Sean Tong

Partner | Head of Asia

Sean is an experienced HR Recruiter partnering the Asia HR community for years, specialising in senior level appointments. As Head of Asia at Frazer Jones, he divides his time between Singapore & Hong Kong offices overseeing Frazer Jones’ regional business strategy across South East Asia, Greater China, Japan, Korea and India.

He is actively executing HR retained searches, partnering with CEOs and CHROs to appoint their regional Heads of HR and build their regional and country HR teams with salaries ranging from SGD200k to SGD500k. His extensive experience has enabled him to recruit across numerous sectors delivering recruitment solutions for Asian conglomerates, Global MNCs, Private Equities, Start-ups and SMEs across all sectors.

Prior to that, he had cut his teeth in executive search at an International Executive Search Group. There, he headed up HR & Technology practices with teams of 10+ consultants. He was also part of the Senior Leadership Team, a consistent top performer and made it for ‘Platinum Club’ in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Before entering into the executive search industry, Sean's career was in Corporate Advisory (M&A - IPO), during which time he has worked in China, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Outside of work, like a true Singaporean, Sean loves his food (real gastronaut), is a keen traveller and spends quality time with his wife and two daughters. A dedicated father, husband and lifelong gamer.

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TESTIMONIALS

Joyce Lim

Head of People & Business Partner

Sean inspires me with his energy in a demanding job where everybody including Hiring Managers, HR Managers, prospective candidates, his team are in need for his time. He is always ready with a thoughtful response for his audience. Sean balances the varied stakeholders very well - whether I am in the role of a prospective employer, or candidate - he gives me the confidence that he is looking out for my best interest. Most of all, it's always a pleasure to engage and interact with him.

Dave Kowal

Global Vice President HR

Sean is an excellent recruitment partner who receives positive feedback from both the internal managers he works with and, crucially, the candidates. He understands the HR market in South East Asia very well and his personal business flare makes him a good partner when looking for commercially minded HR people.

Larissa (Long) O'Donovan

Vice President, Global HR Operational Excellence

Sean is a highly professional and knowledgeable recruiting consultant. Sean partners with you and is very quick to understand the client's needs including: technical, experience, industry, leadership skills and cultural fit required for the position and effectively searches his own extensive network and beyond, to find quality candidates. Sean is engaging and represents his clients well to all stakeholders and I have no hesitation in recommending Sean.

Sharon Chan

Regional Human Resources Director, Asia Pacific

Sean is an excellent partner in either searching for the right candidate that fits the Company or supporting the candidate in their job search. He is highly approachable, authentic and dedicates time to understand and listen to the needs from both the client's and candidate's perspective. Having known him through the years, he is one who truly values long-term relations and is always ready to provide a listening ear and good advice when asked. He is someone whom I will trust to find the right calibre of candidate for the Company. Thank you, Sean, for the great partnership over the years and many more ahead.

Alexander Loh

Vice President, HR

Sean has been an excellent support and adviser when we were recruiting key leadership positions within Asia Pacific. He helped us understand the state of the market, provided us with different profiles that were relevant to us and was a good link between us and the candidate when we came to make an offer. I am happy to recommend Sean for his professionalism and would not hesitate to work with him again should we have another senior vacancy.

Foo Chek Wee

Vice President, HR

Sean is simply a brilliant Talent Acquisition leader. A good HR professional is one who has attained mastery in his or her respective functional domain. A great HR professional is one who combines skill mastery with a strong sense of purpose. The latter is how I accord Sean to be. I had worked with Sean on an assignment, and from that experience, I can testify that he not only does what a good Talent Acquisition leader would do, he would put in that extra 110% effort to ensure that the work is done well, no matter if it is the weekend or not. Sean has indeed won over my respect. He is simply one of the best!