Human Resources Online, Southeast Asia Q4 - Special Edition 'Vendors of The Year Singapore 2022'

The smart HR professional’s blueprint for workforce strategy SINGAPORE

October-December 2022

ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION

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editor-in-chief

Aditi Sharma Kalra

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A BUSINESS IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS PEOPLE

The past few years have proven how valuable it is to retain and hire top talent. The best performers look to companies that celebrate diversity, provide flexibility, support career development, and are dedicated to progressing their people practices. A good company is considered one which has a work environment that employees enjoy coming into, where they feel like their contributions are being valued, and their efforts are being driven towards a greater purpose.

As a result, for HR professionals, some of the biggest challenges lie in ensuring the employee experience remains seamless in the new ways of working; enabling access to people platforms for learning, performance, and careers; and essentially, over investing in the employee experience.

All of this requires strong HR leadership – backed by an ecosystem of partners that unlocks access to data, insights, content, and communication that otherwise would not have been possible.

Cue the longstanding HR Vendors of the Year research. The region’s most prestigious platform for honouring HR partners and solution providers has returned for its 17th year to showcase the greatest contributors to the HR support ecosystem.

To complete the headline we started this letter with, a business is only as good as its people, and a people strategy is only as good as the calibre of its co-creators. Every CHRO will continue to rely on prolific solution providers to bring ideas and policies to life.

As this is our final e-magazine for 2022, we hope you take some time out for yourself to recharge this year-end. The upcoming festive season is the perfect time to surround yourself with all things wonderful, be it spending time with your loved ones, wrapping up your most treasured project at work, or treating yourself to a new hobby! We wish you the best of health, happiness, and success in 2023.

Enjoy the read.

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Whether you’re looking for solution providers to aid you with recruitment, training, C&B, coaching, staff management, HR management, corporate culture, corporate wellbeing, leadership, or anything in between, this is the annual special edition to bookmark for year-round decisionmaking. We have also provided you contact details on the winners and finalists to ease your process of getting in touch.

Aditi Sharma Kalra Editor-in-Chief

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SCOUTING FOR THE REGION’S BIGGEST HR INNOVATORS

Amid all the upheaval the world has seen in recent times, opportunities were found in the most challenging of times. What stood out for us at Human Resources Online (HRO) is that the HR profession was presented with the opportunity to become a vital enabler of an organisation’s ability to thrive in an ever-evolving world.

Staying true to its value of sustainable progress through people strategies, HR is now able to hold its decisions accountable to real business results through outcome-driven metrics.

As HR continues to strive for a better future for the business and its workforce, we salute the HR solution providers who solve real business needs for Asia’s HR decision makers. We are heartened to bring back the HR Vendors of the Year research for its 17th edition, where vendors were ranked based on a twotier selection process, including robust assessments by HR practitioners.

The HR Vendors of the Year represents a long-running annual ranking that recognises and celebrates the very best HR solution providers in Asia. Our judging criteria has remained stringent throughout so the listings truly represent what the industry considers genuinely useful, innovative, and value for their investment.

BRAND NEW CATEGORIES

This year, we have 31 award categories, carefully designed to identify the vendors that have delivered excellence in growing their business by serving the HR community. What’s special about this year is the introduction of two new categories: Leader of the Year to honour company

heads who guided and inspired their organisations through truly unprecedented times during the pandemic; and Local Hero, for local independents and start-ups founded in Singapore.

A ROBUST ASSESSMENT PROCESS

Keeping in mind the range of categories finalised this year, we continued to keep our vendor judging process truly robust and effective. The HR Vendors of the Year 2022 awards were based on a two-tier selection process. For the first step, HRO conducted an online survey to gather a list of category front runners. Each of these contenders then provided us with a submission form, detailing their prowess in terms of the 4Ps – performance, product, people, and perspective.

For the next step, an esteemed jury of 18 senior regional heads of HR judged and scored the finalists’ profiles, based on the holistic judging criteria. These criteria included key facts, milestones, achievements, challenges, and solutions, to help the judges score each entry based on facts, figures, and experience.

The industry practitioners on the jury brought valuable experience and depth to the process, and represented some of the most respected employers in Asia.

After the rounds of judging, scores obtained from the judges led us to identifying gold, silver, and bronze winners across a majority of the categories, along with a list of finalists.

The hugely coveted trophies to be taken home were handed out at a gala dinner held across the markets represented by the awards.

JURY FOR HR VENDORS OF THE YEAR 2022, SINGAPORE

NAME DESIGNATION

Saurabh Jain Head of HR APAC

Kelly Chua Head, Global Human Resources

Richmond Kok Corporate Director, Learning & Talent Development

Manish Verma

Global Leader for Talent

Calvin Tay Human Resources Director

COMPANY

ABN AMRO

ASMPT Singapore

Capella Hotel Group

Cargill

China Telecom Global

Angelina Chua Deputy Group Chief Human Resource Officer ComfortDelGro

Jacely Voon

Sathiaseelan Margammuthu

Audrey Khoo

Gayatheri Silvakumer

Pauline Loo

Chief People Officer/General Manager, People Culture & CSR

Head of Talent Acquisition APAC & Employer Branding (SEA)

Senior Director, Human Resources, Southeast Asia/ Malaysia GBS

Chief HR & Talent Officer, APAC

Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Fujifilm Business Innovation

Henkel

Herbalife Nutrition

McCann Worldgroup

Nippon Sanso Holdings Singapore

Jenni Lim Head of HR Asia Pacific Semperit

Michelle Ong Head of HR, APAC & ISC

Karen Lim

Neelima Ghei

Janice Yee

Anita

Shipco Transport

Head of Human Resources, Asia Pacific Region Skyworks Solutions Inc.

Senior Director, Compensation & Benefits –Asia Pacific Stryker

Head of Human Resources, Growth & Emerging Markets (GEM)

Takeda

Pharmaceuticals International AG (Singapore Branch)

Rajendran-See Director, Human Capital Vertical Oceans Pronob Jyoti Chetia Director, HR & Communication – Asia Pacific Region Volvo Group Trucks Operations

BEST AI RECRUITMENT SOFTWARE

More and more recruitment teams, both in-house, and recruitment firms themselves, are leveraging the power of AI to help them source, filter, and hire the best applicants.

Winners of the Best AI Recruitment Software category provide tools that are designed to simplify and mainstream the process of recruitment and matchmaking, providing HR professionals a game-changing way to hire the top talent from any field.

THE TALENT GAMES

The Talent Games gamifies and digitises HR recruitment processes using AI-driven online, gamified assessments to help organisations attract, engage, shortlist, and hire top Millennial and Gen Z candidates. It aims to empower companies and their recruitment teams to conduct unlimited candidate assessments by using these gamified assessments to shortlist the best talent available. Its virtual hiring solutions include customised gamified assessments (recruitment games), C-factor standard game (ready-to-play platform), social media employer branding, virtual assessment centres, and end-toend virtual recruitment (all-in-one solution).

SHL

SHL leverages AI technology, data science, and objectivity to help companies attract, develop, and grow the workforce they need to succeed in the digital era. From talent acquisition to talent management, it helps companies create the diverse, agile, and innovative workforce that they need to succeed in an unpredictable environment. The group’s vision is to bring the power of objectivity to every people decision, and its mission is to provide a suite of solutions to drive people insights using its blend of science and technology.

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong is a human capital management SaaS platform that focuses on delivering a great employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. Its tech capabilities span across the employee life cycle from hire to exit, including human capital management, payroll, talent acquisition and management, and collaboration.

PeopleStrong is rated among the top five in APAC at Gartner’s Peer Insights, and was voted as the ‘Customers’ Choice of HR Tech’ in the Gartner Voice of Customer report for a range of employee enterprises.

WINNERS GOLD THE TALENT GAMES SILVER SHL BRONZE PEOPLESTRONG

Website: www.thetalentgames.com

Email: daniyal@thetalentgames.com

Website: www.shl.com Email: grace.wang@shl.com

Website: www.peoplestrong.com

Email: mel.thomas@peoplestrong.com

BEST APPLICANT TRACKING SOFTWARE

This category recognises the most intuitive and effective applicant tracking systems (ATS) that streamline the candidate management process. These winners provide the most holistic and comprehensive ATS packages that save both time and effort while unlocking value for customers.

WINNERS

PEOPLESTRONG

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong is a human capital management SaaS platform that focuses on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. It strives to simplify work-life at large enterprises across emerging economies in Asia Pacific through its mobile-first, AI and ML-powered talent operating system. PeopleStrong’s tech capabilities span across the employee life cycle from hire to exit, including human capital management, payroll, talent acquisition and management, and collaboration.

ARYAN SOLUTIONS

Founded in 2008, Aryan Solutions specialises in providing IT consulting, technology services, staffing, managed services, and search to local, and multinational companies, within APAC, SEA, India, and Australia. It supports clients in financial services, hedge funds, asset management, telecommunications, information technology, manufacturing, and government and public sectors. Headquartered in Singapore, the firm also has offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Lucknow, India.

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

QuickHR by Enable Business is a holistic cloud-based HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. Every part is designed with security, stability and ease-ofuse in mind. Providing a seamless interconnected HRMS system, the QuickHR platform enables businesses to quickly and efficiently manage their employees’ payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more. QuickHR has achieved the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard MTCS SS584:2020 Level 2.

Website: www.peoplestrong.com Email: mel.thomas@peoplestrong.com

Website: https://www.aryan-solutions.com/ Email: Vikram@aryan-solutions.com

Website: http://www.quickhr.co/ Email: business@quickhr.co

BEST ATTENDANCE AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

This category recognises the best automated time & attendance software (TNA) systems that help employers manage time-in and out, reporting, and compliance. Judges looked for effectiveness, ease-of-use, and compatibility with other reporting processes such as payroll and leave applications.

OPENSOFTHR

Opensoft Time & Attendance is a smart attendance system built with biometric and mobile clocking capabilities to facilitate the daily tracking of employees’ attendance. It also helps in reducing the occurrence of time theft by applying rounding rules and restricting schedules, as well as eliminating the common problem of buddy punching when using biometric access control machines.

Website: www.opensofthr.com Email: sales@opensofthr.com

SWINGVY

Swingvy is an all-in-one people operations platform that helps SMEs to engage and manage their employees in one place. By seamlessly connecting all HR information – employee data, payroll, claims, time-tracking, and leave – Swingvy automates administrative HR work, enabling SMEs to improve their people management, and remain compliant with local statutory regulations.

Website: www.swingvy.com Email: marketing@swingvy.com

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

QuickHR by Enable Business is a holistic cloudbased HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. Each part is designed with security, stability, and ease-ofuse in mind, while allowing businesses to quickly and efficiently manage their employees’ payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more –all through an interconnected system.

Website: www.quickhr.co Email: business@quickhr.co

BIPO

BIPO’s enterprise-ready HRMS platform automates HR processes, simplifies workflows, and delivers actionable insights. Complemented by its payroll outsourcing solutions and global PEO (EoR) services, the team supports businesses to manage today’s global workforce. Headquartered in Singapore, the team works to support its customers’ payroll and people solutions needs through a global network across more than 100 countries.

Website: www.biposervice.com Email: hello@biposervice.com

INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

Info-Tech Cloud’s HRMS is designed to help employers and employees to perform at their fullest capacity, boost productivity, and overall employee satisfaction. The HR software is used by all sizes of businesses and industries mainly to assist them with attendance tracking, time sheets, employee management, payroll, leave, expenses, and performance appraisals.

Website: www.info-tech.com.sg Email: sales@info-tech.com.sg

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong is a human capital management SaaS platform focusing on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decisionmaking, and agility for businesses. Its leave and attendance module is a unified, intuitive, and intelligent technology platform that offers employee-friendly leave and attendance, thus taking the inconvenience and hassle out of the process.

Website: www.peoplestrong.com Email: mel.thomas@peoplestrong.com

BEST CORPORATE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

The Best Corporate Healthcare Providers have added meaningful value and cost savings for their corporate clients through initiatives and efforts that directly led to reduced absenteeism due to poor employee health, and/or to an increase in productivity because of the partnership.

FULLERTON HEALTH

Fullerton Health is a leading vertically integrated healthcare platform in the Asia Pacific region. Founded in Singapore in 2010, today the company serves clients through more than 550 healthcare facilities, and a large network of healthcare providers across nine markets in Asia Pacific. Fullerton Health’s value proposition is the integration of healthcare service offerings with customised management and advisory capabilities, in line with its purpose to deliver affordable and accessible care for all in the Asia Pacific region.

IHP

Integrated Health Plans (IHP) is a health and wellness benefits administrator. With an industry track record of more than 25 years, it provides comprehensive services in medical and flexible benefits administration, wellness, and workplace health. In recent years, IHP has further expanded its network to cater to emerging needs in mental health and home care, and to deliver end-toend solutions, including corporate wellness programmes, chronic disease management, and other corporate health solutions.

Website: https://www.fullertonhealth.com/ Email: sales@fullertonhealth.com

Website: https://www.ihp.com.sg/ Email: sales@ihp.com.sg

CIGNA EUROPE INSURANCE COMPANYSINGAPORE BRANCH (CIGNA SINGAPORE)

In Singapore and beyond, Cigna is a strong believer in total health and wellness, and prides itself on delivering personalised solutions that are simple, affordable, and effective. Its solutions are categorised into group health insurance plans for organisations of all sizes, and individual health insurance plans for individuals and families. These plans have been carefully designed to be simple, flexible, and customisable, to meet clients’ specific needs and to deliver peace of mind.

Website: http://www.cigna.com.sg/

Email: Singapore.Feedback@Cigna.com

BEST CORPORATE WELLNESS PROVIDERS

The winners and finalist of this award do an affirmative job in keeping their clients’ workforces healthy through their products and services. Judges looked for an emphasis on preventative and proactive strategies to cut down health-related expenditure for clients, with specialty solutions such as company-sponsored nutrition, exercise, ergonomic office design, and much more.

AIA SINGAPORE

Together with its subsidiaries, AIA Group is the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group, present in 18 markets with wholly owned branches and subsidiaries in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and more. Its purpose is to help people live healthier, longer, and better lives; enabling them to manage their health, while meeting their long-term protection needs.

MERCER

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and wellbeing. The team strives to do this by meeting the needs of today and tomorrow, understanding data and applying it with a human touch, and turning ideas into action to spark positive change. The firm operates in 130 markets with teams in 43 markets, including Singapore.

INTELLECT

Intellect is a mental health tech company providing end-to-end mental health solutions for individuals and companies. It serves millions of members, Fortune 500 and leading employers, insurance and reinsurance agencies, and strategic partners, to make mental healthcare more accessible, relatable, and stigma-free. The company’s app is hyper localised in 15 languages and available in over 22 countries.

CIGNA

Website:

https://www.aia.com.sg/en/index.html

BEST

This category recognises the best providers for digital learning. The winners and finalist have demonstrated how their lessons were available for e-learning and accessible via mobile. Most importantly, they have shown how the products/ services were meaningful, memorable, and motivational for clients.

SOCO SALES TRAINING

SOCO Sales Training is a sales optimisation company that helps build high-performance sales teams in organisations across Asia and worldwide, through a combination of e-learning and virtual instructor-led training. Its e-learning platform was developed to make online learning fun and effective, while helping leaders easily monitor and track results, with programmes available in English, Indonesian, Thai, Mandarin, and Vietnamese.

GP STRATEGIES

GP Strategies is a global workforce transformation partner that helps companies achieve superior business and operating results, and transform them into more agile and efficient organisations. The company provides custom learning solutions catered to every level of an organisation – from the C-suite to the front line, including leadership development, managed learning services, digital learning strategies, and more.

PEOPLE POTENTIAL

People Potential is a Kuala Lumpur-based L&D firm that has been in Singapore for nearly 20 years. Over several decades, it has worked with multinational corporations in 22 countries spread across five continents. Emulating how large law firms develop specialists, the firm has set up the following five practice areas: behaviour change systems, business presentations, instructional design, leadership development, and virtual learning.

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong is one of Asia Pacific’s leading human capital management SaaS platforms that focuses on delivering a great employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. Its HR tech products are delivered across multiple segments, be it talent acquisition, human capital management, talent management covering the entire candidate as well as the employee life cycle, from recruitment to retirement..

WINNERS GOLD SOCO SALES TRAINING SILVER GP STRATEGIES BRONZE PEOPLE POTENTIAL

FINALIST PEOPLESTRONG

BEST EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SOFTWARE

The top employee engagement software recognised in this category is designed to drive employee engagement and performance by facilitating an impactful and meaningful work culture.

WINNERS

QUALTRICS

Qualtrics is helping companies and governments improve the ways people experience the world. It helps organisations tune into what matters most to employees and customers, and then take confident, meaningful action with empathy, speed, and scale. This gives organisations the ultimate advantage in their journeys to retain and attract talent, create and enable engaged highperforming teams, and find and keep customers. Since launching in Asia Pacific and Japan in 2015, Qualtrics has continually scaled its operations across the region, helping iconic organisations deliver incredible employee experiences.

MERCER

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and wellbeing. The team strives to do this by meeting the needs of today and tomorrow, understanding data and applying it with a human touch, and turning ideas into action to spark positive change. For 75 years, it has been providing trusted advice and solutions to build healthier and more sustainable futures for clients, colleagues and communities. Mercer operates in 130 markets, with teams in 43 markets, including in Singapore.

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong is a human capital management SaaS platform that focuses on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. It strives to simplify work-life at large enterprises across emerging economies in Asia Pacific, through its mobile-first, AI and ML-powered talent operating system. PeopleStrong’s tech capabilities span across the employee life cycle from hire to exit, including human capital management, payroll, talent acquisition and management, and collaboration.

Website: https://www.qualtrics.com/ Email: press@qualtrics.com

Website: www.mercer.com.sg Email: mimi.wong@mercer.com

Website: www.peoplestrong.com Email: mel.thomas@peoplestrong.com

BEST EMPLOYEE INSURANCE PROVIDERS

With healthcare costs rising, many companies have found that prevention (keeping staff healthy) is cheaper than cure (healing them when they’re sick). Winners and finalists of this category have shown how their products/services help reduce spend on doctors and hospitals while curbing the cost of absenteeism and low productivity by more than the cost of prevention for clients.

AIA SINGAPORE

AIA Group, along with its subsidiaries, is an independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group. It is present in 18 markets, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and India. The group strives to make a significant and positive impact for its customers and communities across Asia. Its purpose – to help one billion people live healthier, longer, and better lives – guides the decisions it makes, empowering and enabling people to understand and manage their health, while meeting their long-term savings and protection needs.

Website: www.aia.com.sg/ Email: Dawn-MY.Teo@aia.com

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY SINGAPORE

Prudential Assurance Company Singapore is a life insurance company that provides protection, savings, and investment-linked plans. The firm has been serving the financial needs of Singapore for 91 years, delivering a suite of product offerings and professional advisory through its network of more than 5,000 financial consultants and its bank partners. Its corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise clients benefit from its specialised enterprise business solutions. The group also offers a dedicated advice and service-led offering, Opus by Prudential, to its high-net-worth customers.

Website: www.prudential.com.sg

Email: SGP.ES.NewBusiness@prudential.com.sg

In Singapore and beyond, Cigna Singapore is a strong believer of total health and wellness, and prides itself on delivering personalised solutions that are simple, affordable, and effective. Its solutions are categorised into group health insurance plans for organisations of all sizes, and individual health insurance plans for individuals and families. The group’s plans have been carefully designed to be simple, flexible, and customisable to meet clients’ specific needs and to deliver peace of mind.

Website: www.cigna.com.sg

Email: Singapore.Feedback@Cigna.com

HOWDEN INSURANCE BROKERS

Howden is an independent employee benefits (EB) insurance expert, helping clients to thrive in an ever-changing world. Part of Howden Group Holdings, it acts on behalf of its clients as insurance brokers. The group’s EB specialists develop appealing and sustainable insurance programmes for its clients and their employees. The firm’s solutions include the Howden MediHub, a self-managed app with a full-service, employee-focused, tech-enabled healthcare insurance facility designed to lighten employees’ and HR teams’ operational hassles.

PACIFIC PRIME CXA

Pacific Prime CXA is a global corporate insurance broker and employee benefits specialist with over two decades of experience servicing corporate clients of various sizes and industries –from SMEs and leading multinational companies to professional servicing firms and international schools, and beyond. It provides expert and impartial advice, value-added services, and assistance to clients, as well as utilises its technological capabilities and technology-driven partnerships to stay ahead of the curve.

Website: https://www.howdengroup.com/sg-en Email: enquiries@sg.howdengroup.com

Website: www.pacificprime-cxa.com Email: marketing@pacificprime.com

This category recognises the best employer of record (EoR) service providers that offer employment to employees on an organisation’s behalf, and manage some or all aspects of the HR function, including recruitment, 'employee assistance, payroll, insurance, benefits, and more.

GLOBALIZATION PARTNERS

A pioneer in the EoR industry, Globalization Partners helps companies find, hire, onboard, and manage teams swiftly. Its platform and in-country expertise help businesses access talent in over 180 countries without subsidiaries or local branches. Its offerings include recruitment management, onboarding, benefits administration, payroll, time and expense management, and global help desk services.

LINKS INTERNATIONAL

Founded in Hong Kong, Links International specialises in delivering 100% in-country payroll services and tech. Voted the best payroll outsourcing partner for seven consecutive years, the group’s offerings cover all aspects of HR operations, with solutions that include payroll outsourcing, visa application, PEO/EoR secondment, recruitment, employee assistance programmes, and outplacement services.

MULTIPLIER

Multiplier was born in 2020, with an approach and technology that allows companies to employ talent anywhere in the world, as quickly and easily as they would hire talent locally. Customers are able to tap into its business infrastructure using a cloud-based SaaS platform that assists multinational businesses with managing global employment, payroll, cross-border payments, freelancers, and contractors.

AYP GROUP

Headquartered in Singapore, AYP Group is positioned with a regional presence that continues to grow across Asia Pacific. Equipped with a team of in-country human resource advisors, and realworld marketplace insights and knowledge, it helps its partners develop their business expansion goals via its all-in-one HR platform, AYP Global Pay, which provides EoR outsourcing partner solutions, payroll management, and freelancer management.

FINALIST AYP GROUP

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The Best HR Outsourcing Partner category honours organisations with the capability to supply a comprehensive and customisable suite of services and HR professionals poised to fit the business needs of their clients seamlessly.

LINKS INTERNATIONAL

Links International specialises in delivering 100% in-country payroll services and tech with a commitment to providing clients with smart HR solutions to help their business run more efficiently. Its services cover all aspects of HR operations, with solutions that include payroll outsourcing, visa application, PEO/EoR secondment, recruitment, EAPs, and outplacement services. The team has also introduced new services such as earned wage access, Asia salary benchmarking, flight risks and SLAs reporting, and online visa and tax applications.

BIPO SERVICE (SINGAPORE)

BIPO’s passion for technology and innovation empowers businesses with increased efficiency and convenience. Its enterprise-ready HRMS platform automates HR processes, simplifies workflows, and delivers actionable insights in a bid to build the best employee experience. Complemented by its payroll outsourcing solutions and global PEO (EoR), it supports businesses to manage today’s global workforce. Singapore is home to BIPO’s Global Innovation Hub comprising a team of data scientists, business analysts, and RPA developers/engineers.

ENABLE GROUP ASIA

Established in 2013, Enable Consulting is an HR firm that specialises in HRMS and HRIS solutions for enterprises. The team believes that having a robust HR management system is pivotal to sustaining growth in any flourishing business. With this faith, it has established connections with clients that represent varying industries requiring HR support. Its consultants are highly trained professionals backed with a magnitude of experience in HR management services.

Website:

Website: www.biposervice.com Email: hello@biposervice.com

Website: https://enablegroupasia.com/ Email: clientservices@enablegroupasia.com

BEST EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS

Executive search firms partner with clients to assess and acquire talent for senior-level and executive jobs. Winners and finalists of this category specialise in headhunting, which involves robust leadership assessments and multiple in-depth conversations to identify individuals who are strategic in driving transformation and success.

CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SINGAPORE

Cornerstone Global Partners Group is a recruitment solutions and HR technology platform delivering executive search, contracting, recruitment process outsourcing, and HR outsourcing services to MNCs and local firms. The company has won several awards, including Best Innovation in Recruitment at previous HR Vendors of the Year awards for its proprietary AI-enabled O2O recruitment platform.

ASLANT LEGAL

Aslant Legal is a legal specialist executive search firm. The specialism of its consultants, combined with an industry background and an established network of contacts, uniquely positions the team to deliver high quality candidates and bespoke solutions to its clients.

Website: https://www.cgpo2o.sg/ Email: enquiriessg@cgptalent.com

BOYD & MOORE EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Boyd & Moore Executive Search provides talent and leadership solutions to multinational businesses looking to enter, scale, or repair their businesses in Asia Pacific. It focuses on executive-level and mission-critical hires, while also offering solutions including executive search, RPO, market-entry services, market mapping, employer branding, project hiring, and leadership assessments.

GATEWAY SEARCH

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm that was established in June 2018, offering a suite of HR recruitment services such as executive search, customised interim solutions, customised RPO, talent resourcing, and market intelligence services. It has also expanded its services by taking on volume recruitment to adapt to current market demands.

Website: https://aslantlegal.com/ Email: marketing@aslantlegal.com

Website: www.bmes.com Email: jonas@bmes.com

Website: https://www.gateway-search.com/ Email: admin@gateway-search.com

JC CONSULTING

JC Consulting is an HR and business consulting company headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. Its team of consultants is on a mission to empower people, and enable businesses to reach their full potential through bespoke services such as in-depth research and analysis on potential new markets, talent succession planning, and more.

RECRUIT INC

Recruit Inc provides an array of talent search services and hiring solutions to clients across all sectors, with a special focus on the healthcare, and sports and wellness sectors. Its three strategic business services include: permanent placement services (for new or replacement positions), HR consultancy unit which functions as an outsourced business partner, and project management unit, which helps find talent.

SALT TALENT SEARCH

Salt Talent Search is a global recruitment agency established in 2003, specialising in the digital landscape. The firm sees digital recruitment as ‘working with businesses through digital disruption, innovation, transformation, and business change’. With offices in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and more, Salt consultants are finding new roles for people in some of the most exciting start-ups, agencies and global powerhouses.

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RECRUITMENT AND CONSULTANCY SOLUTIONS.

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As part of the Robert Walters Group, we offer a suite of tailored, premium, end-to-end recruitment solutions and a global footprint across 31 countries.

We strive to make a positive social impact through solutions that champion untapped and underrepresented talent. As powerful talent partners, we put expertise, intelligence and innovation at the forefront to redefine work so everyone has a lifetime of opportunity.

Our outsourced permanent and contingent talent solutions are underpinned by 24/5 Global Service and powered by our Centre of Expertise (CoE), enabling our partners to scale and rapidly advance their business agendas.RSConsultancy provides expert guidance in Assessment, ESG and Brand & Experience, while our award-winning Diverse Hiring Practitioners can help organisations to audit and re-engineer their recruitment processes. RSIntelligence, our on-demand, cloud-based, talent intelligence solution, empowers leaders to make data-led decisions that deliver impact.

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BEST HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (ENTERPRISE)

The best payroll, ATS, LMS, and TMS systems, are often excellent, but many HR teams prefer the consistency and centralised control offered by allencompassing end-to-end HR management systems. This category recognises systems that are especially focused on delivering superior performance for clients with a workforce size greater than 1,000.

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong’s human capital management SaaS platform focuses on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. Working with large enterprises across the emerging economies of Asia Pacific, PeopleStrong believes in empowering employees with a mobile-first, AI and ML-powered talent operating system. Its tech capabilities span across the employee life cycle, including human capital management, payroll, talent acquisition and management, and collaboration.

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

QuickHR by Enable Business is a holistic cloudbased HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. Every part is designed with security, stability, and ease-of-use in mind. Providing a seamless interconnected system, QuickHR enables businesses to quickly and efficiently manage their employees’ payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more. It has achieved the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard MTCS SS 584:2020 Level 2.

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BIPO

BIPO’s enterprise-ready HRMS platform automates HR processes, simplifies workflows, and delivers actionable insights to build the best employee experience, complemented by its payroll outsourcing solutions and global PEO (EoR). Headquartered in Singapore, the team supports clients through a global network of more than 30 offices, four R&D centres, and business partners across more than 100 countries.

Website: www.biposervice.com

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INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

Info-Tech Cloud HRMS is designed to help employers and employees to perform at their fullest capacity, boost productivity, and overall employee satisfaction. The HR software is used by all sizes of businesses and industries, providing attendance tracking, time sheets, employee management, payroll, leave, expense, and performance appraisals. In 2017, the team migrated the business to cloud, evolving from being a simple (on-premise) software provider to a cloud-hosted software provider.

MULTIPLIER

Multiplier was born in 2020 to transform the

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BEST HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (SMB)

Winners and finalists of this category are especially focused on delivering superior performances for clients with 100999 employees. These companies have demonstrated how their systems differ from systems that focus on enterprise clients (1000-plus employees) in terms of the functionality and features.

OPENSOFTHR

OpensoftHR is a comprehensive HRMS designed to facilitate day-to-day HR transactions, collect relevant HR data effectively, and solve problems such as oversight on regulatory updates and time-consuming manual data entry. Comprising payroll, leave, claims, scheduling, attendance, and appraisal management modules, OpensoftHR is wellequipped with applications that cover key HR operations, along with built-in employee selfservice and system administrator functions.

BIPO

BIPO’s enterprise-ready HRMS platform automates HR processes, simplifies workflows, and delivers actionable insights to build the best employee experience, complemented by its payroll outsourcing solutions and global PEO (EoR). Established in 2004, and headquartered in Singapore, this silver winner supports clients through a global network of more than 30 offices, four R&D centres, and business partners across more than 100 countries. Singapore is also home to BIPO’s Global Innovation Hub powered by data scientists, business analysts, and RPA developers.

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

QuickHR by Enable Business is a cloudbased HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. Every part is designed with security, stability, and easeof-use in mind, enabling businesses to quickly and efficiently manage payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more. QuickHR is ISO 27001:2013-certified, and has also achieved the highest level of cloud security certification –the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard MTCS SS 584:2020 Level 2.

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INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

Info-Tech Cloud HR Software allows HR professionals and employees to align HR processes and manage them on one single platform consisting of time attendance, payroll, leave, expense claims management, as well as performance appraisal and project costing. The software is used by all sizes of businesses and industries, and has been designed to help employers and employees to perform at their fullest capacity, boost productivity, and overall employee satisfaction.

MULTIPLIER

Since its inception, Multiplier has prided itself on paving the way for a democratised global workforce – breaking down borders and barriers that exist between companies and global talent pools. Having established more than 150 entities and partnerships worldwide, it allows customers to tap into its business infrastructure using its cloud-based SaaS platform which assists multinational businesses with managing global employment, payroll, cross-border payments, freelancers, and contractors.

Website: www.info-tech.com.sg Email: sales@info-tech.com.sg

Website: https://www.usemultiplier.com/ Email: emily.dunlop@usemultiplier.com

BEST INNOVATION FOR HR

Companies in this category have developed and/or applied the best innovations, ranging from emerging tech, to a breakthrough in work practices, culture, or employee engagement, to help HR teams navigate the disruptions and changes of recent times.

9 YARDS INNOVATION

9 Yards Innovation combines psychology and data science to create tech solutions that help companies reimagine experiences and unlock potential. The team has worked with companies from a range of industries, including consulting, information technology, financial services, digital services, and more. It has led award-winning projects in markets such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

FASTCO GROUP

FastCo is the company behind FastJobs and FastGig. In 2022, FastCo officially launched its flexi-work platform FastGig, targeted at jobseekers searching for flexible work opportunities beyond conventional part-time or full-time employment. FastCo strives to continuously support business success and enable everyone to participate meaningfully in the global economy through better access to job opportunities.

THE TALENT GAMES

The Talent Games gamifies and digitises HR recruitment processes to help organisations attract, engage, shortlist, and hire top Millennial and Generation Z candidates. Its virtual hiring solutions include customised gamified assessments (recruitment games), C-factor standard game (ready-to-play platform), social media employer branding, virtual assessment centres, and end-toend virtual recruitment (all-in-one solution).

CIELO

Cielo is a talent acquisition partner that takes pride in delivering a better talent experience for everyone through recruitment process outsourcing, executive search, contingent workforce solutions, and consulting services. With experienced and trained employees serving clients across 113 countries in 39 languages, the team’s unified global footprint enables it to offer region-specific solutions.

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Website: www.thetalentgames.com Email: daniyal@thetalentgames.com

Website: https://www.cielotalent.com/ Email: marketing@cielotalent.com

LINKS INTERNATIONAL

Links International specialises in delivering 100% in-country payroll services and tech. The group is committed to providing clients with smart HR solutions to help their business run more efficiently. Its solutions cover all aspects of HR operations, including payroll outsourcing, visa application, PEO/EoR secondment, recruitment, employee assistance programmes, and outplacement services.

PEOPLESTRONG

PeopleStrong’s tech capabilities span across the employee life cycle from hire to exit, including human capital management, payroll, talent acquisition and management, and collaboration. PeopleStrong is rated among the top five in APAC at Gartner Peer Insights, and was voted as the Customers’ Choice of HR Tech in the Gartner Voice of the Customer report for enterprises across employee ranges.

RESOURCE SOLUTIONS

Resource Solutions (wholly owned by the Robert Walters Group) provides RPO, MSP, and consultancy services. Its consultancy practice comprises practice leads who individually own specialisms, (including, but not limited to) diverse hiring, digital transformation, data and intelligence, and brand and experience, to tackle one of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing HR today – inclusivity.

Website: https://linksinternational.com/ Email: frontdesk@linksinternational.com maureen.hsieh@linksinternational.com

Website: www.peoplestrong.com Email: mel.thomas@peoplestrong.com

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From a functional lead to a business unit head, all the way to the C-suite, leaders who come from within the company are much more likely to succeed than if they are recruited externally. The winners of this award are the consultancies which best help their clients consistently develop the next generation of leaders.

PEOPLE POTENTIAL

People Potential is a Kuala Lumpur-based L&D firm which has had a presence in Singapore for nearly 20 years, and licensees across Europe and Asia. Over several decades, it has worked with multinational corporations in 22 countries across five continents. Emulating how large law firms develop specialists, the firm set up the following five practice areas: behaviour change systems, business presentations, instructional design, leadership development, and virtual learning.

SCOTWORK ASIA

Scotwork has coached leaders all over the world in 29 languages, operating in 120 countries with 46 offices. The team has been working with organisations large and small across all industry sectors. Scotwork’s emphasis is on leading through control and confidence, by the simple application of industry leading process and skills development programmes via face-to-face leadership development sessions, and more recently, via virtual programmes without compromise.

GP STRATEGIES

GP Strategies is a global workforce transformation partner helping companies achieve superior business and operating results, while transforming them into more agile and efficient organisations. Its custom learning solutions support every level of an organisation – from the C-suite to the front line. These solutions include business consulting and organisational development, leadership development, managed learning services, digital learning strategies, and enterprise technology implementation and adoption.

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BEST MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROVIDERS

Great management training providers are able to holistically train, groom, and engage managers to build essential capabilities and skill sets needed to effectively run teams. The winners of this award achieved this for their clients on a consistent basis while successfully achieving business goals.

IMAGEWORKS

Imageworks is a training, coaching, and consultancy partner that believes in inspiring and equipping people to live out a brand identity for personal empowerment and corporate excellence. Its products and services revolve around the ABCs of appearance, behaviour, and communication. Through its personal branding, professional image, business etiquette, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, networking, interpersonal communication, customer experience management, and service excellence programmes, it has helped its clients achieve greater presence, confidence, influence, and results.

PEOPLE POTENTIAL

People Potential is a Kuala Lumpur-based L&D firm, which has been present in Singapore for nearly 20 years. Over several decades, it has worked with multinational corporations in 22 countries spread across five continents, with a mission to develop specialists who will elevate L&D. Emulating how large law firms develop specialists, the firm set up the following five practice areas: behaviour change systems, business presentations, instructional design, leadership development, and virtual learning. Clients engage People Potential for customised essential skills that impact their people.

DD CONSULTING

How can you prepare your managers for the future when it is an unknown? It’s complicated, the team at Dialogue Dynamics (DD Consulting) acknowledges. But it believes the reality is that high potential managers are often the catalyst that drives organisation change. So how can leaders stay resilient and be cognitively flexible and get work done? The team’s FIREFLY framework, which has been running for 19 years, and was updated in 2021 to incorporate collaborative tools and an agile mindset, aims to address this.

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BEST MID-MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT FIRMS

The Best Mid-Management Recruitment Firm category is dedicated to recruitment firms that scour the landscape to find mid-level talent for their clients, be it in the form of specialised individual contributors, team leaders, or managers.

ALLIED SEARCH

The team at Allied Search strongly believes in the importance of every role and position within a business function, from assistant to management personnel. With a team of experienced and skilled consultants, Allied Search provides services at the intersection of people and networks to deliver value to clients in a challenging landscape of talent acquisition within a stipulated time frame. This gold winner’s approach is driven by a focus on aptitude, learning, and leading.

GATEWAY SEARCH

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm that was established in June 2018, with a team of specialists who provide market insights, advice, and solutions, to match clients’ needs across Asia. It offers a suite of HR recruitment services such as executive search, customised interim solutions, customised recruitment process outsourcing, talent resourcing, and market intelligence services.

SALT TALENT SEARCH

Salt Talent Search is a global recruitment agency established in 2003, specialising in the digital landscape. The firm sees digital recruitment as ‘working with businesses through digital disruption, innovation, transformation, and business change’. Its team helps clients find specialist digital mid-management level talent, be it those who are leading teams or those who are individual contributors. Its presence covers Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Dubai, and more.

CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SINGAPORE

Cornerstone Global Partners Group is a recruitment solutions and HR technology platform delivering executive search, contracting, recruitment process outsourcing, and HR outsourcing services to multinational and domestic firms. Since its establishment in 2012, it has delivered its services to a range of industries and clients, and won awards, including Best Recruitment Firm at a previous HR Vendors of the Year awards for its proprietary AI-enabled O2O recruitment platform.

INTELLECT MINDS

Intellect Minds is an IT consulting company which has been in Singapore since 2008, supporting larger organisations in technology hiring With a team of dedicated professionals, its consultants come with specialised skills and experiences in helping organisations in their digital transformation journeys. The company brings with it a sturdy decade-long experience, and an active presence in Singapore and Malaysia, serving niche clientele, including leading multinationals and popular enterprises.

Website: https://www.cgpo2o.sg/ Email: enquiriessg@cgptalent.com

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The organisations making the cut in this category offered the best mobility support during the pandemic. These winners have helped in cultural adaptation, immigration administration, tax issues, and general legal/ financial/statutory advice, and assisted their clients in making major transitions for local employees to work from home during the heightened safe management measures.

CARTUS

Cartus Corporation delivers the full spectrum of corporate relocation services to organisations of all sizes across the world. These include Fortune 100 companies as well as hundreds of clients with small-to-mid-size programmes serviced through its Cartus Insignia SM segment. Over the past 67 years, with offices and team members around the globe, Cartus has helped millions of employees and their families find their way to new homes, new communities, and new experiences in 190 countries.

CROWN WORLDWIDE

Crown World Mobility provides strategic assignment management, immigration, and relocation services to multinationals and international organisations. It works with all stakeholders to make it simpler to move individuals, teams, and entire businesses anywhere in the world, so they can get on with what they do best – take opportunities and grow. This often means finding a unique, technologyenabled solution that Crown believes it has the experience and capability to deliver.

SANTA FE RELOCATION

Santa Fe Relocation is a global mobility company specialising in managing and delivering high-quality relocation services worldwide. Its core competence is providing services that help corporations and their employees as well as individuals and their families to relocate and settle in new places. The team covers the entire relocation journey, from moving, destination services, immigration, and commercial projects, through to full assignment management solutions. These services are delivered locally and globally.

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A leader in Payroll outsourcing solutions, BoardRoom delivers client-centred services fuelled by innovation to embrace all your payroll needs. Leveraging over 50 years of experience and a deep understanding of payroll regulations across Asia Pacific, our experts execute technology-driven solutions to ensure compliance, efficiency and accuracy every time.

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Payroll was always seen as a traditional back-end function, with very little attention paid to it as long as employees were getting paid - no longer is that the case. Winners and finalists of this category are organisations that deliver bottom-line value for their clients through payroll outsourcing, allowing HR to focus on management and strategic issues.

RAMCO SYSTEMS

With talented employees across 28 offices, Ramco Systems is a global enterprise software provider. It offers HR and global payroll spanning more than 100 countries, as well as ERP, and M&E MRO for aviation. The team places an emphasis on AI and machine learning (ML) in its solutions. The important tenets of the AI/ML-driven solutions include intuitive conversation and voice-based transactions (zero UI), a seamless information flow, and a universal personalisation engine.

Links International’s services cover all aspects of HR operations, offering payroll outsourcing, visa application, outplacement services, and more. It believes in constantly reinventing itself by upgrading its products and introducing new services such as earned wage access, Asia salary benchmarking, flight risks, and SLAs reporting, as well as online visa and tax application features on Links One, its proprietary payroll platform.

INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

Headquartered in Singapore, Info-Tech offers an integrated, cloud-based HRMS which consists of attendance, time sheets, rostering, payroll, leave, expense claims, appraisals, as well as job cost software modules. The team aims to provide greater ease of integrating data from multiple HR functions while also enabling a more flexible, engaged, and resilient business by improving the employee experience across all areas of HR.

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BOARDROOM

BoardRoom specialises in providing accurate, prompt, and reliable corporate solutions ranging from payroll and corporate secretarial services to shareholder support. Ignite, its cloud-based HRMS platform, aims to address two main points for clients: ensuring employees are happy, and alleviating the workload of HR teams.

BoardRoom partners with organisations in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and more.

Website: https://www.boardroomlimited.com/ Email: info.sg@boardroomlimited.com

ENABLE GROUP ASIA

Established in 2013, Enable Consulting is an HR firm that specialises in HRMS and HRIS solutions for enterprises, with a team backed by experience in HR management services. The group believes that having a robust HR management system is pivotal to sustaining growth in any flourishing business. It is with this faith that it has established connections with clients across industries.

Website: https://enablegroupasia.com/ Email: clientservices@enablegroupasia.com

BEST PAYROLL SOFTWARE

A smart payroll package is one that integrates salary, commission, bonus, flexible benefits, tax, leave, expenses, time, and attendance, on a cloud-based platform with multiple layers of security. This category’s winners and finalists have developed the most intuitive and valuable payroll systems that exceed the needs of their clients.

RAMCO SYSTEMS

With talented employees across 28 offices, Ramco Systems is a global enterprise software provider. It offers HR and global payroll spanning more than 100 countries, as well as ERP, and M&E MRO for aviation. The team places an emphasis on AI and machine learning (ML) in its solutions. The tenets of the AI/ML-driven solutions include intuitive conversation and voice-based transactions (zero UI), and a universal personalisation engine.

THE ACCESS GROUP

Founded in 1991, The Access Group (Access) is a UK-headquartered provider of business management software; with a team across nine countries. In June 2021, Access acquired Sage Group’s Asia and Australia businesses, expanding its footprint in Asia Pacific. Included in the acquisition is EasyPay, a payroll software that includes time attendance and leave, and expense management, as well as provides remote access.

BIPO

QuickHR by Enable Business is a holistic cloudbased HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. The platform aims to enable businesses to quickly and efficiently manage their employees' payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more. QuickHR is ISO 27001:2013 certified, and has achieved the highest level of cloud security certification – the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard MTCS SS 584:2020 Level 2.

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm that was established in June 2018, offering a suite of HR recruitment services such as executive search, customised interim solutions, customised RPO, talent resourcing, and market intelligence services. It has also expanded its services by taking on volume recruitment to adapt to current market demands.

Website: www.ramco.com Email: contact@ramco.com | sunil.narang@ramco. com | ayushi.aggarwal@ramco.com

Website: theaccessgroup.com/en-sg/products/easypay/ Email: laurent.leong@theaccessgroup.com

Website: www.biposervice.com Email: hello@biposervice.com

Website: www.quickhr.co Email: business@quickhr.co

INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

Info-Tech’s payroll software is recognised by IRAS, and has fulfilled the requirements for the Auto Inclusion Scheme. Its mobile application allows employees to access and update their personal data, view leave records, expense claims, and their pay slips. The software covers salary calculations and statutory contributions, as well as helps ensure payroll costs are accounted for.

OPENSOFTHR

Opensoft Payroll is a cloud-based payroll software that has been specifically designed for local SMEs. It is priced affordably for any business to start off, yet remains inexpensive to scale-up or suit the needs of a business’ expansion. Opensoft Payroll is 100% compliant with IRAS, CPF, Bank GIRO, and MOM, as well as with all the relevant statutory agencies’ requirements for auto submission.

SWINGVY

Swingvy Payroll is built for SMEs looking to simplify payment processing. By integrating payroll directly into Swingvy’s cloud-based HRMS, and syncing employee data between modules, businesses can remove paper processes, streamline onboarding, and store all of their people data in one place. Swingvy’s goal is to provide its customers with the ability to run basic payroll in 90 seconds with a seamless payroll experience.

Website: www.info-tech.com.sg Email: sales@info-tech.com.sg

Website: www.opensofthr.com Email: sales@opensofthr.com

Website: www.swingvy.com Email: marketing@swingvy.com

This category recognises the best new recruitment firms that have been in the business for not more than five years, but have managed to deliver exemplary value and quantifiable results that have continuously impressed their prospective and existing clients.

ALLIED SEARCH

Allied Search was founded in August 2019, specialising in the healthcare industry across all functions, providing permanent placements, temp & contract/locum, and payroll services. The team strongly believes in the importance of every role and position within a business function, from assistant to management personnel. Its experienced and skilled consultants works to deliver value to clients in a challenging landscape of talent acquisition, within a stipulated time frame, driven by its pride in aptitude, learning, and leading. Website:

GATEWAY SEARCH

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm, established in June 2018. Its HR recruitment services include executive search, customised interim solutions, customised RPO, talent resourcing, and market intelligence services. The firm provides a crossindustry specialisation model with a qualified team of consultants coming from diversified backgrounds & cultures, and a database of highly skilled talents built on successful partnerships and referrals. Website:

RK RECRUITMENT

RK Recruitment's clients are advantaged by immediate and effective solutions for a full spectrum of needs, as they are provided with competent workers. The RK Recruitment team handle partial or full recruitment operations, minimising hiring costs and business losses crucial during economic difficulties. RK Recruitment’s vision is to create appropriate and flexible recruitment solutions that enable its partners to cope with the ever-changing market’s HR demands.

CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH

Cultivar Asia is a Singapore-based, regional staffing and search firm, focusing on executive search and specialist staffing. Cultivar taps on the country’s thriving key industries and robust infrastructure to achieve a stable and strong regional talent pool, with a team of experienced personnel in specialist functions, including IT, accounting and finance, and corporate support. Combing its consultants’ experiences, the clients benefit from a set of unparalleled deliverables.

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ELITEZ & ASSOCIATES

Elitez & Associates is a human resource solutions provider established in 2020 to address the growing demands from clients for staffing & search services, manpower & payroll outsourcing, and outsourced manpower management solutions. With the future-forward 3T (namely, talent, training, technology) framework in place, the team is well poised to create exciting opportunities for its clients and job seekers across the region.

Website: https://www.elitezassociates.asia/ Email: info@elitez.com.sg

BEST PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING PROVIDERS

Psychometric testing is used by companies to ensure that shortlists are free of people whose personalities do not gel with the organisation. These winners and finalist help to match the candidate with the employer’s culture and environment.

WINNERS GOLD THE TALENT GAMES SILVER MERCER BRONZE SHL

FINALIST HUMANOSTICS

THE TALENT GAMES

The Talent Games gamifies and digitises HR recruitment processes to help organisations attract, engage, shortlist, and hire top Millennial and Gen Z candidates. Its virtual hiring solutions include customised gamified assessments (recruitment games), C-factor standard game (ready-to-play platform), social media employer branding, virtual assessment centres, and end-to-end virtual recruitment (all-in-one solution).

MERCER

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and wellbeing. For 75 years, it has been providing trusted advice and solutions to build healthier and more sustainable futures for its clients, colleagues, and communities. Mercer’s team of specialists works across 43 countries, while the firm operates in 130 countries.

SHL

With 45 years of talent expertise, SHL, a global leader in HR technology and psychometric science, transforms businesses by leveraging the power of people, science, and technology. The team equips recruiters and leaders with people insights at an organisation, team, and individual level, accelerating growth, decision making, talent mobility, and inspiring an inclusive culture.

HUMANOSTICS

Humanostics is a management consulting company founded in Denmark in 2009. It entered Singapore in 2017, which has since become the regional head office for the Asia region. The group works with clients to optimise processes around the pillars of design, hire, inspire, and diagnose, by evaluating and measuring the potential, and competencies, of candidates, employees, managers, and the salesforce.

Website: www.thetalentgames.com Email: daniyal@thetalentgames.com

Website: www.mercer.com.sg Email: mimi.wong@mercer.com

Website: www.shl.com Email: grace.wang@shl.com

Website: www.humanostics.com Email: mol@humanostics.com

BEST RECRUITMENT PORTALS

Career websites fulfil one of the most basic needs HR professionals have –finding candidates. While all recruitment websites have their strengths and weaknesses, the winners of the Best Recruitment Portal award are those which tick the most boxes on the HR professional’s wish list – active candidates, design, user experience, quality of candidates, response, price, and more.

FASTCO GROUP

FastCo is the company behind FastJobs and FastGig. Launched in April 2015, FastJobs is a recruitment app available in Singapore, Malaysia, and Philippines for the manual, service, and semi-skilled job segments. Through innovative solutions and services, FastJobs enables greater accessibility to jobs for its registered users. At the same time, employers using the platform are provided ease of access to a large manpower pool. In 2022, FastCo launched its flexi-work platform, FastGig, targeted at jobseekers searching for flexible work opportunities.

WINNERS

Website: www.fastjobs.sg Email: customercare@fastjobs.sg

CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SINGAPORE

CGP Group is one of the largest recruitment solutions and HR technology platforms with 17 offices worldwide and several dedicated team members delivering executive search, contracting, recruitment process outsourcing, and human resources outsourcing services, to multinational and domestic firms. Since its establishment in 2012, the group has delivered its HR services to a wide range of industries and clients. CGP Group has also won multiple awards, including Best Recruitment Firm and Best Innovation in Recruitment, as a result of the development of its proprietary AI-enabled O2O recruitment platform.

GATEWAY SEARCH

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm that was established in June 2018. The company offers a suite of HR recruitment services such as executive search, customised interim solutions, customised recruitment process outsourcing, talent resourcing, and a market intelligence service. It provides a cross-industry specialisation model with a team of consultants from diversified backgrounds and cultures, as well as valuable market insights and constructive advice and solutions to match its clients’ needs spanning across Asia.

Website: https://www.cgpo2o.sg/ Email: enquiriessg@cgptalent.com

Website: https://www.gateway-search.com/ Email: admin@gateway-search.com

Resourcing and administrative procedures of contract and permanent recruitment require time, effort, and HR resources. This dilutes HR teams’ efforts which could be put to more valuable use if allocated to more strategic HR management issues. These winners and finalists take the administrative recruitment work off their clients’ hands while performing the required job at top quality.

RESOURCE SOLUTIONS

Resource Solutions is an international RPO and consulting firm with more than 24 years of experience, recruiting in over 50 countries across the globe, and deploying tailored outsourced recruitment solutions for a range of clients worldwide. For recruitment process outsourcing, its APAC-specific solutions include end-to-end RPO, project RPO, resource augmentation, managed service provision, statement of work management, and total talent hiring solutions. Resource Solutions is wholly owned by Robert Walters.

CIELO

Cielo delivers RPO, executive search, contingent workforce solutions, and consulting services. Aiming to provide each client with customised solutions to address their needs, the team designs and builds comprehensive, proven technology solutions to find and keep the unique talent that elevates its clients above the competition. With employees serving clients across 113 markets in 39 languages, its unified global footprint enables it to offer regionalspecific solutions.

KELLYOCG

KellyOCG connects companies with the talented people they need to fuel and grow their businesses through leading workforce solutions, including managed service provider solutions and RPO. It acts as an extension of a client organisation’s HR recruitment function through understanding organisations’ business ambitions, formulating the talent strategy, and customising an approach to secure the right talent at the right time. It strives to be the most creative, insightful, and agile company committed to uniting vital talent with great organisations.

ARYAN SOLUTIONS

Aryan Solutions specialises in providing IT consulting, technology services, staffing, managed services, and search to local, and multinational companies, within APAC, SEA, India, and Australia, across industries, including financial services, hedge funds, asset management, telecommunications, and more. Headquartered in Singapore, the company has consultants across the region.

BOYD & MOORE EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Boyd & Moore Executive Search provides talent and leadership solutions to multinational businesses looking to enter, scale, or repair their businesses in APAC. It focuses on executive-level and mission-critical hires, while also offering solutions for executive search, RPO, market-entry services, market mapping, employer branding, interim talent solutions, and more.

ENABLE GROUP ASIA

Established in 2013, Enable Consulting is an HR firm that specialises in HRMS and HRIS solutions for enterprises. Its consultants comprise highly trained professionals backed with experience in HR management services. The group believes that having a robust HR management system is pivotal to sustaining growth in any flourishing business. Due to this faith, it has established connections with clients across industries.

Website: https://www.aryan-solutions.com/ Email: Vikram@aryan-solutions.com

Website: www.bmes.com Email: jonas@bmes.com

Website: https://enablegroupasia.com/ Email: clientservices@enablegroupasia.com

This category recognises those who have pivoted their business to provide support and solutions to problems directly related to the impact of the global pandemic. These companies’ offerings have helped get their clients through difficult and challenging times.

MERCER

Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and wellbeing. For 75 years, it has been providing trusted advice and solutions to build healthier and more sustainable futures for its clients, colleagues, and communities across 130 markets. In Singapore, supported by a capable and passionate workforce, the group has been operating for nearly 44 years.

Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based Prudential plc, is a life insurance company providing protection, savings, and investmentlinked plans. The firm has been serving in Singapore for 91 years, delivering a suite of product offerings and professional advisory through its network of financial consultants and bank partners. Its corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise clients benefit from its specialised enterprise business solutions.

PEOPLE POTENTIAL

People Potential is a Kuala Lumpur-based L&D firm, which has been operating in Singapore for nearly 20 years. Over several decades, it has worked with multinational corporations in 22 countries spread across five continents. Emulating how large law firms develop specialists, the firm set up the following five practice areas: behaviour change systems, business presentations, instructional design, leadership development, and virtual learning.

ARYAN SOLUTIONS

Aryan Solutions specialises in providing IT consulting, technology services, staffing, managed services, and search to local, and multinational companies, within APAC, SEA, India, and Australia, across different industries, including financial services, hedge funds, asset management, and telecommunications. Headquartered in Singapore, the company has consultants across the region covering Singapore, the US, UK, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Website: https://www.aryan-solutions.com/ Email: Vikram@aryan-solutions.com

CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH

Cultivar Asia is a Singapore-based, regional staffing and search firm, focusing on executive search and specialist staffing. Cultivar taps on the country’s thriving key industries and robust infrastructure to achieve a stable and strong regional talent pool. Its team in Singapore consists of several experienced personnel within their respective specialist functions, such as IT and technology, accounting and finance, and corporate support functions.

Website: www.cultivar.asia

Email: info@cultivar.asia

SCOTWORK ASIA

Scotwork Asia has coached hundreds and thousands of senior managers all over the world in 29 languages, through operations in 120 countries with 46 offices. It works with organisations large and small across all industry sectors. After more than 45 years globally (and more than 25 years in Asia), the organisation continues to set best practices – giving people powerful skills that transform their lives and their futures.

Website: www.scotwork.sg

Email: info.sg@scotwork.com

Sales professionals are crucial to an organisation. Winners of this category help their clients to consistently exceed their targets and drive the revenue performance of their companies through the grooming of high performing sales professionals.

IMAGEWORKS

Established in 1995, Imageworks is a training, coaching, and consultancy partner that inspires and equips people to live out a brand identity for personal empowerment and corporate excellence. Its products and services revolve around the ABCs of appearance, behaviour, and communication. Through its personal branding, professional image, business etiquette, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, networking, interpersonal communication, customer experience management, and service excellence programmes, it has added the polish in people to help them achieve a greater presence, confidence, influence, and results.

SOCO SALES TRAINING

SOCO/ Sales Training is a sales optimisation company that helps build high-performance sales teams in organisations across Asia and around the world through a modern approach to learning. Its motto is that no salesperson should lose a sale because they can’t sell. Instead, the team believes they need the support to develop the relevant skills and techniques to maximise sales results. Its suite of sales, negotiation, management, and coaching programmes, imparts best practices gleaned from more than 20 years of experience in the field.

SCOTWORK ASIA

Scotwork has coached hundreds of thousands of senior managers all over the world in 29 languages. Seeing as how the team has continued to deliver proven transformation and ROI consistently, it has grown into a top-performing independent negotiation consultancy, operating in 120 countries with 46 offices. It works with organisations large and small across all industry sectors. After more than 45 years globally, it takes pride in continuing to set best practices –giving people powerful skills that transform their lives and their futures.

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Website: www.scotwork.sg Email: info.sg@scotwork.com

BEST SERVICED APARTMENTS / CORPORATE STAY PROVIDERS

Winners in this category are serviced apartments, corporate stay organisers, or hotel operators, that provide selfcontained, short or long-term living arrangements with facilities such as kitchenettes/kitchens, television sets, Wi-Fi internet access; and support services such as concierge, housekeeping, 24-hour security, and laundry, among others.

PAN PACIFIC SERVICED SUITES ORCHARD

Pan Pacific Serviced Suites Orchard offers 126 one and two-bedroom serviced suites and penthouses. The sizes of its apartments and penthouses range from 49 sqm to 157 sqm. The property is conveniently located next to Somerset MRT station in Singapore, a 10-minute drive to the central business district, and a 22-minute drive from Changi International Airport. Nearby attractions include the Istana, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Fort Canning Park, and National Museum.

Website: https://www.panpacific.com/en/servicedsuites/pp-ss-orchard.html

Email: enquiry.ppssin@panpacific.com

GREAT WORLD SERVICED APARTMENTS

Located just 10 minutes away from the central business district and Orchard Road, Great World Serviced Apartments offers hundreds of fully furnished apartments with a wide range of accommodation options for singles, couples, and families with kids as well as pets. Situated along Singapore’s Zion Road, right next door to the Great World shopping mall and office tower, everything you need is just a stone’s throw away.

Website: www.stay.greatworld.com.sg

Email: apartments@greatworld.com.sg

PARKROYAL SERVICED SUITES SINGAPORE

PARKROYAL Serviced Suites Singapore is a pet-friendly mixed development of 90-unit serviced apartments with 55 one-bedroom and 35 two-bedroom suites located at The Plaza, Beach Road from the 18 th to 22 nd floor. It is situated near two MRT stations – Bugis and Nicoll Highway, a 10-minute drive to the central business district, and a 20-minute drive to Changi International Airport, and Changi Business Park.

Website: https://www.panpacific.com/en/servicedsuites/pr-ss-singapore.html

Email: enquiry.prssin@parkroyalhotels.com

The top staffing firms supply their clients with high calibre entry-level, clerical, and junior talent, in temporary and permanent positions across industries. The winners and finalists of this award are able to provide their clients with the right talent for their short and long-term staffing needs.

ALLIED SEARCH

The team at Allied Search strongly believes in the importance of every role and position within a business function, from assistant to management personnel. This team of experienced and skilled consultants works to deliver value to clients in a challenging landscape of talent acquisition, within a stipulated time frame, driven by its pride in aptitude, learning, and leading. This helps Allied Search ensure that human capital remains the biggest asset in order for all its clients to excel. Website:

ARYAN SOLUTIONS

Aryan Solutions provides IT consulting, technology services, staffing, managed services, and search to local and multinational companies within APAC, SEA, and India. These clients’ industries include financial services, government, manufacturing, and more. Aryan Solutions is headquartered in Singapore with offices in KL (Malaysia), and Lucknow (India), and has a team covering the US, UK, Hong Kong, and Australian markets. Website:

RECRUIT INC

Recruit Inc provides an array of professional talent search services and hiring solutions to clients across all business sectors, with a special focus on the healthcare, and sports and wellness sectors. Its three strategic business services cover new placements or replacements in positions; provision of current HR domain expertise and a dedicated service to support clients; and mass recruitment for various roles.

CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH

Cultivar Asia is a Singapore-based, regional staffing and search firm, focusing on executive search and specialist staffing. Cultivar taps on the country’s thriving key industries and robust infrastructure to achieve a stable and strong regional talent pool, with a team of experienced personnel in specialist functions, including IT, accounting and finance, and corporate support. Cultivar Asia's core belief is that businesses will prosper and grow only with the right people in place.

INTELLECT MINDS

Website: www.cultivar.asia Email:

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Teams that work together with genuine team spirit are the teams which perform the best and deliver the most value to their companies. Winners of this category help transform groups of employees into high-performing teams who work hard for each other, communicate effectively, and achieve fantastic results.

WINNERS

GRINESS

Griness specialises in corporate team building and games-based training. The team is on a mission to create serious results using playful strategies. Since 2006, it has established a reputation as a reliable training partner that listens to customers and co-creates engaging learning experiences. Among its long-term clients are those in the industries of oil and gas, technology, industrial development, professional services, higher education, and more. The team has a portfolio available of over 30 original activities in online, in-person, or hybrid formats.

RIGHT IMPACT

Right Impact is a Singapore-based people development consultancy, which designs and delivers quality HR development programmes and solutions to organisations around the world. Together with its partners in Malaysia, India, and Romania, it brings forth experiential programmes to improve productivity through people. It also offers an integrated tech solution – Ripple by Right Impact – that improves employee engagement, employee wellness, remote leadership, and more.

PEOPLE POTENTIAL

People Potential is a Kuala Lumpur-based L&D firm, which has been operating in Singapore for nearly 20 years. Over the decades, it has worked with multinationals in 22 countries, with a mission to develop specialists who will elevate L&D. Emulating how large law firms develop specialists, the firm set up the following five practice areas: behaviour change systems, business presentations, instructional design, leadership development, and virtual learning.

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Website: www.right-impact.com Email: connect@rightimpact.com

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LOCAL HEROES

The winners and finalist of this new category are businesses founded in Singapore, that are currently independent. This means they have no parent company, no public shareholders, and are not part of an international network, unless the network is also comprised of fully independent organisations.

ASLANT LEGAL

Aslant Legal is a legal specialist executive search firm. The specialism of its consultants, combined with an industry background and an established network of contacts, uniquely positions the team to deliver high quality candidates and bespoke solutions to its clients.

Website: https://aslantlegal.com/ Email: marketing@aslantlegal.com

FASTCO GROUP

FastCo is the company behind FastJobs and FastGig. Launched in 2015, FastJobs is a recruitment app available in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It is designed for the manual, service, and semi-skilled job segments, providing employers ease of access to a larger manpower pool. FastGig, a flexi-work platform launched in 2022, allows jobseekers to look up flexible work opportunities beyond part-time or full-time employment.

GATEWAY SEARCH

Gateway Search is a Singapore start-up and a regional executive search firm that was established in 2018. Its team of specialists provides market insights, advice, and solutions to match clients’ needs across Asia. It offers a suite of HR recruitment services such as executive search, customised interim solutions, customised recruitment process outsourcing, talent resourcing, and market intelligence services.

ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

QuickHR by Enable Business is a holistic cloudbased HRMS built to eliminate problems that plague traditional HR platforms. It aims to enable businesses to quickly and efficiently manage their employees’ payroll, leave, claims, attendance, scheduling, and more. It has achieved the highest level of cloud security certification – the Multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard MTCS SS 584:2020 Level 2.

Website: www.fastjobs.sg Email: customercare@fastjobs.sg

Website: https://www.gateway-search.com/ Email: admin@gateway-search.com

Website: www.quickhr.co Email: business@quickhr.co

LEADER OF THE YEAR

This brand new Leader of the Year category recognises the most effective and capable stewards of HR partner and solution provider outfits.

WINNERS

DERRICK TEO (ELITEZ GROUP OF COMPANIES)

Derrick Teo co-founded Elitez in 2010 and has been the CEO ever since. Dynamic and driven, he has led Elitez to achieve and keep a definitive leadership position in the fast moving consumer goods retail marketing industry since 2013. With his great foresight, the company continues to diversify its portfolio with human resource-related solutions to suit the ever-changing HR industry.

SHULIN LEE (ASLANT LEGAL)

Shulin Lee is recognised as a leading career strategist in the legal world. In 2016, she founded Aslant Legal to service companies across industries looking to hire in the legal sector, embracing the opportunity to lead a homegrown firm with an open culture. She believes it is this strong culture that propels the firm to consistently outperform its competitors.

DR DORCAS TAN (RECRUIT INC)

Dr Dorcas Tan started Recruit Inc with a dream of making it one of the best boutique recruiting agencies in Singapore. Often, she plodded with small incremental steps, but has worked towards an upward trajectory from there. As a leader, she has learnt never to rest on her laurels and continues with the same zest for service to her clients as if it was day one.

TERRY NETTO (PEOPLE POTENTIAL)

Terry Netto, and his wife Marianne Vincent, envision HR to be a people-centred profession. In driving this, he has conceptualised initiatives such as recruitment for talent and culture fit, technical ladders, and more. Among the career lessons he has learnt, he believes we should develop a solid mindfulness practice to remain clear minded in all situations – and that all of us can transform, even through a crisis.

FINALIST TERRY NETTO (PEOPLE POTENTIAL)

Website: https://www.elitez.asia/ Email: info@elitez.com.sg

Website: https://aslantlegal.com/ Email: marketing@aslantlegal.com

Website: www.recruit-inc.com Email: hr@recruit-inc.com

Website: https://www. peoplepotential.com/

Email: info@peoplepotential.com

GOLD DERRICK TEO (ELITEZ GROUP OF COMPANIES) SILVER SHULIN LEE (ASLANT LEGAL) BRONZE DR DORCAS TAN (RECRUIT INC)