GESS INTERNATIONAL Successfully places Consumer Market Director in World-Wide Top 3 Semiconductor Company.

March 23rd, 2010

GESS INTERNATIONAL has successfully placed the Japan Consumer Segment Director of a World-Wide Top-3 Semiconductor Company dealing in products for the analog and mixed-signal market. Our client is a major European company designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company markets its products into the industrial, communications, automotive and computing markets.

Increasingly the company has gained a market share in the consumer segment in Japan of over US$ 400 Million.

GESS engaged the client through its operations in Japan and Europe. We were NOT the only company involved in the search but effectively competed against numerous recruitment companies in Japan. We emerged with both the #1 and the #2 (back up) candidates for the position. GESS was not working Job Boards or On-line postings from candidates, but actively recruiting -- cold-calling and name collecting, inside the competitor companies and meeting new, fresh candidates that were not on the market.

Working closely with both the Senior Japanese HR Manager. This was a key hire and the company measured the personality of the candidate with all of the concerned line-managers. As a result the hire took about three months from initial contact to an offer being signed.