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Hiring Thai Office Staff

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For executive recruitment, you are usually best off performing that yourself, though you may want to ask for some advice along the way.

However, for secretarial and many other kinds of staff, you may want to skip the time-consuming advertising and interviewing process, and use our services, especially since our Thai staff are familiar with the different kinds of Thai people, their various backgrounds, and their suitability for jobs and working together in Thailand's class and seniority oriented culture.

Notably, you're sometimes more secure against various kinds of abuses, slack and coverups within your company if you pull in Thais from diverse backgrounds, rather than taking in staff brought on by the first high level managers you hire. Conspiracies and accountability problems abound here. However, it is also important that you hire staff who are compatible with each other, in order to create a stable corporate community and culture.

As veterans of Thailand, we have extensive experience working with Thais, and can help in recruiting and judging potential staff for a foreign company, for several reasons:

• We are familiar with the problems and issues that occur when foreigners hire Thai staff, and can prepare the Thai staff as well as the foreigner employer.
• We recognize the differences between Thai people and their different backgrounds in this class conscious society, and can match them into appropriate roles, as well as rule out potential problem employees.
• We can check their references, speaking Thai with Thai people and getting their essence.
• We know many good staff who were laid off by foreign companies after the 1997 financial crash, who are now underemployed and sometimes even unemployed. (Many foreign companies with overseas directors disposed of staff en masse.)
• We have an established referral network, whereby we can bring in known entities for roles appropriate to their backgrounds and outlooks.

Note: Subsequent to writing the above, the Thais we are long familiar with have already been placed. In screening prospective staff, we are now increasingly dependent upon referrals from our Thai associates, and advertising for new prospective staff in the various media. Nevertheless, we can still provide good recruitment services in several fields and kinds of work.

We also provide in-house group seminars as well as consulting to individual high level managers in orientation to Thailand and Thai culture by longtime veterans. In addition to expat staff, we also can give orientation to Thai staff on the differences between a foreign multinational and a Thai company. We cover customary ways of operating, expectations, what usually goes wrong, how to deal with particular situations, how to prevent problems and how to maintain a happy, productive and stable working environment.

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