Catalyse Founders Group: Seeking Founding Partners & Ambitious Head Hunters for Hong Kong & Singapore

An invitation to high-performing recruitment professionals ready to build something of their own.

Are you an accomplished recruiter within a large, established firm, yet find yourself questioning the model? Do you feel the pressure of monthly KPIs and the constant churn of candidates who don't truly fit, leading to wasted time for both you and your clients? Perhaps you are exhausted by the gossip, the politics, and the whispered comparisons between desks that drain your energy and substitute for genuine mentorship. If you believe that the future of recruitment lies not in volume or toxic office dynamics, but in focused, professional, and well-run boutique practices, then we have built the solution you are looking for.

First Capital Asia's Catalyse Founders Group is founded on the conviction that the age of the large, impersonal recruitment company is over. We are selectively recruiting exceptional recruitment professionals in Hong Kong and Singapore across two distinct tracks: Founding Partners and Ambitious Head Hunters. This is a structured ecosystem designed to transition ambitious professionals from consistent billers to sustainable business owners, underpinned by a proprietary coaching methodology.

Two Paths to Ownership

Who We Are Looking For

Whether you are a ten-year veteran or a rising star, we engage with professionals who have reached a point of honest self-reflection: the targets are being met, the foundations are decent, yet something is holding the next level at bay. That ceiling has a name. We call it the Natural Limit.

The Natural Limit is not a deficit of effort or talent. It is the product of internal and corporate cultural patterns that even the most capable recruiters carry — patterns that, left unaddressed, quietly cap performance regardless of market conditions or seniority. The gossip-fuelled, politically charged environment of a large agency actively reinforces these patterns.

Through our Eternal Question coaching framework, we work with our partners and head hunters to identify and dismantle these barriers directly. The four most common patterns we encounter are corporate cultural related, inducing:

If you recognise yourself in any of these, you are precisely the calibre of person this partnership is built for.

The Partnership & Growth Model

This is a shared-risk, shared-reward structure designed to develop executionary power. Our Founding Partners are co-founders of their own business unit; our Head Hunters operate with the autonomy of a principal-in-training.

What you will receive:

• Mentorship through the Eternal Question framework — A rigorous, structured programme designed to break through your Natural Limit and develop the mindset of a principal, not a consultant.
• A defined path to ownership — A clear, milestone-based journey toward running a profitable, independently scalable recruitment business (immediate for Partners; performance-based for Head Hunters).
• Access to a peer network — A select cohort of like-minded professionals across the region, providing accountability, collaboration, and shared market intelligence without the toxic politics.
• Institutional infrastructure — The operational, compliance, and commercial foundations of an established group, without the overhead of building them from scratch.

Candidate Profile

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a concise, confidential covering letter to inquiries@firstcapital.asia addressing three points:

1. 1.Which track you are applying for (Founding Partner or Head Hunter) and why this model represents the right next step for you, rather than a conventional career progression.
2. 2.What to you is an Eternal Question in the recruitment industry?
3. 3.Which of the four Natural Limit patterns most closely describes a constraint you have personally experienced, and how you have attempted to address it.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We are building this group selectively and deliberately — quality of fit matters far more than volume.

We look forward to a candid conversation.

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