Where Do They Get Employees?

It's not hard to find restaurant employees, but it's difficult to get quality employees. Have you ever wondered where good service-minded restaurant employees are found? First of all, you need to understand that finding quality employees to work with you is about more than where you look. It also depends on our restaurant. Basically, before you recruit your employees, you need to set a standard for your selection and proper employee care, because hard-working employees who want to advance in their careers naturally want to work with high quality restaurants with good standards. After you set your standards, it's time to search for your employees in different places. In the past, you might have to put up signs in front of your restaurant and waited for people to notice them. These days, however, we have lots of helpers in the form of applications and websites that could function as a medium for listing jobs. Let's take a look at some of these helpers.

1.LINE Job   For anyone already using LINE, this service is very convenient. That's because LINE Job provides recruitment services through the LINE application, and about 42 million people across Thailand use LINE. The job positions offered here are focused on service positions such as service staff, receptionists, cashiers, etc. The benefit of using LINE Job is that you can post your job offers for free without any added expenses. You will only have to pay when you look at the details of your applications. Moreover, you can add an unlimited number of admins for free. When people make contact through LINE, the people already using it won't miss their opportunities.   2.Helpster Thailand   Helpster is another job-finding service provider. It pairs operational level employees with businesses and places emphasis on speed and convenience. Importantly, however, Helpster doesn't just serve as a medium between companies and job applicants. Instead, it aims to upgrade the labor market by selecting qualified employees and partners. The service provider includes interview, test and background-checking processes that you can complete yourself and give satisfaction ratings or you can have Helpster complete them for you. Employees who pass the verification process will receive a band that says Verified Staff, so it's a lot easier and less exhausting for entrepreneurs and companies to recruit employees. Moreover, it's possible to verify whether or not employees work with their companies by using GPS in cases where it’s not convenient to enter the store or company.   3.Facebook Group   Because Thai people are already very familiar with Facebook and because it's a social media platform that people regularly use, Facebook Group is a suitable way to recruit employees. You can recruit employees through various groups related to jobs. The benefit of using Facebook Group is that it gives you "freedom" in posting job listings. You can create your ideas freely such as by posting pictures, text or even videos to attract interested people to contact you without any limitations. Just make sure you don't forget the rules of etiquette for each group. An example of popular Facebook groups for recruiting restaurant employees include "Job-Seeking Chefs + People-Seeking Jobs" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/634000369971133/), "Job-Searching+Hiring  Cooks/Chefs/Assistants/Restaurant Employees/Hotel Employees2014" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/358611414338526/), etc.   4. JobBKK   This is a large and popular job-searching website. One advantage it offers is over 200,000 updated jobs in 50,000 positions ranging from staff, manager to executive levels. Therefore, it's possible for entrepreneurs to search for a variety of job positions. Companies and stores can register to apply for the system's services covering every stage in the recruitment process such as job-searching, scheduling interviews and chatting between entrepreneurs and job applicants. In addition, JobBKK also has a system for filtering a wide range of information such as filtering applicants by region or profession.   5.JobThai   This is another popular job-searching website. While it might not be as big as JobBKK, it offers as many as 95,000 jobs that also range from staff to executive positions. One benefit of JobThai is that it has a simple and clear appearance and has only two main menu tabs, namely, "Finding People" and "Finding Jobs". The site also offers filters for resumes, age, education, profession and region. It's appropriate for people who aren't very familiar with job-searching websites or aren't very good with complicated websites.

These are only some of the ways you can recruit your employees. In any case, entrepreneurs should use a wide variety of channels together and include both new and old media such as storefront announcements and the new media stated above. That's because qualified potential applicants may not leave their background in the online world, and you shouldn't trust the recruitment processes of websites and applications too much. Instead, you should give a lot of importance to the interview process for your restaurant. If you can do that, it will help minimize mistakes in the recruitment process and ensure that you obtain high quality employees who possess the attributes every restaurateur wants.