Specialist, not generalist
Consultants who operate inside their markets every day — fluent in the functions, sectors and seniority bands they serve, not spread thinly across all of them.
Premium Talent Advisory · APAC & Global
Connecting exceptional talent with exceptional opportunity.
Altera Talent Partners is a specialist talent advisory firm delivering tailored recruitment solutions across Executive Search, Permanent Recruitment and Talent Advisory throughout APAC and globally.
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Why Altera
A different standard of search.
We were founded on a simple conviction: that the most important hires deserve more than a transactional process. They deserve genuine expertise, rigour and judgement.
Research-led method
Every engagement begins with rigorous market mapping and talent intelligence, so shortlists are built on evidence rather than the contents of a database.
Discretion as standard
Confidential search handled with the care senior appointments demand — protecting candidates, clients and reputations throughout.
APAC depth, global reach
Rooted across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with the networks to deliver cross-border and international mandates.
Market Intelligence Explore salary guides
We read the market so you can move first.
Every Altera engagement is built on evidence — live data on availability, reward and competitor movement across APAC. The senior-hiring demand index below blends signals from all eight of our practices.
+5.8% Median base salary movement across APAC, 2025 → 2026
0.6× Qualified candidates per role in the tightest markets
11 wks Median time-to-appoint for retained executive mandates
Our Services
Three disciplines, one standard of excellence.
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Executive Search
Retained search for board, C-suite and senior leadership mandates, delivered through rigorous research, discreet engagement and evidence-based assessment.
Explore service → 02Permanent Recruitment
Contingent and engaged search for professional, technical and management roles, combining deep market networks with a structured, candidate-respectful process.
Explore service → 03Talent Advisory
Data-led advisory that maps markets, benchmarks reward, defines talent strategy and de-risks critical hiring decisions before a search begins.
Explore service → Industries We Serve
Deep expertise across the sectors that matter.
From boardroom appointments to specialist professional hires, our consultants bring sector fluency and a network built over years inside their markets.
Executive & Leadership
Board, C-suite and senior leadership appointments.
Human Resources & People & Culture
HR leadership, talent, reward and organisational development.
Finance & Accounting
CFOs, controllers, FP&A, audit, tax and treasury talent.
Business Support & Corporate Services
Executive support, operations and corporate enablement.
Engineering & Infrastructure
Engineering leadership, infrastructure and major projects.
Construction & Property
Development, construction, asset and property leadership.
Professional Services
Consulting, legal, advisory and partner-track talent.
Healthcare & Not-for-Profit
Clinical leadership, aged care, NFP and purpose-led roles.
Reward Intelligence · 2026
Salary guides worth downloading.
Visual, role-by-role base salary ranges, hiring-demand trends and talent-shortage analysis across eight practices — the benchmarks employers and candidates actually use.
Build the team that builds your future.
- Retained executive search for board and C-suite mandates
- Engaged permanent recruitment across professional and technical roles
- Market mapping, talent intelligence and reward benchmarking
- Confidential replacement and succession searches
Your next move, handled with care.
- Access to senior and executive mandates, many never advertised
- Honest, informed conversations about the market and your worth
- A respectful, well-managed process from first call to offer
- Career intelligence, salary guidance and long-term partnership
Search Jobs
Explore current opportunities.
Browse executive, management and specialist mandates across APAC — many of them confidential, most of them never advertised elsewhere.
Browse all rolesJoin a network built for the long term.
Register your interest, join industry-specific talent pools and receive curated roles, salary insights and market updates — long before they reach the open market.
Join the Talent Community →Intelligence that informs better decisions.
Our employer and candidate content hubs bring together salary guides, hiring trends and career guidance — written by people who live in these markets every day.
Explore Insights →Featured reading
Latest thinking from our consultants
Hiring Trends
The forces reshaping how organisations hire across APAC — and how the best employers are adapting.
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Executive Hiring Guide
Senior appointments carry outsized risk and reward. How to get executive hiring right.
Read → 2 min read
Interview Preparation Guide
A structured approach to preparing for interviews that lets your genuine capability come through.
Read → 2 min read
Selected Engagements
Outcomes, not just placements.
A sample of recent mandates, anonymised to protect client and candidate confidentiality — the standard every search is held to.
Chief Financial Officer, ASX-listed
A confidential succession mandate delivered a shortlist of four board-ready CFOs, three previously unknown to the client, with the appointee assessed on evidence and onboarded inside the quarter.
9 weeks brief to signed offer
Programme Director, major renewables
Targeted market mapping across a scarce power-systems talent pool produced a shortlist where every candidate progressed to interview — and a hire who declined two competing counter-offers.
100% shortlist-to-interview
Director of Clinical Services
A purpose-led search balanced clinical credibility with reform experience, presenting two outstanding, diverse finalists and placing a leader who has since lifted accreditation outcomes.
2 diverse finalists, both offered
APAC Coverage, Global Reach
Local presence where it counts.
Headquartered in Sydney with consultants across the region, Altera delivers searches throughout the Asia-Pacific and supports international assignments wherever our clients grow.
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Global mandates
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Let's discuss your next critical hire.
Whether you are building a leadership team or exploring your next executive move, our consultants bring the market intelligence and discretion the moment deserves.