Job Website

[ruds]

I thought it might be a good idea to create a list of websites where forgeiners can look for work in Thailand

thaivisa.com

workthailand.com

howtoworkinthailand.com

jobthai.com

jobs4farangs.com

these are ones that I have found so far

[TheAceFace]

jobsdb.com is pretty good.

[toptuan]

CAVEAT TO THE OP

workthailand.com is non-functional

Be careful with the website howtoworkinthailand.com. It's mostly a self-serving website (serves the webmaster's goals, not yours). There are an inordinate number pages and links which will dump you into spyware/adware downloads. I once responded to one of these links ("OpinionPaycheck"), and took the application-survey, which resulted in my email box being flooded with 400-500 spam messages a day. Complaints to the company and Better Business Bureau brought no results. The company continues to operate with impunity, destroying the functionality of countless email clients.

Edited April 3, 2008 by toptuan

[toptuan]

A third website given to us by the OP: http://www.jobs4farangs.com/ is not up and running.

I'm beginning to suspect the OP's intentions or thoroughness of research before posting information on ThaiVisa.

[ruds]

bangkok post website has a few positions for expats as well.

[CaptainNemo]

bangkok post website has a few positions for expats as well.

...not loads though... and far too many that say "Thai only"!

This is a bit worrying... I filled in a thing for "workthailand.com" - it did seem quite plausible, but as soon as it became apparent that they wanted £75 to even let you look at listings, obviously I didn't bother.

There are lessons here...

There really is a division between "english teacher"/"student jobs" and "executive"/"proper jobs"

For the former you probably don't need a website; for the latter, you only really want to look at "proper" international recruitment agencies like BBT... and maybe some of these:

http://www.thaiwebsites.com/recruitment.asp

Truthfully though, it strikes me that you want to do your research about what transnational companies are in the LLE (Land of the Lotus Eaters = Thailand) by looking at industrial estates through the Thai Board of Investment site and try and get a job in them in your own country and spend a couple of years trying to get into their Thailand operations.

Either way, the sort of "proper jobs" (usually you see advertised in Thailand (that don't say Thai nationals only) tend to want reasonable experience abroad before you're much use to them.

...or you can take the easy route and be an English teacher for 20-30,000 baht a month... which won't leave you much in the way of savings.

Frankly, unless you're retiring; and unless you're well invested back home, I don't see the point in spending much of your working life in Thailand (or any where else in Asia... Japan being a favourite) on what is essentially an extended holiday, unless you are making enough money to save up more than you could back home.

I mean I reckon in the UK at the moment, for the average youngish worker, it's probably only possible to save about £2,000-3,000 a year at a stretch, such is the cost of living. To exceed that, you need to be saving at least 15,000 baht a month, assuming you have living costs of minimum 20,000 baht a month (which is pretty tight isn't it really)... but to make life reasonably agreeable over there (and thus worth the effort), I reckon 60,000 baht a month is a sensible minimum, which is like a Thai's good middle manager wage in a decent foriegn company i reckon.

I mean I hear anecdotally that some teachers exceed that (excluding those with B.Eds who work for huge wages at posh foreign schools in thailand); but it seems to me that you really urinating into a gale unless you sort out a foreign-level income from a foreign company... there are no shortcuts really (despite what the various expat Del-boys might tell you)... I'm convinced that you need the same sort of experience/training/qualifications as you would if you were trying to emmigrate to Australia or somewhere... backed up by thorough research of the state of the specific sectors of Thai industry that you're interested in... then you could really mint it.

All my searches of sites like Jobs DB too often yeild "Thais only"; but you can sometimes find some that don't - foreign companies... but I doubt they offer enough money to make it a wise long-term prospect... you probably need more than holiday Thai language skills too (though perhaps not full literacy).

Returning the point though... I tend to regard "Recruitment Consultants" in the UK as being down there with the likes of Estate Agents and Wheel Clampers for contributions to humanity... even the more specialist ones treat you with an air of contempt it seems... why would it be any better in country where it's legal to be "ethnicist", "ageist", and "sexist"?

It seems to me to be a road to frustration; and perhaps a bit of denial that you can somehow "make it" in Thailand without working for a foreign transnational on a British wage.

[ruds]

jobs4farangs.com is up and going now

bangkok post website has a few positions for expats as well.

...not loads though... and far too many that say "Thai only"!

This is a bit worrying... I filled in a thing for "workthailand.com" - it did seem quite plausible, but as soon as it became apparent that they wanted £75 to even let you look at listings, obviously I didn't bother.

There are lessons here...

There really is a division between "english teacher"/"student jobs" and "executive"/"proper jobs"

For the former you probably don't need a website; for the latter, you only really want to look at "proper" international recruitment agencies like BBT... and maybe some of these:

http://www.thaiwebsites.com/recruitment.asp

Truthfully though, it strikes me that you want to do your research about what transnational companies are in the LLE (Land of the Lotus Eaters = Thailand) by looking at industrial estates through the Thai Board of Investment site and try and get a job in them in your own country and spend a couple of years trying to get into their Thailand operations.

Either way, the sort of "proper jobs" (usually you see advertised in Thailand (that don't say Thai nationals only) tend to want reasonable experience abroad before you're much use to them.

...or you can take the easy route and be an English teacher for 20-30,000 baht a month... which won't leave you much in the way of savings.

Frankly, unless you're retiring; and unless you're well invested back home, I don't see the point in spending much of your working life in Thailand (or any where else in Asia... Japan being a favourite) on what is essentially an extended holiday, unless you are making enough money to save up more than you could back home.

I mean I reckon in the UK at the moment, for the average youngish worker, it's probably only possible to save about £2,000-3,000 a year at a stretch, such is the cost of living. To exceed that, you need to be saving at least 15,000 baht a month, assuming you have living costs of minimum 20,000 baht a month (which is pretty tight isn't it really)... but to make life reasonably agreeable over there (and thus worth the effort), I reckon 60,000 baht a month is a sensible minimum, which is like a Thai's good middle manager wage in a decent foriegn company i reckon.

I mean I hear anecdotally that some teachers exceed that (excluding those with B.Eds who work for huge wages at posh foreign schools in thailand); but it seems to me that you really urinating into a gale unless you sort out a foreign-level income from a foreign company... there are no shortcuts really (despite what the various expat Del-boys might tell you)... I'm convinced that you need the same sort of experience/training/qualifications as you would if you were trying to emmigrate to Australia or somewhere... backed up by thorough research of the state of the specific sectors of Thai industry that you're interested in... then you could really mint it.

All my searches of sites like Jobs DB too often yeild "Thais only"; but you can sometimes find some that don't - foreign companies... but I doubt they offer enough money to make it a wise long-term prospect... you probably need more than holiday Thai language skills too (though perhaps not full literacy).

Returning the point though... I tend to regard "Recruitment Consultants" in the UK as being down there with the likes of Estate Agents and Wheel Clampers for contributions to humanity... even the more specialist ones treat you with an air of contempt it seems... why would it be any better in country where it's legal to be "ethnicist", "ageist", and "sexist"?

It seems to me to be a road to frustration; and perhaps a bit of denial that you can somehow "make it" in Thailand without working for a foreign transnational on a British wage.

[chiangmaibruce]

I find it extremely frustrating that the people who run the thai recruitment web sites don't include a search criteria for jobs for which non-thais can apply. You waste so much time flicking from one the next to see in the fine print (thai national only) .... or nothing at all .... in which case you have no idea whether it is worth appraching them (usually not).

It would be so easy for them to have a tick box with each new listing asking the company whether they could or would consider application from farang.

I have emailed this suggestion to 2-3 of these web sites incl jobsdb, but surprise, surprise - no response.