Gareth Bibby MBA, CIPD

APSCo Global is the international trade body representing international recruitment agencies through offices in Australia, Germany, Asia and the UK. APSCo helps members navigate the professional recruitment market by raising standards and delivering expert support and market intelligence to members around the world. My role is to expand APSCo membership across Southeast Asia and to serve our existing members. I achieve this by building our community and organising events for the recruitment profession in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as forming links with government entities and trusted partners. I provide insights to our community on the global recruitment scene, and offer platforms for our members and partners to expand their reach. If you are passionate about the recruitment industry and based in Asia, and you want to find out more about the future ahead for staffing agencies and how APSCo could help, get in touch anytime for a friendly chat.

Contract partnership with CyberOwl to assist them in finding roles for their unique cybersecurity and maritime operations. I act as their embedded Talent Partner, helping them to attract the best talent for their global needs. CyberOwl is a cybersecurity company specialising in protecting operational assets, particularly within the maritime and offshore sectors. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in Singapore and London, CyberOwl focuses on enhancing the cyber resilience of shipboard systems and other remote operational technologies. CyberOwl's flagship product is Medulla, a cybersecurity monitoring and analytics system designed for maritime environments.

Thumos an ancient Greek word signifying vitality, spiritedness, and the pure essence of human drive. It takes the human spirit as the driver of anything that is achievable. I believe that people - and the Thumos they bring - are at the heart of every organisation's success. Thumos Consulting is rooted in this ethos. My goal is to help businesses unlock the full potential of their people by aligning talent strategy with purpose, energy, and humanity. Thumos offers advisory services on talent acquisition, talent management, community building, and the recruitment profession with a particular focus on East and Southeast Asia. Join me on my mission to put the human back into human resources.

The Leadership & Talent Development Committee seeks to engage, inspire and educate members to develop their businesses effectively by providing events, content and insights in two main areas - Leadership: including managing colleagues in agile and complex working environments; leading millennials and young professionals; and motivating and engaging teams; and Talent: including recruiting effectively in Singapore; retaining and developing talent; and encouraging diversity. - Share Ideas, best practices and thought leadership on leadership and talent development topics with the broader BCC community - Facilitate dialogue with other BCC committees on leadership and talent development to create cross-committee collaboration for greater efficiency and impact. - Create networking opportunities for LTD members.

A transitionary role focused on permanent roles in oil and gas, oil services, then finally renewables.

At INSEAD I led a global Talent Acquisition team of 5 people across France and Singapore in the continuous task of finding the best talent to join our campuses in France, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and the USA. During this time I was responsible for all recruitment of administrative staff from junior level to C-Suite. • Hired and trained a new global team of Talent Acquisition Specialists. • Partnered with senior management on executive and C-suite roles as a personal executive head-hunter. Personally recruited for all departments including IT, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Administration. • Conceptualised and carried out the recruitment strategy for entirely new departments (Procurement, Masters in Management) and new locations (San Francisco). • Drastically reduced agency cost across INSEAD by approximately 400,000 euros. • Worked with HR Business Partners on new onboarding and employer branding projects; designed and led a “Ready to Recruit” training workshop to teach managers on interview technique and process. • Ultimately responsible for all permanent and temporary staff hires across all campuses and departments totalling approximately 300 vacancies per year from junior to C-Suite level. • Created KPIs, structure and targets to guide an entirely new global team.

For my first two years at INSEAD I was the school's first specialised Talent Acquisition Specialist working as their initial Centre of Expertise for recruitment at our Asia Campus in Singapore. I successfully began the change of the function from an agency-reliant generalist scope to a self-sufficient and agile recruitment team. During this time I also supported all recruitments on our France, Abu Dhabi and US campuses. At any one time I would be working on 15-20 positions globally and tasked with providing data insights on candidate profiles. I also delivered internal recruitment training to stakeholders and advised hiring strategy at approval level.

Randstad is the world’s 2nd largest recruitment company with a well-established presence in Singapore. My task at Randstad was initially to build our capability first within the area of engineering, and then later into supply chain, logistics and procurement. Over my time at Randstad I recruited for many different industries and companies in Singapore in the following specialities: • Demand Planners, Supply Planners, Procurement Managers and Logistics Managers. • Engineering Directors, Manufacturing Managers, Operations Managers, specialised electrical and mechanical engineers. • Architects, Designers and Construction Managers • Service and Sales Engineers, Marine Specialists, Technicians. • Oil and Gas Professionals. • Civil Engineers, Architects, Designers, Construction and Interior Design Awards and Achievements: • Going Gets Tough Award: August 2014 • Randstad Top-Biller / Consultant of the Month: December 2015 • Executive Club winner: 2015 • Executive Club winner: 2016 • Best advertisement content: May 2016 • Switch from engineering to supply chain desk: May 2016 • Going Gets Tough Award: January 2017

NES Global Talent is one of the world’s largest oil and gas recruitment consultancies. Based within the Singapore office, in this position I was responsible for all permanent placements within our energy and offshore clients as well as related engineering positions in other industries, especially construction. My client base was a mixture of existing key accounts that required service for Singapore, as well as companies generated through individual business development activity. In addition I also took care of the supply and maintenance of our Contractors based within our key accounts. I managed the full recruitment cycle involving targeting potential local and overseas talent, on-boarding and mobilization in Asia, plus full after-sales care of Contractors living in the region for their domestic, medical, payroll and taxation needs. • Managed the needs of a team of up to 25 Chevron contractors from across the globe who are currently based in Singapore on project basis. • Serviced key accounts like Shell, Chevron, Inpex and Apache for recruitment needs across Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia (Batam) and Malaysia (Johor Bahru and Ipoh). • Regularly had to set-up innovative recruitment strategies to find required talent in out-of-reach areas outside of Singapore using a referral network and referral bonus structure. • 360-degree involvement of bringing overseas talent to Asia from targeting, hiring process, offer negotiation, mobilisation and on-boarding.

Recruitment consultant for new Robert Walters division dealing with the recruitment of engineering and technical professionals within Singapore. As the only recruitment consultant on Robert Walters’ new industrial division, I was 100% responsible for all engineering and technical positions, business development and candidate generation for our Singapore office. I focused most of my efforts on the marine, facilities and power generation industries, but was also responsible for technical vacancies with any of Robert Walters’ existing clients like marine, energy and construction/design. My work succeeded in growing the company’s reputation in an area where it lacked a track record. • Negotiated contracts and established new business relationships with multinational clients in the engineering industry including Wartsila, National Oilwell Varco, Hamworthy and Aggreko. • Coverage of engineering recruitment for the marine, offshore, EPC, automotive, aviation, power generation and facilities (construction, design, operations) industries. • From scratch I built up a new database of senior engineering candidates for Robert Walters’ new engineering division through referrals, active headhunting, and market mapping. • Wrote quarterly market updates for the industries in my coverage and contributed to annual salary surveys, newsletters and forecasts.

As Business Development Director/Asia Sourcing Manager I had a dual facing role in which I was responsible for the sale and promotion to our clients of our international Careers in Asia recruitment summits, and the attraction process involving highly talented Asian professionals who were looking for careers back in their home countries. I was in regular daily contact with a large number of leading international and local companies in East Asia, and was responsible for a large network of graduate and professional attraction channels across Europe. In addition, I managed my own support team and was heavily involved with all aspects of marketing and event management giving me full range responsibility. • Daily sales and conference calls with leading multinational companies in Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America promoting our Careers in Asia recruitment events. • Sales lead for entire Asia Pacific region: responsible for organising team sales strategy, sales budget, account management, new product development and service delivery. • Researching and contacting new and existing clients for further business and maximising number of participants at all of our summits. • Responsible for all Asia attraction activities. This includes researching, contacting and maintaining relationships with universities, business schools, Asian societies, alumni groups and professional associations across Europe to ensure a continuous new candidate flow. • Created social media channels to access a greater range of candidates across Europe and Asia through Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and other Asian language websites. • Single-handedly located, recruited and managed daily an Asian attraction team to be responsible for Asia attraction, lead generation and market research.

Was selected from a group of top-performing and high-potential employees at INSEAD to take part in a specially curated course on Agile Management for INSEAD internal staff.

CIPD Level 5 is a British Human Resources certificate that includes modules on Organisational Performance and Culture, Evidence-Based Practice, Professional Behaviours, Employee Relationship Management, Talent Management and Workforce Planning, Performance Rewards, and Specialist Employment Law.

5 x Dean's List winner. Graduated with a 6.90 out of 7.00 GPA. MBA with a focus on Global Talent Management. Modules included Performance Management, Contemporary Issues in HR, Organisational Change, HR Analytics, Accounting, Leadership Futures, Sustainability, Corporate Governance, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Strategy, and Managing Strategic Resources and Operations. Capstone thesis focused on the impact of the Tripartite Guidelines on Flexible Work Arrangements on Singaporean SMEs.

4 year degree in Chinese language, culture and history. Included one year exchange at People's University, Beijing.