Hiring Manager’s must be creative and adaptable. They have to be prepared to accept candidates from less obvious career lines than they would have in Europe. CV/Resume sourcing differs significantly from Europe for this reason so there is often a need for accompanying exploratory interviews to understand and value career choices.
Organizing a well-prepared recruitment process implies having given significant time and thought to a well researched offer. The job title is very important, along with career prospects, the evolution of the role and the salary structure. All elements must reflect the benchmark salary of the market and applying supply and demand rules to talent drives flexibility concerning remuneration decisions.
There are frequent heated discussions about the budget that is allocated to subsidiaries by head-offices located outside of Asia. Managers take advantage to immediately seek advice from experts with field-experience within Singapore so as to understand common recruiting practices and methods.
Another variable which is also shaking up some western practises is the issue of reactivity. It is the most frequently overlooked issue for a successful recruitment policy. Some employers are able to make an offer right away to the right candidate without being bound to decisions processes that are based on European practises. The Singaporean applicant will also evaluate his future employer’s motivation towards them by this criterion as a marker of how valuable they are. It is these slow and inflexible practices that are often the cause for losing the best candidates to more opportunist employers.
To recruit successfully within a shallow talent pool it is necessary to be competent and familiar with the recruitment tools used most frequently in Singapore.
A large range of online job publication sites are available and frequently used for hiring in Singapore. They may be international (Monster), more localised (JobsDB, Jobs Central, JobStreet) or function-specialized. LinkedIn is particularly popular amongst.
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