INTERVIEW WITH MR. HOANG VAN NAM – HEADHUNT VIETNAM

March 17, 2024

1. Kindly tell us something about your work profile/business including yourself.

Headhunt Vietnam from 2011 to 2020, our assets include 90% of foreign companies as our clients
and10% of growing local companies. To further develop our strengths, we have established a corporate
mandate to maintain strong core values that reflect our philosophy.

Having served more than 500 corporate clients, including multinational companies and large local
companies operating in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the past, we have continuously updated the
market and carried out internal training to best meet the needs of our clients.

10 years of contributing to the recruitment of several organization by conducting hundreds of executive
searches across Vietnam and Asia Pacific countries, Headhunt Vietnam is proud to become a leading
placement and HR consulting company representing the industries of Oil & Gas, FMCG & Manufacturing,
Logistics, and IT in Vietnam.

Apart from supporting our clients in gathering the matching pieces, we play the role of an advisor on
board to help over 1 million job seekers by delivering consultancy to the preparation of candidates for a
more confident performance of candidates.

2. What made you / your company decided to develop in Europe market?
Headhunt Vietnam is a professional consulting firm with many years of experience in providing services.
We understand the European market and have the ability to exploit new opportunities. We always ensure
the highest quality and constantly develop and innovate.

3. How has your professional career or your company’s career developed since then?
Since I set up Headhunt Vietnam nearly 10 years ago, I have dream to find Partner who will help me up
our company level in Vietnam Country and Worldwide. I have been contacting with number of person and
company in Asia and US. Luckily for me when I have opportunity to meet Mr. Ralph Spangenberg, we
have same though and he is really strong background in HR, Leadership and Entrepreneur mindset. He
is supporting to me and Headhunt Vietnam with numbers of top German clients in Vietnam and German
country.

Internal Consultants are valuable to the whole team of Headhunt Vietnam who provides qualified
performance and greatest services to clients. Moreover, our leading consultants are always working with
a be-ready attitude towards the mission of serving and supporting clients.

4. As far as your sector stands today, what services Headhunt offers to their clients?
Headhunt Vietnam providing Innovative and Sustainable solutions. Executive Headhunters are expert at
identifying rare candidates and attracting them to your business. We employ an innovative and
transparent process on every headhunting assignment undertaken to ensure exceptional results. This
process works effectively whether we are headhunting a Finance Director for a large corporate, a Sales
Director for a start-up, or a Managing Director for an SME, plus everything in between.
Headhunt Vietnam are offering services:
• Retained search services
• Interim, Management, Solutions
• Payroll Services
• Outplacement services

5. What do you think are the biggest challenges for this sector in the future?
The year 2023 has been experiencing economic fluctuations globally, making the outlook for the
global labor market uncertain and affecting Vietnam.

Vietnam’s labor market in the context of prolonged and overlapping impacts such as the Covid-19
pandemic, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the decline in world aggregate demand have
caused many businesses to experience a decline in revenue.

Hundreds of thousands of workers had their working hours reduced, lost their jobs, and their lives
were affected. Pressure from businesses to lay off workers creates a strong shift of labor from the
industrial and construction sectors to the service sector and other sectors. The outlook for the global
labor market in 2023 has not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels, remaining very uncertain.
In the current volatile market context, Candidates have work experience, adaptability, problem
solving, collaboration skills, analytical thinking, creative thinking, resilience, flexibility and agility are
prioritized by businesses for recruitment.

Headhunt Vietnam will need to build a more professional staff in the process of working with
businesses and searching for candidates. Follow the requirements of the desired Enterprise, build a
candidate screening process that meets the candidate’s work experience, analytical and adaptive
skills. Headhunt Vietnam is not just a service provider, moreover, Headhunt Vietnam wants to
become a bridge that brings solutions, providing businesses with the most suitable candidates, and
vice versa Headhunt Vietnam wants to provide candidates with the right environment work
professionally, promoting their experience.

6. What type of promotional and communication campaigns do you work on?
We are active in all social media in Vietnam such as LinkedIn, Facebook and we conduct activities
with different groups to showcase and promote our service.
Everything always begins with a conversation, where we normally try our best to identify shared goals
and values. Building a common vision is a determinant factor, which together with our professional
commitment and expertise will help immensely to bring success to a project.

7. What is your advice to companies interested in your services?
We offer services depending on our clients’ needs, so let us figure out how we can help you.

8. Please tell us a little about future plans of your company in Vietnam.
We always value the quality of our products and services as the foundation for sustainable
development. We constantly seek and cooperate with reputable partners in domestic and
international markets to deliver the highest value to our customers. We also regularly monitor market
trends and invest in a professional and enthusiastic staff to ensure service quality.

Many thanks to Mr. Hoang Van Nam for sharing your experience with us.