Recruitment Agency in Indonesia
The trend of Recruitment Agency has been started back in early 2000, when Indonesia Enjoying its first Democracy after the “Orde Baru” regime fall. Following the fall Indonesia has started its new era of Economic Growth. Many investors start looking at Indonesia as their potential market and investing their Money In Indonesia. This trend creates an opportunity for the Recruitment Agency to kick start their business in Indonesia. At this period, The market was introduced to companies like Amrop Hever, Kelly Services, JAC, Monroe Consulting Group, etc which all of them is a well know Multi-National Brand.
The more the company grows, the more they need for Talent, and unfortunately, the supply of talents is not equal to the demand of the talent. This situation is heaven for those recruitment agencies, with their database, network as well as their deep understanding on the industry, creating a situation where the market rely heavily on their Recruitment Agency Partner to assist their need.
One of the questions that are always come up amongst the Internal recruiter, does an external agency can replace the role of internal recruiter, the answer is NO, external recruiter cant replaces the role of internal recruiter, as the external recruiter is not fully compatible with the internal culture, not being able to have direct access to the hiring manager or, simply could not be exposed with some internal changes. However, the external Recruiter can be a good ally to any organization, as long as the internal recruiter is being able to see the Recruitment Agency as their Equal Partner.
Currently, there are more than 100 Recruitment agencies in Indonesia, Ranging from Local to Multinational, Big Size, Medium, or Small Size. Some of them are decent Recruitment Agency while some of them is just a CV Farmer type of company. Nevertheless, be wise in choosing your recruitment partner, as they will be your “Ambassador” in the talent market, find the company that is focused on process and not just results will be wise, and most important is, you need to find a recruitment agency that can really understand you
