ABOUT US
HiringtoHired.com — Singapore's Engineering, Construction & Oil and Gas Career Platform
WE WERE BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Most job platforms are built by technologists who spotted a market gap. HiringtoHired.com was built by someone who spent over a decade inside the gap itself.
Our founder ran a specialist engineering recruitment agency in Singapore for years — placing civil engineers on infrastructure projects, process engineers in petrochemical facilities, HSE officers on construction sites, and offshore specialists across the oil and gas corridor that runs through Southeast Asia. Every day, the same problem surfaced in a different form.
The engineering and construction sector was papering over this failure with specialist recruiters, WhatsApp networks, and word-of-mouth referrals between project managers who had worked the same sites for years. It worked. It was expensive, slow, and impossible to scale.
HiringtoHired.com is the infrastructure that replaces the workaround.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe that in a sector as technically demanding as engineering, construction, and oil and gas, the match between a candidate and a role should be determined by credentials, project experience, and sub-discipline expertise — not by keyword coincidence.
We believe that a Professional Engineer licence, a BizSAFE accreditation, a CSWIP certification, and a BOSIET offshore survival qualification are not footnotes. They are the primary signals of professional competence in this sector and deserve to be treated as searchable, verifiable, first-class data.
We believe that what an engineer has built is more informative than where they have been employed. A project portfolio tells a hiring manager more in two minutes than a conventional CV tells them in twenty.
We believe that salary transparency reduces friction and improves outcomes for everyone. When candidates and employers share access to the same market benchmark data — calibrated to discipline and seniority using Singapore's official occupational wages figures — the negotiation is shorter, the attrition is lower, and the hire is faster.
And we believe that Singapore's engineering, construction, and oil and gas sectors deserve a platform that was genuinely built for them.
THE PROBLEM WE ARE SOLVING
Singapore's construction sector is projected to sustain elevated demand for years ahead. Billions of dollars of committed infrastructure output are in the pipeline. The cranes are up. The contracts are signed.
The talent pipeline is under pressure.
Industry data points to a manpower shortfall of nearly 15% across Singapore's construction sector. The vacancy rate for skilled engineering and safety roles is higher still. Critical positions remain open for months. Projects fall behind schedule — not from lack of work, but from lack of the right people in the right positions at the right time.
The oil and gas sector faces its own version of the same challenge. Singapore's petrochemical cluster and the broader regional energy corridor demand a technically specialised workforce whose credential requirements — OPITO, CSWIP, BOSIET, GWO, offshore medical certifications — are entirely invisible to the matching logic of any generalist platform.
HiringtoHired.com exists because the norm is not good enough.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Built Around Credentials, Not Just Titles
Every engineering professional on HiringtoHired.com builds a profile structured around the signals that actually matter in technical hiring. Professional certifications — PE licences, BizSAFE levels, CSWIP, BOSIET, OPITO, MOM-registered qualifications — are structured, searchable profile fields. Employers discover candidates by credential, not by guesswork.
Project Portfolios as Primary Profile Data
We give engineering and construction professionals the ability to document their project history in structured form — project type, contract value, role scope, and key deliverables. What a professional has built is visible to employers from the first search result, not buried in a PDF that may never be opened.
Sub-Discipline Matching That Reflects Reality
Civil is not civil. Mechanical is not mechanical. Our matching engine operates at the sub-discipline level — distinguishing between foundation engineering and structural engineering, between rotating equipment and HVAC, between process safety and plant operations. Employers find candidates whose specific technical background aligns with the role. Candidates find opportunities that genuinely fit their expertise.
Salary Benchmarks Grounded in Official Data
Salary ranges on HiringtoHired.com are calibrated against Singapore's official government occupational wages data, disaggregated by engineering discipline and seniority level. Candidates negotiate from an informed position. Employers make offers that qualified candidates accept.
Singapore-Anchored, Regionally Aware
We are built for Singapore's regulatory and professional framework — COMPASS, Employment Pass salary criteria, Fair Consideration Framework compliance, and BCA and PEB registration requirements. We extend naturally to the cross-border talent flows across Malaysia, Indonesia, and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
WHO WE SERVE
Engineering Professionals
Civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, chemical, process, environmental, biomedical, and mechatronics engineers at every career stage — from polytechnic and university graduates entering the workforce to Professional Engineer-registered specialists with decades of project delivery behind them.
Construction and Built Environment Professionals
Project managers, site engineers, quantity surveyors, contracts managers, building services engineers, M&E coordinators, and the broader community of professionals who deliver Singapore's infrastructure and development pipeline.
Oil, Gas, and Energy Specialists
Offshore operations professionals, subsea engineers, integrity engineers, pipeline engineers, FPSO specialists, HSE managers, and energy transition engineers working across Singapore's petrochemical cluster and the wider regional energy corridor.
Employers and Hiring Teams
Engineering consultancies, EPC contractors, property developers, petrochemical operators, government agencies, and specialist firms who need a more efficient path to technically qualified candidates than generalist platforms can provide.
OUR STORY
HiringtoHired.com was founded in Singapore by a recruitment professional who had spent over two decades placing technical talent across the engineering, construction, and oil and gas sectors.
The founding insight was not a technology observation. It was an industry observation: the existing platforms were not built for this sector, and the sector had accepted that as a permanent condition. Specialist recruiters were the workaround. Premium fees were the cost of doing business. Months-long search timelines were the norm for critical technical roles.
The founding question was straightforward: what would this market look like if the matching infrastructure was built correctly from the start — with the right data model, the right credential fields, the right matching logic, and the right understanding of how technical careers in engineering and construction actually progress?
HiringtoHired.com is the answer to that question.
We launched in Singapore because the problem is most acute and measurable there — a city-state with one of the world's most concentrated infrastructure investment pipelines, a government-acknowledged engineering talent shortage, and an employment regulatory framework sophisticated enough to reward platforms that get the data right.
We are building toward the broader Southeast Asian market because the talent flows that define this sector do not stop at national borders. HiringtoHired.com follows the talent.
JOIN US
If you are an engineering, construction, or oil and gas professional in Singapore — your profile is free. It will always be free. Build it today and let the right opportunities find you.
If you are an employer or hiring manager looking for technical talent in Singapore's built environment or energy sector — post your first role free and discover what a platform built for your sector actually feels like.
If you are an investor, a strategic partner, or someone who sees what we see in this market — we would welcome the conversation.
Hiring starts here. Careers are built here.
www.hiringtohired.com
Our Team
HiringToHired was built by a dedicated team committed to transforming recruitment for Singapore's engineering and construction sectors.
Leadership
Sendra Kerherve, Founder
Tran Vu Viet Anh, Managing Director
Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, Head of Business Development
Hoang Le Quan, Solution Director
Development
Nguyen Van Manh, Fullstack Developer
Tran Quang Hieu, Fullstack Developer
We thank our team for their dedication in building Singapore's only platform tailored to the engineering and construction sectors.
Developers: https://bachasoftware.com
