Livinginexile Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasreeve17 Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginexile Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob4you Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginexile Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaka Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Is your requirement only for Bangkok area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginexile Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 Is your requirement only for Bangkok area? Yes Bangkok only at this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAceFace Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Post the jobs on jobsdrbdotcom should have no worries there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaihome Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJo Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginexile Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livinginexile Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandM Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaihome Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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