Hi all

I am recruiting for Thai IT staff at the moment - I advertised in the Nation (& their Thai sister papers) & the Bangkok Post. Contacted some agencies too.

I need about 13 people to add to a team of 20.

The thing is - we usually get 300+ candidates when we recruit - we advertised in late November but have had very little response - maybe 80 applicants.

Someone has suggested that people are hanging on until the end of the year (for bonuses)...

Anyone got any advice on this - is it seasonal ? Am I advertising in the wrong place ?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

Pedro

I don't "know" for sure, but in the US, very little hiring is done over the Holiday season (TG to Xmas) as big decisions are postponed until the holiday business (presents, party planning/inviting) is past.

My experience advertising in many markets is there is often a seasonal component to ad planning.

Actually, 80 applicants is better than I would have expected. If you can't afford to keep the ad continual, you could cut the frequency in half or quarter until Jan 3.

hi,

Yes, it is seasonal. But also, I suggest to hire IT ppl from the place they hang mostly - web sites. Some JobsDB, JobTopGun and so on. Will work just fine for your recruitment plans. And thai IT staff don't read Bangkok Post and Nation as much as they seek for job on InterNet.

And, if you don't want to waste your time with interviews with fony "super IT programmers" - try recruitment agency to screen them for you for fee.

It can be really boring to interview "MS Windows, MS Office, Access, Oracle, PHP, HTML, XML, Excel, Photoshop, Adobe, MS SQL, C#, C++, VB, etc" just to find out it's a fraud. So, I suggest agency instead. There are few really good.

Good luck

Can't comment on the IT specific questions or where to look, but I would certainly agree that a lot of locals will not move now......most companies (or at least my company ) require them to be employed over the year end to qualify for their '13th month' bonus.

It’s fairly slow for us in the recruiting industry this time of year. People do hang on to their jobs just long enough to get that end of year bonus. However, that hasn’t stopped a high number of decent IT specialists from walking through my doors recently. Just today I had a professor of computer engineering at a Thai university stop by in hopes of finding a job as an IT/networking manager.

If it’s your own Thai IT staff you’re looking for, then I’d recommend advertising in Thai newspapers instead of English newspapers. You’re always more than welcome to search through my collection of IT candidates at www.alink.co.th/ResumeSearch.php. Send an email to [email protected] if you'd like me to find you someone with specific qualifications.

(A-Link Recruitment)

IT people do not look for jobs in newspapers.

Advertise on the net and get them screened through an agency as a previous poster mentioned.

I am recruiting for Thai IT staff at the moment - I advertised in the Nation (& their Thai sister papers) & the Bangkok Post. Contacted some agencies too.

Sunbelt told me about www.jobthai.com

Very good - and cheap. Only problem is that many applicants simply push the bottum without understanding that only applications in English will be accepted.

Anyway, I reject that emails with a standard text...