Hiring the right talent is critical to your business’s success, and any business’s success, but it can be complex, time-consuming, and costly, especially in Vietnam’s dynamic landscape. But with the right hiring solution, you can transform your workforce and drive success. Manpower Vietnam, blending global expertise with local insights, offers flexible recruitment services tailored to your needs, whether you’re hiring for the first time or scaling a corporation. Let’s overcome your hiring challenges and find your ideal solution.
Why a hiring solution matters
Recruitment is more than filling a role—it’s about matching the right talent that fuels your growth. Common hiring challenges include
Lead Time: Sourcing and screening candidates takes weeks, while building an employer brand to attract talent puts you behind competitors who move faster.
High Costs: In-house recruitment strains budgets, and costs soar when scaling up or downsizing your workforce.
Talent Fit: Matching skills and culture is tough—avoiding unconscious bias and sourcing niche or unavailable skill sets in the market adds complexity.
Confidentiality: Some vacancies require discretion to protect investor confidence, internal trust, or strategic plans.
A tailored hiring solution from an HR agency, like Manpower Vietnam, tackles these challenges, delivering efficiency, quality, compliance with up-to-date local regulations, and discretion when needed. Manpower’s track records across 12 industries empower you to hire smarter and thrive.
Step 1: Define your hiring needs
Choosing the right hiring solution starts with clearly identifying your goals. Before outsourcing recruitment, complete this simple checklist to clarify your needs:
1. What roles are you hiring for?
High-level: Strategic leadership and management roles, including CEOs, CFOs, VPs, Heads of Departments, General Managers, and Senior Directors.
Mid-level: Roles requiring professional technical skills and years of experience, including team leads, seniors, engineers, analysts, experts, and so on.
Low-level: unskilled or basic level in operation, including warehouse workers, factory operators, drivers, janitorial staff, and so on.
2. How many headcounts for each position do you need?
One headcount per position
Many headcounts for one position
Many headcounts for many positions
3. What is the salary range of each position?
4. What is your working location?
Northern region of Vietnam: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, Vinh Phuc, etc.
Central: Da Nang, Hue, Quang Nam, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Quang Ngai, etc.
Southern: Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Can Tho, Long An, etc.
Outside Vietnam
5. What else do you need aside from recruiting?
Reference Check
Candidate Assessment
Payroll
Confidential search required
Relocation package
Others
Ticking these boxes helps you save your time when discussing with any recruitment firm in Vietnam. If you are setting a new business in Vietnam, let us help your business thrive with our specialized guide.
Step 2: Discover your right hiring solutions
Global recruitment firms, like Manpower Vietnam, offer a wide range of flexible and innovative workforce solutions, each tailored to your business plans and goals. The most popular recruitment services include executive search, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), mass recruitment and staffing. Here’s how they work:
Executive Search/Headhunter: for high-level leaders
What is Executive Search?
Executive search focuses on identifying and attracting top-tier leadership talent who shape your business strategy, culture and vision.
Why choose it?
Minimize Hiring Risks: Precision vetting for expertise and alignment
Global Talent Pool: Access to candidates worldwide.
Efficiency and Speed: Fast to fill leadership gaps and confidential hiring to protect sensitive transitions.
Ideal for:
Strategic leadership roles.
Strategic change or business expansion or transformation is underway.
When confidentiality hiring is a top priority.
Example:
A trading corporation undergoing a sensitive leadership transition needs to hire a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with experience leading digital transformation initiatives. They engage Manpower Vietnam’s executive search service to discreetly target candidates with 15+ years of financial leadership, ensuring confidentiality to protect investor confidence and employees’ trust. The search is open to talent from diverse industries like Tech/IT or Industrials, as long as they have what it takes.
Permanent Recruitment: for long-term mid-level roles
What is Permanent Recruitment?
Permanent recruitment specializes in filling mid-level positions for lasting impact. This solution aims to find professionals who align closely with the company's values, goals, and growth trajectory.
Why choose it?
Long-Term Value: Helps businesses build a stable, committed team that contributes to sustainable growth.
Tailored Match: Alignment with company culture and growth plans.
Reduced Turnover: A matching process results in workers who are more likely to stay and grow within the organization.
Ideal for:
When hiring specialized or single roles.
When seeking candidates for long-term growth.
When aiming to build a core team for steady growth.
Example:
A German high-quality test technology manufacturer, newly established in Vietnam in Q1 2024, required 10 senior headcounts for HR and sales positions nationwide. They faced challenges with local labor market compensation and benefits and needed successful onboarding during Feb 2024. With Manpower Vietnam’s permanent recruitment services, all staff were onboard within one month. A workshop on local labor code compliance was conducted. 600 candidates were approached, and the best were shortlisted within two weeks, enhancing employer branding and gaining client recognition.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO): for varied roles
What is Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)?
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a strategic hiring solution where a business transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to an external partner. This provider acts as an extension of the company's HR department, managing end-to-end recruitment functions, from sourcing and interviewing to onboarding.
Why choose it?
Strategic, long-term focus on improving recruitment process and candidate experience.
Wider talent pool for sourcing, attracting and recruiting.
Enhanced employer branding.
Difference between RPO and permanent recruitment
| RPO | Permanent Recruitment |
Approach | Broader approach
| Transactional hires
|
Scope of work | Manage entire recruitment function or a large part of it | Recruiting specific roles |
Benefits |
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Ideal for:
Multiple role types across team
Limited HR or internal resources
Quality-driven hiring for long-term success
Example:
LiteOon Technology, a global leader in power management solutions, planned to recruit 760 headcounts by the end of 2025 for various engineering and managerial positions in Hai Phong. To address this, they utilized Manpower Vietnam's recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) service. A dedicated team of up to 10 onsite consultants from Manpower Vietnam was deployed. The solution included seasonal recruitment projects, HR policy recommendations, and support through social media and employer branding campaigns.
Within the first three months, 120 headcounts were successfully recruited, achieving a KPI of over 90% and a client satisfaction index of over 95%.
Mass Recruitment: for high volume of the same role
What is Mass Recruitment?
Mass recruitment is specially designed to efficiently source and rapidly hire a large number of candidates in the same position (sales staff, factory workers, etc.). This approach leverages extensive networks and streamlines processes to quickly identify and onboard multiple qualified workers.
Why choose it?
Efficiency: speed to meet urgent hiring demands.
Cost-efficient: Save time and resources for large-scale hiring.
Streamlined coordination: Handle all process through a single, coordinated recruitment effort, reducing complexity.
Ideal for:
Launching new projects or rapid expansion
High-volume hiring in similar roles.
When scaling operations in a tight timeline.
Example:
A global IT services and Tech company is expanding in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. They plan to set up a new factory and need over 250 engineers. Manpower Vietnam's mass recruitment service uses local expertise and a large talent pool to efficiently source, assess, and onboard all positions under a unified hiring campaign.
Staffing: for short-term roles
What is Staffing?
Staffing solutions provide fast access to temporary or contract-based workers to meet urgent or short-term needs. Staffing agencies maintain a ready pool of candidates who can be deployed immediately to fill workforce gaps.
Why choose it?
Speed: Quickly fill vacancies to maintain operations.
Flexibility: Scale staff for projects or seasonal needs without long-term commitment.
Administration Relief: Outsource payroll, insurance, employee relation and compliance tasks.
Ideal for:
Sudden spikes or seasonal or project demands.
Large-scale operational needs that internal HR cannot fulfill in time.
To fill immediate gaps without the burden of permanent hiring.
For small-scale, low-level hiring of low-level employees, businesses should assess if outsourcing is cost-effective. In such cases, building an internal HR team maybe more efficient.
Example:
An e-commerce company experiences a 40% surge in orders during the holiday season. They urgently need to add 250 temporary warehouse workers within two weeks. Manpower Vietnam quickly supplies qualified temps, handling contracts, payroll, and compliance.
Step 3. Choose with confidence
Our summary table helps you pick the right hiring solutions based on your checklist
Role level | Type | Focus | Suggested Recruitment Solution |
High | Permanent | Leadership | Executive search |
Mid | Permanent / Temporary | High Volume of the same role | Mass Recruitment |
Mid | Permanent | Varied Roles or Specialized Roles | RPO or Permanent Recruitment |
Low | Temporary | Large-scale | Staffing |
Low | Permanent / Temporary | Small-scale, low budget | Internal |
Why choose Manpower Vietnam?
Manpower Vietnam offers a comprehensive set of hiring solutions that streamline the hiring process and support your business needs. Whether you need to recruit top-level executives, hire a large number of workers, or get expert HR advice, we’re here to help you at every step.
With over 77 years of global operations and 17 years of recruitment expertise in Vietnam, Manpower Vietnam provides data-driven and award-winning workforce solutions, including Permanent recruitment, Executive search, Mass recruitment, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Staffing and Outsourcing services across varied industries.
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