For Job Seekers

Specialization
Paul Wright operates in specialized practice groups, allowing you to leverage the network and experience of our Senior Executive Recruitment Consultants who understands your functional specialization or industry.
Established Network
Across our global offices, we have a diverse and well-established network of leading global companies from industries including information technology, life sciences, financial services, real estate and construction, and professional firms such as law firms and accounting firms. We work with large global fortune 500 companies, in addition to new venture firms, looking to enter respective local markets where our offices are located.
Local Experience
Our Senior Consultants within each country office know the market very well. We pride ourselves in our relationship-driven and research driven approach in order to provide the best market intelligence to those who come to us for help.
High Standards
Our high standards on ethics, integrity, and honesty will never be compromised no matter what the market situation is. We conduct all of our business with candidates and clients on a strictly confidential, legal and ethical basis.
Accountancy & Finance
Accountancy & Finance:
Led by experienced practice leaders and senior consultants, our accountancy & finance team has an excellent track record in helping candidates across all finance functions, including but not limited to Regional CFO, CFO, finance manager, FPNA, auditors, risk manager, CPA, and other financial and accounting functions. At Paul Wright Group, we understand the fast-paced recruitment market for accountancy and finance jobs in Asia. We are dedicated to helping our candidates with attention to details, personal engagement, and long-term commitment to achieve their career objectives.

Risk Management:
Our risk management team supports the careers of those working in increasingly complex and technical positions operating under ever-
higher levels of pressure and scrutiny.Our practice leaders and senior consultants understand the nuances of the market and stay current on recent innovations, products, strategies, and regulations impacting risk management. We cover audit, credit analysts, credit risk, funds and insurance, operational risk, technology, market risk, and treasury functions.
Consumer Goods
The consumer goods team has over a decade’s operation in the market. Focused mostly on functional hiring for sales and marketing roles, the practice leaders and senior consultants have made placements across titles in marketing, sales, digital, PR, corporate affairs, E-commerce, and general management. As experts in these talent pools, Paul Wright’s consultants can match motivated candidates to specific job requirements. With an extremely diverse and impressive client list, our consultants can use their experience to deliver results more like a business partner than a traditional recruiter. Our highly relationship-driven service has been exceeding expectations for many years.We see ourselves as consultants in the true meaning of the word,helping not only to scout the right people to join our clients’ businesses but providing essential advice and market information for our candidates.
E-Commerce
The E-Commerce team operates within the consumer retail and FMCG space. With its complete and strong market mapping serving as a backbone for understanding the market, the team is able to provide market knowledge to our candidates.

From shifts within the retail sector to changes in consumer behaviors, we constantly develop renewed and evolved updates on the market, through which we help our candidates to understand the bigger picture.
Financial services
Financial Services:
Our financial services team has very accurate in-depth knowledge of the financial services sector across Taiwan. We collaborate with our senior consultants who have a proven track record with a long list of financial institutions locally and regionally, including but not limited to investment banks, retail banks, private equity firms, asset management, securities firms, and insurance companies.

Corporate Banking:
Paul Wright Group specializes in corporate banking, a central function in many banks across the APAC region.Since the financial crisis,
this sector has been witnessing increasing demands for talent acquisition.Our services are offered to candidates from international MNCs, banks, asset management companies and fund houses, as well as other banking and non-banking financial institutions including insurance companies.

Functional & FinTech:
We have full desk support for any FinTech candidates. Our practice leaders and senior consultants also focus on helping talents in the areas of operations, change management, business analysts, IT functions, and front and middle office functions.

Investment Management:
The investment management team is focused on asset management, hedge fund, private equity, wealth management, etc. within the Taiwan and Hong Kong markets. As Asia is in the center of every major private bank’s growth strategy, firms wishing to become successful in this key market must act on several fronts. Accordingly, relationship managers and portfolio specialists are in high demand within the wealth management and private banking sectors, and our local knowledge of the market trends is exactly what the candidates need.
Human Resources
Our human resources ("HR") team understands that supporting functions are an integral part of our clients’ organizational success, and we continually strive to ensure the success of the industries we serve. Our team delivers high quality career assistance to the corporate and financial services candidates, as well as within the broader legal, commercial, and financial markets.

Our senior consultants cover all levels including but not limited to HR director, HR business partner, recruiting manager, HR generalist, change management, training and development, C&B, and performance evaluation and management staff.
Legal & Compliance
In-House Commercial:
Our in-house legal team prides itself in being a premium search firm for Fortune 500 companies across several jurisdictions, including Japan, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with track records from regional director/APAC counsel, country legal head, senior counsel, to law firm partner, of-counsel, senior associate, IP counsel, and paralegal.

We cover all industries from high-tech, semiconductor, systems, hardware, software, to e-commerce and consumer electronics, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, FMCG, retail, entertainment, and construction sectors. Over the years we have successfully helped over
200 legal & compliance candidates to enter into Fortune 500 companies and multinational corporations throughout various jurisdictions. Our team’s collective knowledge of legal market trends within North Asia as well as our connection with even more closed-off markets such as Japan gives our candidates a complete picture of what their career prospects are.

Financial Services:
Led by our senior group attorney and practice leaders, Paul Wright Group is known for its top-notch service of helping candidates within the sectors of investment banks, corporate banks, private banks, asset management firms, securities firms, and insurance companies. Our connection is strong within the local markets and our reputation trustworthy, as time and again we have been validated by senior legal and compliance heads within the financial services market. We cover all roles from general counsel, senior legal counsel, legal counsel, company secretary, legal manager, paralegal, and regulatory affairs as well as compliance officer.

Company Secretarial:
Paul Wright Group’s legal & compliance team also focuses on helping candidates who will fulfill an integral role in the organization, assisting senior management in complying with standard financial and legal practice, as well as corporate governance standards. These professionals serve as a point of communication between the Board of Directors and company shareholders of MNCs including financial institutions and other commercial companies across all industries.

Compliance & AML:
Due to recent tightening of regulatory requirements worldwide, major international and domestic financial institutions have been under increasing pressure to restructure and expand regulatory compliance functions and financial crime compliance (FCC) teams. We are equipped to assist the candidates who possess the specific skills required for specialist compliance from audit, legal, or general operational side backgrounds. We are known for our integrity, honesty, and attention to our candidates’ unique needs. We do not push or rush our process in exchange for short-term gains, but rather emphasize lasting relationships with our candidates. Trustworthiness built on transparency of interactions and accuracy in our presentations distinguishes Paul Wright Group as the executive search firm that truly cares about our clients.

Private Practice:
We support private practice candidates in finding all levels of position within international and local law firms: from partner, of-counsel and senior associate to junior associate, IP counsel, and paralegal. Our multilingual consultants have local language proficiency and extensive market knowledge in Japan and across Greater China including Taiwan and Hong Kong. We break down barriers to these difficult markets where competitors struggle.
Sales & Marketing
Paul Wright has a team of dedicated practice leaders and senior consultants focused on hiring within the sales and marketing function across all industries. With 16+ years of headhunting experience combined, Paul Wright consultants have covered a variety of roles within the commercial function umbrella. For example, digital marketing, branding, trade marketing, PR and communications within marketing function and channel sales, key account, business development, and overseas sales within sales function.

Paul Wright has the candidate pool to cover junior level all the way up to Commercial Head or General Manager. Because of this functional hiring focus, we can recruit within a variety of different industries. Within the consumer, tech, food & beverage, tobacco, internet, start-ups,
education, hardware, and software sectors, we have placed high-quality caliber candidates in several key positions for an impressive list of clients.

Our strong candidate pool and market relationships are also complimented by an in-depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities within these functions. For any candidates wishing to get a better insight into the market, we would be happy to help provide consulting on salary levels, company structures, and competition.
Supply Chain
Serving as the backbone to global economy and eCommerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has taken on a more crucial and proactive stand in profit generation for corporations. At Paul Wright, we take time in understanding your evolving business strategies at tactical and operational levels for supply chain’s needs when we search for the right talent.

Our senior consultants possess in-depth knowledge on the market, share market trend information, provide accurate information on SCM structural organization and transferrable skills that are key to the success of SCM talent acquisition. Whether it be E-supply chain or demand-based supply chain management across different sectors and industries,our consulting service not only aims to satisfy your
ever-changing needs in the Asia-Pacific regional and global supply chain management, but also provides a step up in your change management for the future.
Technology
Paul Wright Group has a talented software, hardware, firmware, Internet, and semiconductor team, where our practice leaders and senior consultants are ready to assist candidates within sectors and functions including software, hardware, firmware, Internet, semiconductor, and start-ups companies in North Asia, specifically within Japan and Taiwan.

We specialize in IT risk and cyber security, internet and e-commerce, business analysts, software engineers, and payments, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers. Our mechanical & hardware electronics practice has worked with hundreds of candidates, with a longstanding relationship with middle to senior level candidates from both manufacturing and branding sides. Our consultants possess
in-depth knowledge on the ever-changing technology market, including up-to-date salary information, company’s organizational structure, as well as incentives and bonus structures.

We provide solid consultation along with recruitment services, acting as a career coach and advisory for our candidates rather than as a traditional recruiter. We work closely with our candidates to help them understand what is realistic and what is an ideal career option.
Executive-Level Search
When given a specific “confidential search assignment” or “exclusive mandate”, our experienced practice leaders and senior consultants will put together a special project team to help our candidates to understand and proceed with such senior and executive positions within a given market or economic sector. We approach highly sensitive candidates with utmost discretion as part of our professional ethics and respect for personal privacy.

We help our candidates to target suitable opportunities for their career enhancement. To achieve this, we often leverage our regional and global network of Fortune 500 companies to more effectively connect with clients we are targeting while ensuring all confidentiality is preserved throughout the hiring and recruiting process.

Contact Our Global Offices

Denver, USA

Denver, USA:+1-862-202-3724

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China:+86-139-1809-5314

Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan:+886-2-6605-7205

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