About Us

JP Associates is the brainchild of Jeff and Pam, both of whom have a combined experience of over 12 years in the recruitment and marketing business in Malaysia. Our mission is to connect amazing companies in the Asian region with the best talent in the IT industry.

This is Jeff

This is Jeff

Jeff Goh's name has been famously associated with quality IT recruitment in the KL scene since 2010.With a MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and over 7 years of experience in developing businesses in the IT industry, Jeff is the #1 go-to-consultant for all things IT recruitment related. His specialties include business development, operations, people and stakeholder management.

In the past 5 years, Jeff has won multiple accolades in recruitment, including being the first Asian to win the coveted Peoplebank Aspire Awards in 2015 as the General Manager and multiple-time winner for overachieving quarterly and annual targets at Robert Walters as the IT team manager.

Traits: Penang island boy; soft-spoken, deep-voiced, sophisticated humour with a love of whisky and always doing the right thing by clients and candidates.

This is Pam

This is Pam

Pam fell in love with teaching herself how to code in HTML and JavaScript at the age of 13 and has never looked back. She graduated First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from Monash University, Australia and spent the first 5 years of her career working on discipline, quality control and gemba kaizen at a die-casting factory in Port Klang. She has since become a multi-award-winning copywriter, marketing manager, accounts manager and advisor on internal recruitment drives for software companies in Kuala Lumpur.

Traits: Small town Klang girl who loves coffee, is prone to laughing too loudly and loves learning about new coding languages and processes "just for fun".

What we do

Permanent Recruitment

JP Associates recruits in all areas of IT including; Development, Infrastructure, Architecture, Management, Web and QA. 97% of our clientele are MSC-status multinationals seeking the most talented IT specialists in the country.

Mid-Level and Senior Level Appointments

JP Associates are also experienced in sourcing for talented individuals outside the IT market to suit the business needs of the client. Our database of thousands of candidates offers an unparalleled solution to ensure that only the very best and most suited talent is placed in leadership and senior management positions, critical roles which are crucial for time-sensitive projects.

Local Presence, Global Reach

Start Up Consultancy

Malaysia has become one of Southeast Asia's most attractive investment hub, especially in the IT-related industry. First-class infrastructure, a productive multilingual speaking workforce, stable political environment and a well-developed system as well as incentives such as MSC-status for tax exemption have attracted high-value investors from around the globe. JP Associates is the perfect consulting partner to help foreign companies establish and recruit the right talent for their Malaysian offices.

Candidate Profiling and Assessment

How do you define "good chemistry" between a client and candidate? JP Associates can provide psychometric profiling and assessment to assess a candidate's technical ability, personality and behaviour of potential candidates prior to interview selection. To ensure a high happiness rating for both candidate and client, we also take into consideration the best work culture or environment the talent would be suited for.

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