OLMEC EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Asia Pacific • The Americas • Europe • Middle East & Africa • Australia
WHO WE ARE
Olmec is a specialist human capital consulting practice, headquartered in Singapore, and with operations and capabilities across Asia-Pacific, The Americas, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Australia. Our two core businesses are Olmec Search and Olmec Consulting and our solutions range from executive recruitment, career transition management and development programs, outplacement, on-boarding and strategic human resource consulting. We build strategic long-term partnerships with our business partners centred around a philosophy of ‘doing more with less’.
We are highly targeted in terms of whom we partner with – the ultimate goal being to provide effective solutions to a smaller number of strategic customers but to do so across borders and functions. Many of our clients have been so for almost 20 years and we have effectively supported them in multiple geographies and by providing a range of services to improve their effectiveness.
Consequently, Olmec provides our clients with both a timely and cost-effective solution and yet never compromises on the high standards our clients expect.
OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Information technology
Life sciences
Financial services
Industrial and engineering
Professional services
Manufacturing & Retail
THE OLMEC VALUE PROPOSITION
Whilst providing a capability akin to the ‘Big 5’ Executive Search firms, we are able to do so more time and cost effectively. Due to our commitment to ‘doing more with less’, we are able to dedicate research and consulting resources to our clients ensuring a swift turnaround.
As a private company, we are unburdened by large corporate overheads enabling us to tailor our approach and cost structure to the demands of the assignment, ultimately creating a win-win for all parties.
Olmec embodies true partnership. As trusted advisors, we offer advice, consulting and insight to our clients to help them succeed in their own competitive workplace. We support them through upturns and downturns in the economy through the provision of our additional services (see Olmec Consulting) such as Outplacement, On-Boarding and Succession-Planning.
Olmec only employs ‘career’ recruiters and research professionals; with an average of over 15 years expertise in recruiting key professionals in their industry sector, our team supports our clients with comprehensive knowledge, extensive networks and a dedicated methodology honed over many years of completing successful assignments. In addition, our Partners in the business are the ones who undertake the assignments on behalf of our clients; we do not delegate to support associates.
Our High-Calibre-Talent tracking system has been developed over many years. This infrastructure captures key data and intelligence on the very best candidates in the market and harnesses the information in one centralised location. The Tracking System effectively acts as an up-to-date database of the very best potential individuals in the passive job market – it is not a historical database of unemployed or active candidates. Our mantra is that the very best candidates are generally not responding to advertisements or registering their resumes on recruiters databases – instead they are in their current roles performing on behalf of their employer and will only be interested in our clients’ opportunities through a direct approach for a relevant position from the Olmec team.
OLMEC SEARCH
Our traditional core business is as a research-driven, mid-senior level executive search practice; providing high-value recruitment solutions to Multi-National Corporations, Small-Medium Enterprises as well as Start-Ups. By recruiting senior recruitment executives into our business, we ensure not only the very highest standards and practices but some of the most networked professional search partners in the industry. This ensures that we are able to access and influence the very best candidates in the market and in particular the ‘passive job market’ where many of the best candidates operate. Our belief is that, generally speaking, the most effective and successful individuals performing their roles are not actively sourcing their next role but are actually invested in delivering strong outcomes for their current employers. One of our key differentiators is our ability to identify these high-calibre individuals through rigorous research and networking and then introduce targeted opportunities in order to attract them to our clients needs.
We possess both expertise in the following area:
VERTICAL
Information Technology
Financial Services
Life Sciences
Professional Services
Industrial & Engineering
Manufacturing & Retail
HORIZONTAL
Executive Management/Board-level recruitment
Interim Management/Senior-level contracting
Human Resources
Sales & Marketing
Finance
Information Technology
OLMEC CONSULTING
Having attracted and recruited the right talents into the organisation, it is imperative that companies do all they can to continue growing, developing and retaining the talents that they have.
Olmec Human Capital Consulting partners with Human Resources and Business leaders in providing advice, guidance and solutions, needed to optimise the people management functions, so that the business makes the most of their human capital.
Key services include, but are not limited to the following areas:
Executive coaching and Mentoring
Human Capital Management Consulting
Executive On-boarding and “First 100 days in the job” Coaching
Leadership and Managerial skills profiling
Competency Analysis and Benchmarking
Employer Branding Consulting
Outplacement and Career Transition
10-STEP APPROACH
At Olmec, we act as trusted advisors at all times to many of the world’s leading MNC’s, SME’s and Start Up businesses. Our key objective is to become a virtual extension of our clients by understanding them thoroughly including the structure of the company; reporting lines; key individuals; objectives of the business, culture and the ongoing needs of the operation in general. These methods enable us to provide the utmost value to our client’s business over the long-term. Our commitment to true partnership is unyielding.
Many of our clients engage us at the strategic planning stage in order to gain our insight into the market; understand recruitment trends such as salary levels and talent availability and to generally strategise with us as to how best to attain and retain the best talent in the marketplace on their behalf.
The Olmec methodology is unique and engages our customers throughout the process. We take a highly consultative approach and believe the key to any successful assignment is the investment of time and learning before the commencement of the assignment. We put together a tailored and comprehensive search strategy designed to not only take advantage of our extensive network within a global market but also to drive a thorough research process to recognise key talent in today’s market. This ensures that we source candidates from a truly global talent pool but are able to do so in a timely manner. We have built a sophisticated Tracking system over the years that charts individuals, companies, functional expertise and industry sectors which again enables us to identify, categorise and successfully approach this key talent on behalf of our clients.
The ‘Olmec 10-step Approach’ ensures we provide a repeatable, high-quality process EVERY time. Clients can therefore be assured that our proven methodology will result in a successful solution every time.
HISTORY OF OLMEC
The Olmec civilisation prospered in formative Mesoamerica from circa 1200BC to 400BC and is generally regarded as the forerunner of all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures such as the Aztecs and Mayans. Centred in the Gulf of Mexico (now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco), their influence and trade activity spread from 1200BC reaching as far-south as what we now know as Nicaragua. The first significant urban centre was in San Lorenzo and remained so for almost 300 years until the city was destroyed and its great monuments defaced. La Venta thus became the Olmec Capital in circa 900BC until it too was destroyed in circa 400BC to 300BC, ending the Olmec as a civilisation.
The first true civilisation of the New World left behind a lasting legacy however. The Olmec developed what is often regarded as the very first alphabet, calendar and system of arithmetic in the New World and their magnetic compass pre-dated the Chinese by several centuries. They became synonymous with sculpture and their craftsmanship was reflected in the form of large basalt statues, masks and pyramids. The mysterious monumental portraits of their rulers were carved out of the hardest of stones and stood almost 3 metres high and weighed 15 tonnes They were carved from volcanic boulders and were carried over 90 kilometres to where their resting places were discovered. To this day, experts are in awe of the precision and skill required to carve such sculptures without the use of metal tools. The task of transporting these boulders demonstrated an advanced, well-organised society – unparalleled in Middle America at that time.
Today, the few Olmec remnants that survived and that have been preserved show us of their technical excellence, their ingenuity and craftsmanship.
At Olmec Search and Olmec Consulting, we utilise our own technical excellence, ingenuity and craftsmanship to source the very best ‘heads’ on behalf of our clients.
CONTACT US
Singapore Office:
99 Duxton Road, Level 2 Singapore 089543
d. +65 6950 2730
info@olmecsearch.com
Asia Pacific • The Americas • Europe • Middle East & Africa • Australia