We Need M&e And Office Staff!

[Livinginexile]

We are a global M&E company just setting up here in Thailand and for the past 3-4 months we have been trying to hire office and site staff. We have 2 major projects on the books and plenty of work for at least the next 5 years.

We are aiming to do as much in-house installation as posible.

Our main problem is finding English speaking engineering, office and site personell. Next week we will place an add in the Bangkok Post for an open day recruitment drive, hopefully this will provide results.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to find English speaking site and office staff? It seams to be a big problem here in Thailand.

[jasreeve17]

If you're willing to train them up then you could do an open day for fourth year students at one of the top English language universities. The entire, just graduated in English, Thai population seem to spend 90% of their time on facebook before enrolling on MA courses because they can't find a job. Can you put a very focussed add on facebook?

Just a thought, no flamming please...

Edited October 24, 2009 by jasreeve17

[Livinginexile]

If you're willing to train them up then you could do an open day for fourth year students at one of the top English language universities. The entire, just graduated in English, Thai population seem to spend 90% of their time on facebook before enrolling on MA courses because they can't find a job. Can you put a very focussed add on facebook?

Just a thought, no flamming please...

That's actually not a bad idea jasreeve and we are allready planning a training program for the near future.

But the problem is NOW!

We need competent, english speaking staff imediately, not in 2 years time.

Most of our positions available are for engineering, document control, safety, HR, IT, procurement... not for staff that learned their English skills from working in cafe's etc.

Edited October 24, 2009 by Livinginexile

[bob4you]

If you can supply work permits consider hiring Filipinos, they work almost as cheaply as Thais and don't need any retraining as their education and training is usually in english.

[Livinginexile]

If you can supply work permits consider hiring Filipinos, they work almost as cheaply as Thais and don't need any retraining as their education and training is usually in english.

After working in Dubai for many years with a lot of Filipino staff, I would gladly hire as many as I could.

But alas...it's the visa issue.

Even now we don't have enough Thai staff on the books to cover our expat work visa's.

We need THAI staff.

Thank you all for your enquires and later down the track we will need more expat managers but right now all we need is Thai's.

There is a lot of construction work in Bangkok and there is a shortage of good quality professionals, they are demanding and getting very high salaries.

Thanx for the post Bob, great idea if we could supply the work permits.

[Tanaka]

Is your requirement only for Bangkok area?

[Livinginexile]

Is your requirement only for Bangkok area?

Yes Bangkok only at this stage.

[TheAceFace]

Post the jobs on jobsdrbdotcom should have no worries there

[thaihome]

You will find almost no unemployed engineers and support type (as you describe) people these days in Thailand. Anyone you hire will already be employed and will have to give notice, usually 30 days, before they start another job. Also, now is a very bad time to get some one to start a new job, as if they leave for another job at this time of the year, they are forfeiting the year end bonus which is usually 1-3 months salary.

If you are indeed a major global player, take an out a full page add in the Post. You will get many responses.

TH

[MJo]

You could also use the bigger agencies. They usually have quite a lot of guys in their books. Good thing is that you can first do say 3 months deal and if the guy is good you can transfer to your own payroll. Just negotiate reasonable finders fee beforehand.

[Livinginexile]

You will find almost no unemployed engineers and support type (as you describe) people these days in Thailand. Anyone you hire will already be employed and will have to give notice, usually 30 days, before they start another job. Also, now is a very bad time to get some one to start a new job, as if they leave for another job at this time of the year, they are forfeiting the year end bonus which is usually 1-3 months salary.

If you are indeed a major global player, take an out a full page add in the Post. You will get many responses.

TH

you've hit the nail on the head, they usually need at least 30 days.

We are advertising an open day recruitment this week in The Nation & The Post.

Cheers

[Livinginexile]

You will find almost no unemployed engineers and support type (as you describe) people these days in Thailand. Anyone you hire will already be employed and will have to give notice, usually 30 days, before they start another job. Also, now is a very bad time to get some one to start a new job, as if they leave for another job at this time of the year, they are forfeiting the year end bonus which is usually 1-3 months salary.

If you are indeed a major global player, take an out a full page add in the Post. You will get many responses.

TH

Oh and BTW...

Thanx for the tip...I emailed them today.

[MandM]

just giving advice to future global enterprises looking to do thailand.

shouldnt you have checked this out beforehand? lots of capable people here who speak thai GO FIGGURE

im constantly disappointed at the english spoken here!

[thaihome]

you've hit the nail on the head, they usually need at least 30 days.

We are advertising an open day recruitment this week in The Nation & The Post.

Cheers

Not sure how an open day recruitment will work. We just usually ask for people to send in CV’s. We have done half and full page adds a couple times in the last 5 years, got a hundred or more CV’s each time, motly from marginal types, but with good screening was able to hire about 10%.

Hope it works out for you...

TH

Edited October 27, 2009 by thaihome