How to become an executive search consultant
Official title: Executive search consultant
Also called: Information technology (IT) recruiter, Recruitment consultant, Recruitment consultant
Executive search consultant provides suitable candidates to employers according to the specific job profiles requested. He/she conducts tests and interviews with job seekers, shortlists potential candidates for employers and matches these candidates to appropriate jobs. He/she also maintains relationships with employers to offer his/her services on a more long-term basis.
Main tasks
- Providing consultancy services on personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
Ways in
- University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore
- University: Computing & IT degrees, Offered by 5 universities in Singapore
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $68,508 a year. The middle half earn $57,000 to $96,000 a year.
- Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Human resource consultant (excluding executive search consultant)
- Personnel/Human resource officer
- Industrial relations officer
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Questions people ask
How do I become an executive search consultant?
Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees; Computing & IT degrees.
How much does an executive search consultant earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $68,508 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $57,000 to $96,000.
Will AI change the work of an executive search consultant?
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026