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Case Studies

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The Lane Crawford Joyce Group is a huge retail company that operates specialist department stores selling luxury goods in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Client Challenges

 

  • Difficulty in finding quality talent: The client struggled to locate engineers with technical & problem solving and Chinese/English language

  • Market experience: The client has limited hiring knowledge in Vietnam and Taiwan

  • Optimize costs: Looking to cut costs, but exploring offshore hiring

Second Talent Approach

 

  • Source the right talent with the right skill sets: Our technical TA team helped to search for candidates in Vietnam and Taiwan to fit the client's needs and requirements

  • End-to-end solution: ST helped the client to take care of HR administrative, employment contracts and payroll allowing the client to focus on its core business

The Results

 

  • Make the decision to build a remote team in Taiwan that fits their requirements

  • Strong tech team to support their regional expansion

  • Dedicated ST account manager to continue to understand client needs

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Branch8 builds e-commerce website and provides digital experience implementation services to Hong Kong enterprise clients. Clients such as Evisu, Francfranc and Hong Kong International Airport. 

Client Challenges

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  • Hard to find tech talent in Hong Kong: Didn’t have internal HR or TA team to help find talent

  • Migrate part of tech team to Vietnam and Taiwan: The client is looking for guidance to hire and do payroll in local markets

  • Help on cost savings in lower cost centers: The client is look to optimize its cost both onshore and offshore developers

Second Talent Approach

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  • Proposed to hire in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Taiwan. Project Managers in HK, while other design and development roles in TW and VN

  • Assisted and shared experience through our best practices on managing onshore and offshore teams

  • End to end recruitment & payroll solution in providing HR admin, employment contracts and payroll

The Results

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  • Hired a team of 50 across HK, TW and VN: Hired Project Managers, Product Managers, Designers, Front-end and Back-end Engineers and QAs

  • Recurring payroll management to optimize any admin work

  • Cost saving: Saved 50% for Vietnam and 25% for Taiwan versus Hong Kong

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Capture is a leading advanced analogue media digitisation service provider with multiple patent technologies. They are the leading Google Photos partner.

Client Challenges

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  • Specific Python developer requirements: Looking for Python specialized talent with ERP experience in lower cost center

  • Lack of experience in hiring & managing offshore talent: The client is looking for guidance in their first Vietnam hire

  • Limited knowledge of offshore hiring: The client has limited hiring knowledge in Vietnam and SEA.
     

Second Talent Approach

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  • Find the right technical skill set: Our VN Technical Talent Acquisition Team helped to screen the right candidate for our client

  • Full-suite solution for HR admin and payroll: ST helped the client to optimize and streamline their HR & admin work
     

The Results

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  • Made their 1st Vietnam hire in 3 weeks: Hired their 1st Python & ERP developer

  • Housed in ST’s Vietnam office: ST provides office space and parking for the client

  • 50% discount vs hiring locally in a high cost center (Hong Kong)

Beyond Cars is a leading Hong Kong secondary car marketplace and provides car loans services. 

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Client Challenges

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  • Challenging to looking for a Tech Lead in Hong Kong: Unfamiliar with the Taiwan market 

  • Insufficient familiarity with recruiting and managing overseas talent: The client is looking for guidance in their first Vietnam hire

  • Require immediate help on technical hiring: The client is scaling up and requires a Tech Lead

Second Talent Approach

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  • Find the right Tech Lead with leadership, technical and Chinese language capability

  • Share offshore hiring best practices on first hire and how to scale your team

  • Quick full-suite package to manage HR admin, documentation and payroll

The Results

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  • Hired 1st Taiwan Tech Lead in 4 weeks: Hired their Tech Lead to spearhead their product and implementation plan

  • Recurring payroll management which includes payroll, insurance, pension, etc.

  • Cost saving: Saved 25% of cost versus Hong Kong

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