People Profilers Pte Ltd

People Profilers Pte Ltd visit us at www.peopleprofilers.com
EA Licence Number: 02C4944

We are an Executive Search and Recruitment company dedicated to providing quality staffing solutions, outsourcing HR services and expertise to a wide variety of organizations. People Profilers is a leading recruitment and HR solutions provider in Asia, supporting businesses with end-to-end workforce solutions across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. We specialise in recruitment, executive search, staffing, Employer of Record (EOR), payroll outsourcing, and HR advisory.

A candidate's resume might say "customer success." The job description might say "client relations." Same skill, differe...
27/08/2026

A candidate's resume might say "customer success." The job description might say "client relations." Same skill, different words.
Most systems screen resumes by matching exact keywords. If the wording doesn't line up, a well-qualified candidate can get filtered out before anyone reads their profile properly.
At People Profilers, we built our own matching technology to work differently. It reads job scope and context, not just words, recognising that the same skill set can show up in a resume in many different ways.
The result: candidates get matched on what a role actually requires, not on how closely their resume happens to word it.
If you're hiring in the months ahead, send us the role, and we'll find the candidates a keyword search would have missed.

Some of the best feedback never reaches us directly, it comes up in conversations between the people we've worked with.P...
24/08/2026

Some of the best feedback never reaches us directly, it comes up in conversations between the people we've worked with.

Precision over volume, candidates who truly fit, and support that holds steady when hiring gets demanding; That's how clients have described working with our consultant Gesse Tan, and it reflects the standard our consultants bring to every partnership.

20/08/2026

"I found out my employee has a second job. Can I fire them?"

We're hearing this one more and more as remote and hybrid work become the norm. The instinct makes sense, but the legal reality is trickier than most employers expect.

In most of Southeast Asia, a second job on its own is not grounds for dismissal. What matters is what sits beneath it:
Is there a real conflict of interest?
Is the employee using your company's time, data, or clients?
Does their contract actually restrict outside work?

If the answer to all three is no, moving too fast can land your business in an unfair dismissal claim. The very step that was meant to protect the company ends up putting it at risk.

This is why a lot of companies would rather hand the whole thing to us. From contracts to compliance to placing the right people in the right roles, we run the process from start to finish, carefully with the discretion these decisions call for.

The candidate was perfect, but there was one catch: he needed six months to hand over his current role before he could s...
18/08/2026

The candidate was perfect, but there was one catch: he needed six months to hand over his current role before he could start.

A lot of people would have walked away right there. We didn't and honestly, the reason he needed those six months was the same reason we wanted him. Someone who won't leave his employer in a mess is exactly the kind of person you want handling your clients.

Our client, a German engineering supplier hiring for a very specialised Oil and Gas sales role in Vietnam, saw it the same way. So instead of walking, we planned around the wait. He joined a few months later, and was worth every week of it. The role everyone said couldn't be filled was filled by the person worth waiting for.

While Matthew was in Vietnam, our team took the chance to celebrate his birthday together.It's always good when a visit ...
14/08/2026

While Matthew was in Vietnam, our team took the chance to celebrate his birthday together.

It's always good when a visit lines up with a reason to celebrate. Across all five of our markets, these are the moments that keep People Profilers feeling like one team rather than five separate offices.

Thanks to our Vietnam team for making it a good one 🎉

Every company eventually picks one: the culture that protects its people, or the culture that pushes them. 🤔We've backfi...
13/08/2026

Every company eventually picks one: the culture that protects its people, or the culture that pushes them. 🤔
We've backfilled teams that "family cultures" lost to boredom, and teams that "hustle cultures" lost to burnout. Both sides break, just differently.
Maybe the real question isn't which culture is right. It's which one your company needs at THIS stage, and whether you'd recognise when it's time to switch.
Leaders, which are you building right now? 💬

Expanding into a new market always carries the same quiet risk: what if the rules change halfway through? A tax structur...
11/08/2026

Expanding into a new market always carries the same quiet risk: what if the rules change halfway through? A tax structure shifts, a regulation tightens, and the plan you built six months ago no longer holds.
In Singapore, this risk is unusually low. Corporate tax is a flat 17%, applied the same way to local and foreign companies alike, often lower in practice with standard exemptions. Regulations stay consistent instead of shifting under you. And Singapore is ranked the third least corrupt country in the world, the top standing in Asia, so contracts and licenses do what they're supposed to.
None of that replaces the work of setting up properly. Entity structure, hiring, payroll, and compliance still take getting right. But it does mean businesses here are building on solid ground, not shifting sand.
Twenty years of operating in Singapore has shown us this, case after case. If Singapore is part of your expansion plans, we're happy to walk through what that setup actually looks like.

Happy 61st National Day, Singapore.For the past two decades, we've had the privilege of a front-row seat, watching that ...
09/08/2026

Happy 61st National Day, Singapore.
For the past two decades, we've had the privilege of a front-row seat, watching that spirit in every jobseeker taking a brave next step and every business builder creating opportunities for others.
To everyone celebrating this long weekend, whether at the parade, by the bay for the fireworks, or overseas with Singapore in your heart: Happy National Day. 🇸🇬

Some placements end when the offer letter is signed. Others last a career. ✨Fourteen years ago, our consultant Joyce pla...
04/08/2026

Some placements end when the offer letter is signed. Others last a career. ✨
Fourteen years ago, our consultant Joyce placed a candidate in a new role. This year, that candidate shared her story on LinkedIn, reflecting on her journey and thanking Joyce for opening the door all those years ago.
It couldn't have come at a more fitting time, because this year Joyce also celebrates 20 years with People Profilers.
Two decades of trust built one conversation at a time. Careers shaped, relationships that outlast every market cycle, and a thank-you that arrived 14 years later to prove it.
Congratulations, Joyce, thank you for showing us all what people-first recruitment truly looks like. Here's to you. 💛

Strong partnerships are built through consistency, communication, and understanding the people behind the business. Whet...
28/07/2026

Strong partnerships are built through consistency, communication, and understanding the people behind the business. Whether it's supporting regional team growth or navigating hiring challenges across different markets, we're grateful for the trust our clients continue to place in us and our consultants. Real words from the partnerships we've had the privilege to build over the years.

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