Ginkgo Search Partners is a boutique retained executive search firm specializing in leadership appointments for international companies in China.
Our executive recruiters know where to find and how to attract exceptional leaders in China with profound knowledge of your specific industry and match the culture of your organization. Identifying and attracting this senior-level talent requires a rigorous approach combined with thorough understanding of various industries and functional roles.
Our executive search consultants are more than headhunters and apply real insight into clients’ strategic requirements and proven assessment tools to recruit leaders who have the necessary skills, professional experience, and personal qualities to advance your company strategies and achieve outstanding results.
Our candidates are carefully selected and in order to attract exceptional managers and senior specialists in China our executive recruiters work to reach the highest professional standards. As a top executive search firm Ginkgo Search Partners follows a code of professional ethics and handles our relationships with clients, candidates, and colleagues with great care.
We serve both national and international companies in a diversity of industries and work in each market segment with only a limited number of clients. This approach ensures the least possible restriction on potential sources and provides our executive recruiters access to a large talent pool.
Ginkgo Search Partners understands executive search as an extension of management consulting, which frequently provides significant benefits beyond executive search including assessing an organization and its culture, integrating a new manager for optimal success, and advising leaders on their career development.
Building on long-term client relationships allows us to better understand your business and talent strategy needs in China and enables us to stay practically focused.
Our primary mission is to provide top quality management for our clients that will bring them lasting and sustainable success for their business and promises long-term and productive partnerships.
Our tailor-made retained executive search services and understanding of the intentions and requirements of our clients are just as important as our intensive and continuous dialogues with our candidates. Ginkgo Search Partners is committed to the highest quality in the selection of our leadership talent in China.
Based on retained executive search assignments completed since 2016.
Insights on executive recruitment, leadership hiring and business trends in China.
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