Achieve Group is a recruitment agency headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Malaysia and China. Founded in 1990, the company provides executive search, specialist recruitment and business support staffing, along with contract and temporary manpower solutions, immigration and corporate expansion advisory, and Employer of Record services for employers building teams across Asia Pacific.
Search, Selection and Placement
Achieve Group's recruitment work is organised into three placement service lines, each aimed at a different level and type of hire:
- Executive Search — search and selection for senior appointments.
- Specialist Recruitment — recruitment for functional, technical and industry-specific roles.
- Business Support Staffing — staffing for administrative, operational and support functions.
Across all three lines the company works to connect employers with candidates whose experience fits the team and the role being filled.
Temps and Contracts
A separate division tailors short-term and flexible staffing arrangements so that employers can scale their workforce up or down as workloads change. The service covers professional contract staff, short-term temps and seasonal manpower. Contract and temporary placements are handled alongside permanent recruitment, allowing an employer to use a single agency for both permanent and flexible hiring.
Immigration and Corporate Expansion
Achieve Group advises companies and entrepreneurs on entering and expanding within ASEAN and the wider Asian market, combining corporate expansion consultancy with immigration and visa work. Its investment and immigration teams operate from Singapore, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
- Corporate and business expansion — support with setting up regional headquarters, manufacturing facilities and management offices.
- Personal and family relocation — assistance with visa and permanent resident applications, and with education programme planning and school admissions for relocating families.
- Strategic market study and entry — market studies and investigations to identify markets that match a client's business goals, including opportunities for horizontal and vertical expansion.
- Facilitation of overseas direct investment — acting as managing partner through planning and implementation.
- End-to-end facilitation in the target market — company incorporation for private limited companies and partnerships, operational support in company secretarial, accounting and taxation matters, and talent acquisition to build a local team.
Immigration work includes market entry and expansion advisory, employment pass and immigration applications, and regulatory and licensing advisory.
Employer of Record
Achieve Group also acts as an Employer of Record (EOR) for companies entering the Singapore market. Under an EOR arrangement the provider is the legal employer while the client company generally directs day-to-day business activities, which allows a business to hire and pay staff before it is ready to establish its own local entity. The service covers hiring of talent, contract management and payroll management, and is designed to pair with the company's recruitment services so that hiring and employment administration sit with one provider.
An EOR arrangement typically suits market entry, small teams and businesses testing local demand, while establishing a Singapore entity creates a permanent corporate structure that carries its own corporate administration obligations and greater direct operating control. The two approaches are aimed at different stages of expansion rather than at replacing one another.
Industries of Specialisation
Achieve Group recruits across the following sectors:
- Banking & Financial Services
- Energy & Commodities
- Built Environment & Real Estate
- Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare
- Information & Communications Technology
- Manufacturing & Engineering
- Professional Services
- Retail, FMCG, MICE
- Supply Chain Management
Company Background
Achieve Group was founded in 1990 and has operated in the Asia Pacific human resources and recruitment market for more than 35 years. It is led by founder and CEO Yim Kin Yee, who has spent more than three decades in the recruitment industry and has guided the business through the Asian Financial Crisis, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the SARS crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. The company is recognised by government agencies for its commitment to quality service and received the Singapore Prestige Brand Award in 2021.
From its Singapore headquarters and its offices in Malaysia and China, the company serves employers ranging from multinational corporations to local enterprises, and provides both permanent placement and flexible manpower, together with immigration, corporate expansion and Employer of Record support. Corporate, staffing and salary insights are published for employers planning recruitment.
Achieve Group maintains a public notice warning that fraudulent job offers are circulating under its name, and directs candidates to verify the details of any offer through its hotline on 6323 0050.
Further information on the company's services and consultations is available at achievegroup.asia.