Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | November 2009 34 Recruitment Right People, Right Expertise MSS Recruitment stakes its claim as Asia’s specialist company for sourcing gaming executives Market intelligence Despite the fact that general tourism has been growing in the Pearl River Delta region for decades, few recruitment companies retain information on senior job candidates from the gaming industry, or candidates that have CVs that would be a good fit for the industry, suggests Ms Tu. MSS Recruitment has that knowledge she says. “Macau is a regional gaming centre and so there are gaming executives from all over the world working here. As a result, we at MSS Recruitment have a very comprehensive database of gaming executives—especially from the land-based sector,” states Ms Tu. Because of the size of its gaming market, Macau has attracted a lot of the best industry executives from around the world. As the Asian gaming industry expands, those senior people are interested in taking exciting new jobs in new markets. We at MSS Recruitment are in close touch with these candidates via our existing database and can help to match them with companies across the region. Global perspective Although the ‘MSS’ part of the company name stands for ‘Macau Search and Selection’, the business is now a global one to reflect the underlying nature of the industry it specialises in serving. “We have a regional focus in terms of candidates, but we also have global partnerships,” says Ms Tu. “I n terms of gaming executive recruitment, there is no other executive search company in the region with our level of expertise.” So says Jiji Tu, an entrepreneur who set up MSS Recruitment in Macau a year ago after identifying an important gap in the market. “I established MSS Recruitment because Macau has been developing really quickly. But in terms of the supporting service industries, it’s still an immature market,” states Ms Tu. “People are definitely starting to recruit again now in Macau and elsewhere in the region. The layoffs and retrenchment have stopped, and people are now looking at hiring again, and hiring the right candidates.”