I just got this email from Brian Wallace. He runs a small-IT company based in Miami. He’s interested in hiring an OFS for his business but is having trouble finding them.
“Any tips or approaches on finding more specialized experts in technical areas? In my case it’s tech support, network engineering, the cloud – AWS & Azure, etc. but I imagine others might be looking for experts for their own businesses? The schedule and cost advantages, or even lack of local talent can be just what’s needed.”
I get this question from people looking for workers with specific skills. But I don’t think you should have any problem at all in finding tech support/network engineering people.
There are tons of people with those skills.
I did a quick search on Onlinejobs.ph for the skills Brian listed here. For network engineers, I found 1,000+ profiles.
For AWS, I also found over a thousand resumes.
For Azure, I found around 700 people.
Here are reasons you might not be finding people:
– Maybe your job post wasn’t attractive enough?
– Maybe the salary was too low? (don’t post “TBD” for salary, post a number, you’ll get more applicants)
– Maybe you just need to post the job post again (this almost always garners more applicants).
– Try proactively contacting workers from their profiles by searching for the skills you’re looking for. If I don’t get enough applicants, that’s what I do. I’ll contact 10-30 people from their profile and then hire from those who respond.
– I contact many people because even though they have a profile on Onlinejobs.ph doesn’t mean they’re available. They could already be working and just didn’t bother deactivating their profile.
– When searching on OnlineJobs.ph, try putting your search terms in quotes.
Like “azure developer” rather than azure developer. You’ll get better search results.
Which…now’s probably a good time to mention that improving search results on OnlineJobs.ph is one of our top priorities. We have 3 people working full-time on it. Yes, you can find really people who are really talented with technical skills.
John
Hi John
Thank you for all the emails that you have.
We are looking for a great telemarketing person, Do you know of any or have any ideas
Hi Samuel! This is Jamie, I’m one of John’s VAs. I forwarded your comment to John and this is his reply.
“I don’t really recommend people. here’s the reason why: https://ofsguide.com/#q3
But if you want to find a great telemarketing person, the best place to go is Onlinejobs.ph. I did a quick search and found thousands of Filipino workers with telemarketing experience: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/employers/skillsearch/telemarketing/80702046e23b484ce7dad092d7cf1beb4468227/0 “
Hi Samuel!
The best option would be to look for a telemarketing person at Onlinejobs.ph. I did a quick search and here are the results: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/employers/skillsearch/telemarketing/80702046e23b484ce7dad092d7cf1beb4537929/0
Filopino have their pros and cons when doing customer service. Pros are they are much cheaper to hire, of course, they have taught English from the time they begin talking, and they all have to have college degrees to work for a center and they are very polite. Not cons, just more humorous is the fact is that if you are talking to one that works for call center, you never fail to hear roosters crowing. It is a lot of background noises that make you say humm
Hi Lisa!
Yes, the roosters =)
It’s happening more often because even big call centers let their employees work from home due to the pandemic restrictions. And chickens are popular pets, even in urban areas.