Vietnamese overseas students' expectation toward recruitment agencies in home country
Hanh, Tran (2010)
Hanh, Tran
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2010
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201101191517
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The objective of the thesis was to explore the expectations of students studying abroad to recruitment agencies in Vietnam. The study aims at recommend the right service for recruit-ment agencies offer to students to find a job and explore the culture obstacles for their career development when return home. The study originated from author’s own experience when finding an internship in Vietnam.
The theoretical framework is based on relevant areas of theories of recruitment process, na-tional culture, organizational culture. Theories of various authors such as Dowling, Gómez- Mejía, Dessler, Beardwell, Hofstede were to create the empirical part and find out the result of the study.
The empirical part was conducted through phone, interviewing five managers of five top recruitment agencies in Vietnam, and face to face, interviewing ten students studying in Fin-land, which enabled the respondents to express their opinions, feelings and experiences. The interview themes were recruitment method, recruitment agencies, student expectations and culture obstacles.
The results of the study indicated that finding a job through job advertisement and recruit-ment agencies are the two most effective method. Online recruitment may develop very strongly in near future. Recruitment play important role in labour market, however, only Vi-etnamworks which is the most popular and competitive recruitment agencies market was mentioned. Students from abroad expect career consultation services, law services, interview and resume preparation and skills training from the recruitment agencies. Culture obstacles for career development are due to the different culture dimensions between the countries where students are studying and Vietnam where they would like to work. Equal treatment between male and female is common when selecting employee for job opportunity. High power distance hinders students’ job advancement and collectivism and low uncertain avoidance create difficulties in group working.
The theoretical framework is based on relevant areas of theories of recruitment process, na-tional culture, organizational culture. Theories of various authors such as Dowling, Gómez- Mejía, Dessler, Beardwell, Hofstede were to create the empirical part and find out the result of the study.
The empirical part was conducted through phone, interviewing five managers of five top recruitment agencies in Vietnam, and face to face, interviewing ten students studying in Fin-land, which enabled the respondents to express their opinions, feelings and experiences. The interview themes were recruitment method, recruitment agencies, student expectations and culture obstacles.
The results of the study indicated that finding a job through job advertisement and recruit-ment agencies are the two most effective method. Online recruitment may develop very strongly in near future. Recruitment play important role in labour market, however, only Vi-etnamworks which is the most popular and competitive recruitment agencies market was mentioned. Students from abroad expect career consultation services, law services, interview and resume preparation and skills training from the recruitment agencies. Culture obstacles for career development are due to the different culture dimensions between the countries where students are studying and Vietnam where they would like to work. Equal treatment between male and female is common when selecting employee for job opportunity. High power distance hinders students’ job advancement and collectivism and low uncertain avoidance create difficulties in group working.