With more than 17,000 employees around the world working together as one company, this global industrial leader dose business and serves customers in over 120 countries.

When it expanded its core competences into Asia region, it encountered a great difficulty that the business market had been,for a long time, occupied by other thousands of smaller-scale corporations. To this client's ethics, it is always in pursuit of its goal of sustainable profitable growth, aiming for market leadership and technological leadership to be world number one. Thus coming out of the recruitment demands of global-viewed business leader with strategic management backgrounds.

As to the qualifications for this right fit, our client needed the talent who possesses extensive exposures to commercial negotiation environments, including communications with counterparts of same industry lines, government agencies and shareholders. Besides the strategic sense of business, hands-on operation ability was also the key criteria for this vacancy.

For about one year before we started this top search, our client had selected and interviewed a dozen of candidates who applied for. Unfortunately, almost the candidates lacked obviously one of the key qualities our client needed.