Inside Asian Gaming

November 2009 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 37 tel: (853) 8294 6050 fax: (853) 8294 2200 email: info@mss-recruitment.com address: Level 20 AIA Tower, No. 251A - 301, Avenida Comercial de Macau, Macau Right People... Right Expertise... For all your Asian gaming executive recruitment needs Recruitment resources and recruitment sectors in Sydney, Australia, and in Singapore. Working in those major financial centres with trading and investment links across the world has helped her to understand the truly global nature of 21st century executive placement. And her human resources roles have, she maintains, enabled her to see things from the client’s perspective as well as from the recruiter’s viewpoint. “We’re committed to sourcing, screening and delivering top quality professionals,” she stresses. “We pride ourselves in finding the right fit for our candidates and for our corporate clients.” Values One of MSS Recruitment’s stated brand values is “Right People, Right Expertise”. That means having the right team to execute the search and selection process in order to find the best candidates. MSS has a team of six multilingual professionals based in Macau committed to that task. “Gaming recruitment is all about network and connections. You have to know the industry, and you need to have the right network and connections in order to deliver the recruitment service,” concludes Ms Tu. “If a casino operator wants a gaming executive and gives the assignment to us, not only will we search through our connections in the region or in Macau, but we will also work with our executive search partners in the US and Europe in order to conduct a global search for the client.” That ability to search across the world for the right person is vital in an industry such as gaming that has been built on the promotion of excellence and innovation in management culture, says Ms Tu. “We have a partnership with a Las Vegas-based executive search firm which is really strong in casino recruitment. And we have another partnership with a recruitment firm based in the UK, which is very strong in iGaming [online and interactive gaming]. “The demand currently for iGaming executives in Asia Pacific is limited because in many markets the necessary regulatory policies are not yet in place. But in a few years they may well be. We want to position ourselves for that.” Experience Ms Tu has an international background of her own, having worked for eight years in senior executive positions in the human