Antal International, a leading global recruitment provider, today officially announces that it has built a strategic partnership with Career International, a leading recruitment total solution provider in China. The China branch of Antal International will keep its existing brand and independent operation.
The strategic cooperation will have a significant impact on the human resource market in China. With huge market potential and imminent radical change within the recruitment industry. Both Domestic and Western companies continue to further expand into tier 2,3 or 4 cities and are keen to develop tailor-made, innovative recruitment/HR solutions combining best global practice with insight into the local market.
As a large number of Chinese companies are expanding into overseas markets, the need for one-stop talent acquisition plans with access to a global service network and universal standard are highly in demand.
The win-win co-operation with Career International is Antal International’s major strategic initiative for expanding the China and Southeast Asia markets, which will greatly strengthen regional expansion, service customisation, relationships with local clients, government relations and brand communication.
"What inspires and excites me the most about this innovative and pioneering strategic partnership with China's leading human capital organization is the potential for mutual client, candidate and staff development within China and SE Asia,” said Tony Goodwin, Chairman and Founder for Antal International."It combines the best knowledge and experience in China, CI , with Antal's 18 year track record in China. It also enables, facilitates and links CI China with the rest of Antal's clients and candidates worldwide. Western business service companies have been searching for the ideal Chinese partner for years, the difference between Antal and the others is that we have found a genuinely brilliant partner to grow and develop our business with to become number 1 in the China market place and beyond.”
"This is an excellent opportunity to help our clients and staff move up to the next level: from good to great. As the local China market has huge and diversified demands, a new wave of globalization of Chinese enterprise is coming. Our clients are looking for a solution addressing both global and local needs,” said Wallace Gao, Chairman and Founder for Career International, "By taking advantage of CI’s expertise and knowledge in the China market, our strong government relations, and our extensive network in China and South East Asia, jointly we are able to provide our clients with more valued services. I fully believe that the Antal China team is able to function well with this strategic partnership and embrace a greater success.”
"This is the most exciting Asian recruitment collaboration announcement in recent years, both companies have very strong brands in different areas of the China/Asia recruitment markets and bring different experiences and knowledge sets. Antal globally has been built on a culture of sharing information, knowledge and experience for the benefits of our clients, candidates and colleagues, these are values and principles that are shared with our new Partner company.” Said James Darlington, Head Of Asia for Antal.
Antal International Ltd
An international recruitment company with a network comprising 132 offices in 32 countries. The head office is based in London, United Kingdom. The company offers international recruitment services including retained executive search and selection, contingent recruitment in permanent, interim and contract / temporary staffing. Two of the key Antal products are regular research on hiring and firing trends in job markets around the world – The Antal Global Snapshot and a bi-annual business magazine "Antal Passport" featuring current trends in international markets and sectors.
Career International
As a leading one-stop recruitment solution provider in China, Career International established in 1996, has more than 1000 professional recruiters and branches in 40 locations in the PRC and South East Asia. In the past year, we have successfully recommended more than 20000 permanent and dispatched talents for our clients, of whom 16000 are senior management, professional and technical employees.
We have built long-term cooperative relationships with over 1500 multinational corporations and listed Chinese companies, 70% of which are foreign-owned enterprises, 25% fast-growing enterprises, and 5% state-owned enterprises.