When you have exhausted all recruitment channels but still have no candidates

"Everyone thinks I must be desperate to turn to Tinder ," said Hung Huynh (26 years old, living in Hai Chau district, Da Nang city) when asked why he came up with the idea of ​​recruiting on a dating app.

Currently a human resources specialist for a technology company, Mr. Hung said: "At that time, I posted on my bio (personal description - PV) that I was recruiting sales and marketing staff, but the results were not as expected. I received more offers about personal relationships than jobs."

According to Mr. Hung, using Tinder (a popular dating app) as a Whether or not a recruitment channel is effective depends on the specifics of the industry. For industries that require creativity, youthfulness, or simple administrative work, it is still possible to find good candidates on Tinder.

On the contrary, technical and engineering fields that require deep expertise or higher-level positions will be difficult because "I see that in those fields, they seem to rarely use Tinder and dating apps!", Mr. Hung said.

Catching the right candidate on dating apps isn't easy, but it doesn't have to be "desperate."

"I once created a Tinder account to recruit. At that time, I went to a coffee shop near an IT company, sat there for 3 hours, swiped my hand and 'matched' with 23 programmers in all kinds of languages. When I talked, 12 of them sent their CVs, then 8 of them accepted the job and went to work" - Facebook VL Nguyen shared his interesting experience on a Facebook group.

According to this person, thanks to the lucky recruitment "productivity" that far exceeded KPI, the commission she received that month was enough to live like a... queen.

Introduce the company, expand the circle

With a more comfortable mindset when using dating apps for work purposes, Mr. Nguyen Le Trung (27 years old, living in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City) shared: "HR workers must be up-to-date. Most users of dating apps are young people. In fact, those young people need love and also need work."

Mr. Trung also said that he has recruited many sales staff working in the real estate sector on Tinder. However, he still has plans and allocates costs for official recruitment channels.

"For dating apps, it's mainly a little PR to create curiosity, so those who are looking for a job will be more interested," Trung explained.

Not only Tinder, but also some other dating apps such as Facebook Dating, Bumble... are also "invaded" by young HRs to create a connection between employers and users who are looking for jobs.

"I found this job on Facebook Dating. Last year, when I had just quit my job, I had a lot of free time so I came here to find friends to chat with to relieve stress. By chance, I saw that someone was recruiting a receptionist, so I swiped to try it. After chatting for a while, I found the job suitable, so I set an interview date and went to work right away," said Lam Huynh Nhu (20 years old, living in Thuan An City, Binh Duong).

Expressing her opinion about young HR people "flooding" through dating apps to post recruitment information, Ms. Le Thi My Chi (32 years old, living in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai) with more than 10 years of experience working in the field of human resources was surprised:

"This idea is bold! However, each platform is created for different purposes, so using dating apps for recruitment will violate the platform's community principles."

In addition, recruiting and finding jobs on dating apps also carries many risks, especially when users have not verified their identity, and in some cases are even willing to provide false information to launch scams, creating an unsafe social circle for both personal life and work.