Enterprise Through The Power Of Sisterhood
SME Magazine Singapore|Issue 24, 2021
Recruitment, or to give it the more glamourous name of headhunting, can be a daunting business to go into. Long hours, demanding employers, and equally demanding candidates can make it a hard slog.
Enterprise Through The Power Of Sisterhood

But for Shulin Lee and Helen Ng, they gave up cushy careers to found Ansa Search, a homegrown recruitment business for the legal, compliance, and risk management industry. This week, SME speaks to the two co-founders who took an idea and transformed it into an enterprise through the power of sisterhood.

WHAT WERE EACH OF YOUR BACKGROUNDS BEFORE FOUNDING ANSA SEARCH?

Shulin: I started out as a practicing lawyer with Allen & Gledhill, specializing in IP and tech law. Realizing quite early on that whilst I was passionate about the law; being a lawyer and reading law were two very separate things. It was difficult – as it was my childhood dream to be a lawyer. And when I started being a lawyer, I had to come to terms that it didn’t quite do it for me.

I had just given birth and before the closing discussion of my first client deal valued at S$40,000, I couldn’t help but consider my new reality. With a one-month-old at home and a breast pump in my bag, I was so nervous about the stakes at hand. By closing this deal, our journey as entrepreneurs of Ansa Search would potentially end before it even begins. I wondered if I had quit my stable job just to risk everything for failure.

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