extensive network to find the best candidates for you.

Key features:

• We source and secure high calibre talent using innovative, customised search methods

• Dedicated resourcing of 1 or 2 recruiters in your specific disciplines

• Time to hire: 2 to 4 weeks, including search

• Shortlists within 48 hours

• Pre-agreed timeline to hire​

Why you’ll love it:

• Quick and easy access to engaged and active talent​

• Reduced time to hire

• Less time spent interviewing

• Less time spent reviewing resumes

Hire interim and Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) talent to complement your existing permanent workforce. This solution is best suited to businesses needing to plug skills gaps or bolster existing resource on a short-term basis. Our in-house contractor care team can fully manage your payroll, mobility, and visa processes.

Key features:

• High-quality supply of Interim and FTC resource within required timescales

• Access to our local and global community of candidates and cutting-edge expertise

• All contractors pre-screened and vetted as requested

• Dedicated account manager to provide a single point of contact

• We will onboard and manage contractors throughout the contractor lifecycle, including payrolling

• We always find a cost-efficient way to run projects without compromising on quality with minimal overall impact on current resources

Why you’ll love it:

• Rapidly ramp up & scale down resource to suit your needs

• Cost-efficient way to run projects without compromising on quality

• Bring on contractors without having a payroll or benefits package in place, significantly reducing costs

• Gives you the ability to hire permanent staff when you don’t have the correct legal entity set up

• Faster contractor onboarding

• Helps to mitigate against payroll risks, streamline your financial and commercial processes and improve service delivery

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Carried out by expert researchers, our market maps provide invaluable insight into active and passive candidate communities within specific market areas and aim to help you gain a more comprehensive understanding of your market position.

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Key features:

• Using both our Regional Research Center of Excellence (COE) and experienced in-country Consultants, we will objectively map niche markets

• Fully bespoke from a location, skill set and seniority perspective

• Proactive and organic for quick access and use

Why you’ll love it:

• Better awareness of the candidate pools available in your market

• Increased awareness of your employer brand to help you stand out from the crowd

• Benchmark your talent strategy against the most effective in the market

• Gives you the ability to rapidly ramp up and scale down resource

• Successfully headhunt direct competition to your business

• Arms you with the information you need to make a business case on your talent requirements

• Your experience will be interactive - we’ll empower you and engage candidates towards your brand

Perfect for senior hires or multiple roles requiring similar niche skill sets. We take full responsibility for the entire search – our approach is targeted and specific, we meet and screen all prospective candidates for cultural fit before considering an introduction.

Key features:

• Time to hire: 4-8 weeks, including search and shortlisting

• Pre-defined timelines and start date for the candidate agreed as the search is started

• Dedicated recruitment team on each specific search, to ensure a thorough search and all relevant candidates in the market are spoken to

• Weekly updates on your search

• Option to conduct market mapping and report on your brand perception in the market

• Staggered pricing solutions, in line with different hiring phases

Why you’ll love it:

• You gain preferred access to the best pools of active and passive candidates in your market

• Your experience will be interactive - we’ll empower you and engage candidates towards your brand

• Guaranteed to secure the hire

• Remain anonymous whilst you go out to market

• Easier to plan around a pre-agreed start date

• Ability to spread the cost across a number of weeks or months

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A cost-effective and time-saving solution to help you streamline your hiring process while maintaining total transparency. We will conduct a thorough research on your company’s brand and competitor positioning so we can align your employer brand with your hiring strategy.

Key features:

• Dedicated recruiter embedded into your business – but also still fully connected to the Argyll Scott ecosystem

• Pre-defined SLA’s

• Full account management team and regular reviews

• 100% focus from recruitment team

• Flexible billing structure

Why you’ll love it:

• Cost-saving without quality saving

• Combined benefits of both the search and RPO model

• Search firm brand ambassador and extension of your internal HR / Talent Acquisition team

• Faster to hire because of the better understanding we have of your business

• Market knowledge and intel to help shape your hiring strategies and decisions

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The challenge:

A new tech start-up was launching in Singapore, having been successful in another market, and needed a credible CEO to lead the new business. The investment company behind the start-up had exhausted their own network and hadn’t found anyone of the right calibre, partly because there was no established brand name to attract the top talent, and also because the budget was slightly below the level a top candidate would demand. We were engaged to discuss what options were available to them in this scenario.

Our solution:

We proposed a retainer that would enable us to invest time with each identified top candidate, in order to sell the vision of the business. This effort was the only way we would gain the buy-in and trust of a potential CEO for such a start-up business. We also enlisted our dedicated regional research function who helped generate some strong new profiles to complement our existing network and we secured a strong candidate for the business within a month and a half.

The outcome:

• We controlled the narrative of how the brand was brought to market for the most senior people in Singapore

• We found the right candidate within the desired timeframe

• The client wanted to source the rest of the roles themselves, so we made sure our CEO hire was an attraction and had a strong network

The challenge:

We first began working with our client, a Multinational Beauty Company, when they were going through a period of great change. They were in the midst of pivoting their brand image and had also gone through a large M&A, resulting in lots of redundancies and showing the early warning signs of a negative company culture, making it difficult to attract new talent who could execute the company’s new vision.

They required a highly experienced recruitment partner who knew the market well, could help them develop innovative candidate attraction strategies and manage a full RPO solution. They chose to partner with Argyll Scott because of our shared values. We quickly developed a strong rapport with the HRD, who appreciated our truly consultative approach.

Our solution:

Our RPO solution manages the client’s entire hiring process. From the outset, we established clear SLAs which have adapted with the client’s needs over time. A key part of our solution is our account management team. As we service their roles across five countries, all roles come through our key account manager and then delegated throughout the region. The team also manage the Management Index Report, a detailed weekly update for the client.

Our approach also involves a lot of consulting and coaching of hiring managers, to help understand their needs and build workable solutions. Frequent and transparent two-way communication enables us to sell the roles and the exciting vision of the brand effectively. We’re constantly building a strong pipeline of business-critical talent and refine our solutions to better support their expansion plans.

The outcome:

• We’re a key hiring partner for our client across the region – initial mandate for 20 roles across S&M, A&F, Procurement and Supply Chain functions developed into Argyll Scott filling 60+ retained roles.

• The brand has grown significantly across the APAC region in that time, and we’re hugely proud to have been a part of that. We’ve grown our account management team and capabilities in line with the client’s growth