Recruitment and why location is a key consideration

Recruitment and why location is a key consideration

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How to set up part of your business offshore and what to look for in an offshore staffing company. Why you should consider Vietnam, especially Ho Chi Minh city as the best location.

Setting up part of your business offshore can be daunting for some, however with the help of an offshore staffing solutions company who understands the local conditions and have expert recruiters ready to assist it doesn’t need to that difficult.

Offshore staffing is very similar to hiring one or more employees domestically. The only real difference is the offshore staffing facilitator is responsible not only for the recruiting of staff; it also becomes the operational management of your offshore team.

Once an offshore staffing company has been chosen an initial consultation is completed to assess your staffing requirements, job descriptions, and objectives, and a budget decided on. The offshore staffing company expert recruitment team will start looking for candidates who have the knowledge and skill set to fit the requirements for your offshore operational office.

Although offshore staffing is relatively new to SMEs, multinationals and large corporations have been using skilled offshore labour markets for some considerable time now. Accounting, Finance and IT are amongst the most common. It is difficult for many smaller businesses to find published information on the subject and to finding examples of best practice. The best way of overcoming this is by selecting the right business partnership and/or provider in the right geographic location. This can be the difference between success and the failure of the project.

Take for example remote staffing companies such as Remote Resources which was established by business people with invaluable experience and knowledge globally. Remote Resources multinational management structure means that they are experts in their field as they are in constant contact with businesses in regions such as North America, Europe, Middle East, Far East, South East Asia and Australasia. In their, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam location they specialise in the recruitment of staff in the digital consulting, software development, digital marketing, and media industry. They have found Vietnam and especially Ho Chi Minh City can offer the best value for their clients because of the availability of a highly skilled talented workforce that can produce the best return on investment for their clients.

The reason for such confidence in Vietnam as a location is that there is a lot of multinational tech companies that are working to develop the talent pipeline for the future. These companies have invested greatly in universities, high schools, local NGOs and foreign governments to build state-of-the-art modern educational programs and facilities.An example of this is the Higher Education Engineering Alliance Partnership (HEEAP). The $40 million program is aimed to improve technology education at Vietnam’s universities and was founded by Intel, the United States Agency for International Development and Arizona State University. Another notable program is Vietnam-German University (VGU), a technical school that recently received a $180 million loan from the World Bank to build a new campus for it’s12,000 students. With a large and growing computer science program, VGU aims to become a leading research university in Asia. The Vietnamese government also invests in IT education, provides tax benefits to software companies, finances software parks, and is investing to improve digital infrastructure.

The result of all this investment will ensure that Vietnam’s IT workforce stays current and valuable for foreign companies into the future.

Numerous studies by independent research and consulting firms rank Vietnam as one of the world’s most competitive and promising outsourcing destinations, so it is not surprising that it is the first choice for many as the perfect location for their offshore office locations.

Although offshore staffing is relatively new to SMEs, multinationals and large corporations have been using skilled offshore labour markets for some considerable time now. Accounting, Finance and IT are amongst the most common. It is difficult for many smaller businesses to find published information on the subject and to finding examples of best practice. The best way of overcoming this is by selecting the right business partnership and/or provider in the right geographic location. This can be the difference between success and the failure of the project. Numerous studies by independent research and consulting firms rank Vietnam as one of the world’s most competitive and promising outsourcing destinations, so it is not surprising that it is the first choice for many as the perfect location for their offshore office locations.