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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

Website: https://www.resourcesolutions.com/ Email: info@resourcesolutions.com

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BEST LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY

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.

WINNERS GOLD PEOPLE POTENTIAL SILVER SCOTWORK ASIA BRONZE GP STRATEGIES

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. Website:

https://www.peoplepotential.com/

Email:

info@peoplepotential.com

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

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. Website:

www.gpstrategies.com

Email:

zchan2@gpstrategies.com

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.

WINNERS GOLD IMAGEWORKS SILVER PEOPLE POTENTIAL BRONZE DD CONSULTING

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. Website:

imageworks.sg

Email:

info@imageworks.sg

Website: https://www.peoplepotential.com/ Email: info@peoplepotential.com

Website: ddynamics.net Email: solutions@ddynamics.net

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.

WINNERS GOLD ALLIED SEARCH SILVER GATEWAY SEARCH BRONZE SALT TALENT SEARCH

FINALISTS CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SINGAPORE INTELLECT MINDS

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. Website:

www.alliedsearch.com.sg

Email:

enquiry@alliedsearch.com.sg

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. Website:

https://www.gateway-search.com/

Email:

admin@gateway-search.com

Website: www.welovesalt.com Email: pbennett@welovesalt.com

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. Website:

https://www.cgpo2o.sg/

Email:

enquiriessg@cgptalent.com

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:

www.intellect-minds.com

Email:

info@intellect-minds.com

We are a leading recruitment firm focusing in the context of talent acquisition. Human capital is the biggest asset that every company need to excel in all businesses

We provide services at the intersection of people and network to deliver value to our clients in this challenging landscape of talent acquisition within a stipulated timeframe

BEST MOBILITY & ORIENTATION CONSULTANCIES

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.

WINNERS GOLD CARTUS SILVER CROWN WORLDWIDE BRONZE SANTA FE RELOCATION

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 InsigniaSM 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. Website:

www.cartus.com

Email:

cartussolutions@cartus.com

Website: www.crownworldmobility.com Email: Singapore@crownworldmobility.com

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. Website:

www.santaferelo.com

Email:

Singapore@santaferelo.com

BEST PAYROLL OUTSOURCING PARTNERS

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.

WINNERS GOLD RAMCO SYSTEMS SILVER LINKS INTERNATIONAL BRONZE INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

FINALISTS BOARDROOM ENABLE GROUP ASIA

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. Website:

www.ramco.com

Email:

contact@ramco.com | sunil.narang@ramco.com ayushi.aggarwal@ramco.com

LINKS INTERNATIONAL

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. Website:

https://linksinternational.com/

Email:

frontdesk@linksinternational.com maureen.hsieh@linksinternational.com

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. Website:

www.info-tech.com.sg

Email:

sales@info-tech.com.sg

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.

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://www.boardroomlimited.com/

Email:

info.sg@boardroomlimited.com

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.

WINNERS GOLD RAMCO SYSTEMS SILVER THE ACCESS GROUP BRONZE BIPO

FINALISTS ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR INFO-TECH SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS OPENSOFTHR SWINGVY

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

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BEST NEW RECRUITMENT FIRMS

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.

WINNERS GOLD ALLIED SEARCH SILVER GATEWAY SEARCH BRONZE RK RECRUITMENT

FINALISTS CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH ELITEZ & ASSOCIATES

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.

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.

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. Website:

www.alliedsearch.com.sg

Email:

Enquiry@alliedsearch.com.sg

Website: https://www.gateway-search.com/ Email: TBC

Website: https://www.rkgroup.sg/ Email: rkhr@rkgroupsg.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, 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. Website:

www.cultivar.asia

Email:

info@cultivar.asia

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.

WINNERS GOLD FASTCO GROUP CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SILVER SINGAPORE BRONZE GATEWAY SEARCH

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. 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. Website:

https://www.cgpo2o.sg/

Email:

enquiriessg@cgptalent.com

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.gateway-search.com/

Email:

admin@gateway-search.com

BEST RECRUITMENT PROCESS OUTSOURCING PARTNERS

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.

WINNERS GOLD RESOURCE SOLUTIONS SILVER CIELO BRONZE KELLYOCG

FINALISTS ARYAN SOLUTIONS BOYD & MOORE EXECUTIVE SEARCH ENABLE GROUP ASIA

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. Website:

https://www.resourcesolutions.com/

Email:

info@resourcesolutions.com

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. Website:

https://www.cielotalent.com

Email:

marketing@cielotalent.com

Website: https://www.kellyocg.com/sg/ Email: apacconnect@kellyocg.com

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

BEST RESPONSE TO COVID-19

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.

WINNERS GOLD MERCER PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY SILVER SINGAPORE BRONZE PEOPLE POTENTIAL

FINALISTS ARYAN SOLUTIONS CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH SCOTWORK ASIA

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. Website:

www.mercer.com.sg

Email:

mimi.wong@mercer.com

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY SINGAPORE

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. Website:

www.prudential.com.sg

Email:

SGP.ES.NewBusiness@prudential.com.sg

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. Website:

https://www.peoplepotential.com/

Email:

info@peoplepotential.com

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

BEST SALES TRAINING PROVIDERS

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.

WINNERS GOLD IMAGEWORKS SILVER SOCO SALES TRAINING BRONZE SCOTWORK ASIA

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. Website:

imageworks.sg

Email:

info@imageworks.sg

Website: www.socoselling.com Email: prosper@socoselling.com

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.

WINNERS

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE PAN PACIFIC SERVICED SUITES ORCHARD GREAT WORLD SERVICED APARTMENTS PARKROYAL SERVICED SUITES SINGAPORE

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 18th to 22nd 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

BEST STAFFING FIRMS

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.

WINNERS GOLD ALLIED SEARCH SILVER ARYAN SOLUTIONS BRONZE RECRUIT INC

FINALISTS CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH INTELLECT MINDS

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.

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.

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. Website:

www.alliedsearch.com.sg

Email:

Enquiry@alliedsearch.com.sg

Website: https://www.aryansolutions.com/ Email: Vikram@aryansolutions.com

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

www.cultivar.asia

Email:

info@cultivar.asia

INTELLECT MINDS

IT consulting company Intellect Minds has had a presence in Singapore since 2008, with the aim of serving larger organisations and supporting them with technology hires. With a well-trained team in place, Intellect Minds' consultants have specialised skills and experiences in helping organisations with their digital transformation journey. The company is proud of its decadelong experience in serving niche clientele across Singapore and Malaysia. Website:

www.intellect-minds.com

Email:

info@intellect-minds.com

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BEST TEAM BUILDING PROVIDERS

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 GOLD GRINESS SILVER RIGHT IMPACT BRONZE PEOPLE POTENTIAL

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. Website:

www.griness.com

Email:

sayhello@griness.com

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

Website: https://www.peoplepotential.com/ Email: info@peoplepotential.com

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.

WINNERS GOLD ASLANT LEGAL SILVER FASTCO GROUP BRONZE GATEWAY SEARCH

FINALIST ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR

ASLANT LEGAL

Aslant Legal is a legal specialist executive search firm. Its team of consultants has had successful placements into major international law firms, financial institutions, payment and risk consultancy firms, and multinationals. Understanding clients’ and candidates’ needs is paramount. The team prides itself on having established lasting relationships within specialist talent communities in the niche areas of the legal, risk, and compliance functions.

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:

https://www.ansasearch.com/

Email:

marketing@ansasearch.com

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

FINALIST TERRY NETTO (PEOPLE POTENTIAL)

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. Website:

https://www.elitez.asia/

Email:

info@elitez.com.sg

Website: https://www.ansasearch. com Email: marketing@ansasearch.co

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

Website: https://www. peoplepotential.com/ Email: info@peoplepotential.com

COMPANY

9 YARDS INNOVATION AIA SINGAPORE ALLIED SEARCH ARYAN SOLUTIONS ASLANT LEGAL AYP GROUP BIPO BIPO SERVICE (SINGAPORE) BOARDROOM BOYD & MOORE EXECUTIVE SEARCH CARTUS CIELO CIGNA EUROPE INSURANCE COMPANY - SINGAPORE BRANCH (CIGNA SINGAPORE) CORNERSTONE GLOBAL PARTNERS SINGAPORE CROWN WORLDWIDE CULTIVAR STAFFING & SEARCH D D CONSULTING ELITEZ & ASSOCIATES ELITEZ GROUP OF COMPANIES ENABLE BUSINESS, QUICKHR ENABLE GROUP ASIA FASTCO GROUP FULLERTON HEALTH GATEWAY SEARCH GLOBALIZATION PARTNERS SINGAPORE GP STRATEGIES GREAT WORLD SERVICED APARTMENTS GRINESS HOWDEN INSURANCE BROKERS HUMANOSTICS

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