Recruitment & Search
Recruitment & Executive Search in Singapore
Licensed Employment Agency — EA Licence No. 26C3338
Curated shortlists for your toughest hires — search, onboarding, and compliance, run by the same team.
You’re drowning in applicants who don’t fit
You posted the role three weeks ago. Since then, you’ve accumulated a folder of unread resumes, two agencies sending you the same five candidates, and your shortlist is really just a smaller pile of wrong fits.
You know the hire matters. You don’t have the bandwidth to sort noise from signal, and every week the seat sits empty costs you more than the fee ever would.
That’s not a hiring problem. That’s an agency problem.
Who this is for
With Kinna’s search practice is built for founders and lean HR teams making a critical, specialized, or regional hire without an internal recruitment function to lean on. We are a good fit if:
- You’re hiring for a role where a wrong pick costs you six figures and six months, not just a bad quarter.
- You’ve used agencies before and got volume, not fit.
- You want someone who understands Singapore employment compliance as intimately as the job brief — without managing separate legal or HR vendors.
- You’re hiring across APAC and need one trusted search partner who can work regionally, not a different local recruiter in every market.
If you aren’t sure the job title matches what the business actually needs right now, we help you design the role around what your business actually needs to fix, and hire for the underlying problem, not just the title on paper.
How we search: curated shortlists, zero noise
We don’t send you a stack of resumes and let you do the sorting. We do the heavy lifting before you ever see a profile.
Roles and sectors we cover. We handle mid-to-senior leadership searches across APAC, as well as high-volume frontline placements:
- Corporate Functions: Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement, IT, Design, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Engineering, and General Management.
- Frontline & Operations: Customer Service, Hospitality, and Retail Sales.
- Fractional & Interim Leadership: Specialized mandates for HR and Legal roles.
What makes us different. Most search firms consider their job done the moment an offer letter is signed. We don’t — we take a broader, more practical view of the hiring process.
End-to-end compliance and onboarding. We handle search, onboarding, and employment compliance under one roof, and stay involved through the onboarding phase so contracts, work passes, and compliance obligations are set up correctly from day one. A great candidate on shaky employment legal footing is still a major risk.
Hiring manager support & assessment tools. A great search only works if your team can evaluate candidates accurately. We partner with you so your team has the right assessment frameworks, interview scorecards, and training to evaluate and close top talent effectively.
How it works
- The Role Review. A chat where we get the real brief — not just the job description, but what the role actually needs to fix and who has failed at it before.
- Targeted Search. We go direct to the market for candidates who match the brief, screening for fit before you see a single profile.
- Curated shortlist. You see a small number of genuinely vetted candidates, not a volume dump.
- Compliance & Assessment Support. We equip your hiring managers with the right evaluation tools, then manage the employment paperwork and compliance so your new hire starts clean.
Proven Impact
An NGO came to us with over 300 unqualified resumes for a single role — the output of a mass-posting approach that had produced volume with no fit. We stepped in, refined the core criteria, trained the hiring manager on interviewing, and delivered a curated shortlist of 3 top-tier candidates who matched the brief. That’s the standard we hold every search to: curated shortlists, not resume dumps.
Our search practice is led by our Principal Consultant, who runs the talent-acquisition practice end to end — full recruitment lifecycle, regional across Southeast Asia, from frontline through Senior Director. Our team brings a decade across luxury houses including Cartier, Estée Lauder, Van Cleef & Arpels, Charles & Keith, and an Interim Head of HR role for Travel Retail APAC — direct experience hiring for the standards that senior commercial and luxury roles demand.
With Kinna Pte Ltd is a licensed Employment Agency in Singapore, EA Licence No. 26C3338. A bad senior hire typically costs well over S$150,000 in salary, severance, lost productivity and rehiring — making a properly executed search a smart investment.
Need ongoing HR support, not just a search? See Fractional HR Singapore. More questions, answered on our FAQ.
Frequently Asked
Common Questions
How do your fees work?
Search fees are scoped per role and agreed upfront before work begins — the structure depends on seniority and whether the mandate is retained or contingent. We’ll walk you through the model before anything is signed.
Are you a licensed recruitment agency?
Yes. With Kinna Pte Ltd holds EA Licence No. 26C3338, a licensed Employment Agency in Singapore.
How is this different from a normal recruitment agency?
Standard agencies stop at the offer letter. We integrate executive search with employment compliance, onboarding, and hiring manager assessment tools so your team can make a confident, legally sound hire.
How long does a search take?
It depends on seniority and how specialized the role is. We’ll give you a realistic timeline once we understand the position in The Role Review.
Do you only work with large companies?
No — most of our search clients are founders and lean HR teams without an internal recruitment function.