Executive Search for Organisations That Need to Get the Leadership Hire Right
PERSOL Singapore’s executive search practice in Singapore is delivered by BTI Executive Search, part of the PERSOL Group. With over 40 years of industry-specialised search experience across Asia since 1982, and offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and India, BTI brings the sector depth, functional expertise, regional relationships, and the structured search methodology that leadership hiring demands.
Our consultants invest significant time at the briefing stage before any market activity begins. We apply a structured needs analysis, then run an integrated search methodology developed specifically for the complexity and cultural diversity of Asia's leadership market. The result is a shortlist built on rigorous assessment, not candidate availability. BTI Executive Search operates from Singapore, Malaysia, and India as part of the PERSOL Group, one of Asia Pacific's largest workforce solutions organisations, with 80+ offices across 13 markets.
Our Integrated Five-Stage Search Model
Business Needs Analysis
We begin with the business, not the vacancy. What has changed in the organisation that makes this role critical now? What leadership capabilities are currently missing? What does genuine success look like at 12 months? The quality of this conversation shapes everything that follows.
Search Strategy Review
We define the search scope, target market, candidate profile, and approach, including whether the right hire is an active candidate or someone who needs to be approached directly and with care.
Candidate Evaluation
We assess candidates against both the technical requirements of the role and the leadership, cultural, and interpersonal dimensions that determine long-term success. We pay particular attention to Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), which are especially consequential in Singapore's multicultural and regionally connected business environment.
Search Confirmation
Every shortlisted candidate is vetted, briefed, and documented before presentation. You receive a detailed profile covering career narrative, assessment observations, and our specific rationale for inclusion.
Engagement and Onboarding
We support the interview process, manage offer negotiation, and stay close through acceptance and the notice period. The search is not complete until the hire has joined and settled.
Industry-Specialised and Functional Search
Our consultants specialise by sector, so the person working your brief understands the leadership profiles, competitive dynamics, and candidate motivations specific to your industry. We conduct executive searches across:
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Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
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Corporate Communications and Public Relations
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Corporate Services (Human Resources, Finance and Accounting, Legal)
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Engineering and Technical
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Healthcare, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals
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Industrial and Manufacturing
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Information Technology
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Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics
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Sales and Marketing
What Sets BTI Executive Search Apart
Over 40 years of executive search in Asia, since 1982
BTI has been conducting industry-specialised leadership searches across Asia for more than four decades. That represents accumulated market relationships, sector knowledge, and cultural insight that newer firms are still building.
Locally based, regionally connected
Our Singapore-based consultants understand the cultural expectations, hiring norms, and candidate motivations specific to Singapore's leadership market. Searches that require regional scope draw on the PERSOL Group's 80+ offices across 13 APAC markets.
Industry-specialised, not generalist
Each consultant specialises in a defined sector or function, so you work with someone who understands your industry, role requirements, and talent market, rather than a generalist adapting a standard process to your brief.
Assessment beyond the CV
We evaluate candidates across technical capability, leadership behaviours, emotional intelligence, and cultural fit. All four dimensions matter at the senior level, and our structured assessment framework is built for leadership hiring, not adapted from professional-level screening.
Part of the PERSOL APACGroup
BTI Executive Search sits within PERSOL APAC, one of Asia Pacific's largest workforce solutions organisations, with 80+ offices across 13 markets. Clients benefit from broader regional talent access, APAC market intelligence, and group-level continuity.
BTI Executive Search: Our Executive Search Practice
Delivered by BTI Executive Search
For senior, board and confidential mandates, PERSOL Singapore works through BTI Executive Search — our dedicated executive search practice within the PERSOL group. BTI consultants bring sector and functional depth in the markets they recruit for, and run retained searches where market knowledge, discretion and access to senior networks determine the outcome.
Explore BTI Executive Search for mandates handled directly by the practice.
Executive Search FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Executive search is a proactive recruitment approach for senior and leadership roles, offered on either a retained or contingent basis. It may include market mapping, targeted headhunting of passive candidates, and in-depth competency-based assessment to identify candidates who are well suited to the role and organisation.
Executive search services in Singapore are delivered by BTI Executive Search, part of the PERSOL Group. BTI has been conducting industry-specialised leadership searches across Asia since 1982, with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and India.
Yes. Managing confidential searches is standard practice. We approach candidates discreetly, position opportunities without revealing the client's identity at the early stage, and manage the process in a way that protects all parties throughout.
We specialise across 10 key sectors: Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Information Technology; Healthcare and Life Sciences; Consumer Markets; Industrial and Manufacturing; Professional Services; Corporate Services, including Human Resources, Finance and Accounting, and Legal; Supply Chain and Procurement; Corporate Communications and Public Relations; and Sales and Marketing.
Yes. BTI Executive Search operates from offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and India, and draws on the PERSOL Group's broader network of 80+ offices across 13 APAC markets for regional or cross-border leadership searches.
Let's Talk About Your Leadership Search
Whether you are planning a CEO succession, building a regional leadership team, or navigating a sensitive replacement search, our consultants are available for a confidential first conversation. There is no obligation, and all discussions are treated with complete discretion.
