Quality candidates - the biggest challenge in recruitment in the APME region

Manpower Company said that the new point of the Q4/2025 Recruitment trend survey is to deeply understand the strategy of building a labor force structure in organizations and strive to recruit and retain current personnel in the APME region. Notably, nearly 1⁄2 of businesses at APME consider attracting quality candidates as the biggest challenge in the recruitment process.

Although Vietnam did not participate in this survey, Manpower Vietnam experts still recorded some similar challenges through the process of cooperation with partners and businesses.

Manpower Company said that many of the company's customers have difficulty recruiting candidates who are both technical proficient and proficient in using foreign languages at work (English or Chinese or Japanese). When expanding production facilities or implementing new projects, the urgent need to recruit a large number of skilled personnel makes the human resource problem even more complicated.

According to experts from Manpower Vietnam, the pressure is not only limited in human resource supply but also in fierce competition between businesses in the same industry. In addition, the lack of a recruitment performance monitoring and analysis system makes the recruitment process ineffective, consuming a lot of resources and negatively affecting the candidate experience.

To gradually remove challenges, Manpower Vietnam recommends that businesses review recruitment criteria, thereby selecting suitable channels to approach candidates more effectively, based on actual data from the labor market. At the same time, managers need to analyze the salary and benefits of companies in the industry, and adjust welfare policies to increase competitiveness.