If you are still looking for a job, you can check out JobsDB, where many professional jobs are posted online.
LinkedIn is also popular and local recruiters tend to use it to find new staff, especially for managerial and above positions. Keeping your profile up to date, and showing you’re in Bangkok is recommended. Think a bit about what keywords recruiters might use when trying to find someone for a position you might be interested in and be sure to add them to your profile.
Offline, there’s Bangkok Post as well as a number of recruitment agencies, with PRTR being a large recruitment agency.
The biggest challenge is to find jobs that offer a work permit to foreigners. Your best bet is to look at Bangkok companies in the tech sector and regional employers with Thailand roles, such as Lazada, which lists openings on its careers site.
Other web companies with career pages for Thailand or regional roles include Expedia Group, Agoda, and aCommerce.
JobsDB Thailand
JobsDB is one of the main job portals in Thailand. There are a variety of jobs that you can find in JobsDB, and the best way to do that is by customizing your search by job title, location, job function, and salary range.
Your search options can be expanded by work type, career level, company, salary range, and other filters available on the site. As it is one of Thailand and Asia’s leading job search sites, the results can be overwhelming.
The great thing about JobsDB is that you can set up job alerts based on your search terms. Setting up an alert helps a lot because you get email updates for jobs with your chosen job titles and keywords, depending on the number of job categories and keywords you’ve set up.
Jobs available for foreigners in JobsDB vary. Some job posts say whether a job is for “Thai nationals” or “open to foreigners.”
The thing that could discourage anyone from using JobsDB is that most responses to applications are slow and infrequent compared to other job sites. Although there is a tracking function for jobs you’ve applied for, response from the recruiters who post on the site seems rather slow in coming.
Although JobsDB is where you may land your first job, you should expand your choices. You might apply for positions such as Financial Research Analyst, Marketing Assistant and Personal Assistant for a Real Estate Business that don’t require a foreigner to fill such positions.
As a result, you’ll end up not having a lot of requests for an interview, but having a large number of sent items.
Not until you move to Thailand will you see the value of maintaining a LinkedIn profile. Through LinkedIn, you can land jobs and get speedy responses from recruiters. There are a few ways that help you make the most out of LinkedIn. Here are some suggestions for everyone looking to find a job on the platform.
Company Career Pages
A recruitment specialist friend and former colleague who uses LinkedIn when searching for potential candidates posts job ads on the company’s career page and gets anywhere from fifty applications or more, perhaps due to the convenience of submitting an application through the site.
According to her, many applicants in Thailand submit an application through a company’s LinkedIn careers page, whereupon the recruitment team narrows down the qualified applicants for interview regardless of whether the candidate is already in Thailand or not.
Still according to her, while it is common for headhunters to approach promising candidates on LinkedIn, in-house recruitment officers in some large Thai companies prefer to select from the applications received via the careers page and then create a shortlist out of that list instead of searching within the site.
That is somehow supported by another recruitment expert’s claim that there is no singular tried and tested way of getting hired by a Thai company through LinkedIn. This explains how some people get hired via the professional networking site.
When some people are hired via LinkedIn, it’s not because of any particular keywords in their professional summary, but because they made it through the company’s routine shortlisting process.
Job Alerts
Like JobsDB, job alerts can be set up on LinkedIn, and you can opt to set up these alerts based on your job search history or jobs you’ve saved. Expect to find a wide range of jobs in both medium-sized and multinational firms.
Look at jobs here, especially in middle management, upper management, and senior or executive level positions. Positions in Digital Marketing, Hospitality, Ecommerce and IT, and Finance are common on these platforms.
Keywords
It’s an open secret that companies search for specific keywords when going out to recruit candidates. Aside from the obvious stuff like listing specific technologies you worked with, there are also some lesser known ones that can help you pop up in a search.
Companies in Thailand looking for candidates abroad want to see an indicator that potential employees are flexible and willing to move. One way to showcase that is to list extensive travels in your LinkedIn resume, like gap years or sabbaticals.
It shows that you are already familiar with spending extensive time abroad. You might as well use these specific keywords since that might be something a recruiter will search for when looking for candidates.
Organizations
Successful recruiters and hiring managers look at their current workforce to see what organizations they have on their resume: previous employers, universities, high schools and sometimes even volunteer organizations. Make sure your profile is filled out and that it lists all the organizations you were an active member of.
LinkedIn Premium
In finding a job, going one step further than your fellow job hunters often can be the difference between finding a job and remaining unsuccessful. In LinkedIn, going the extra mile can mean getting a premium account: depending on the plan, it includes InMail credits that let you message people outside of your network. Once you have a premium account, you can contact functional leaders and hiring managers at the companies you’d like to work for.
Most won’t reply – but for some, you might be able to get on the radar of the people capable of driving or making a hiring decision.
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