Introducing Vawch for Recruiters - Employers

Vawch is a recruitment marketplace that employs referrals, social networks and technology to enhance your firm’s recruitment capabilities.

Adding Vawch to your existing recruitment channels is a good idea when looking for talent. This is because when you advertise with us, you actually employ tens of referrers to concurrently tap their social networks to help you source for qualified candidates. This ensures you have put together as strong a set of candidates as possible before a role is filled.

Most importantly, this advertising is all done for you on a success basis - "no cure, no pay!".

Success Stories and Testimonials

"We have worked with the Vawch Group for the past 3 months to advertise some of our wholesale banking positions. During this period, they have been able to provide us with several high quality candidates who have been interviewed for our roles and to date has completed a placement for a particularly hard-to-fill investment banking position."

HR Manager - Standard Chartered

“My friend referred and encouraged me to apply to a regional HR position that was advertised on Vawch. I did and have just started in this new role. My experience with the Vawch platform has been positive. The process was easy and I encourage companies and candidates to try it out.”

Recruiting Manager at a top 3 management consultancy

Five reasons why you should partner with Vawch

More comprehensive search – Concurrent network sourcing by referrers typically unearths the elusive passive candidate. Our network of contacts is always current and sourcing speed improves as it grows.

Better quality candidates – Sourcing for both active and passive candidates (i.e. not actively seeking a new job) is done through social networks. The referral nature of Vawch also ensures that candidates are backed by personal recommendations.

Filtered results – A proprietary candidate ranking algorithm developed by graduates from leading US universities minimizes the tedious manual sorting processes faced with classifieds and online job boards.

Cost effective – Benefits of sourcing and filtering efficiencies are passed through to recruiters. Companies can expect to pay fees that are comparable to premium job boards and advertising but on a success basis!

Success based – Unlike advertising with media companies or online job boards, Vawch only receives payment if a candidate is placed with your firm.

What are the risks of engaging Vawch?

Absolutely none! We are a success-based channel that is complementary your existing recruitment channels.

Payment is due only upon your selected candidate starting employment. For our premium service, we offer a 3 month guarantee for your chosen candidate (from his or her start date).

Prices start from 4% of the candidate’s guaranteed annual compensation for government agencies and 6% for private employers, depending on the level of service required by the client. Fees start at a minimum of S$2,000. Value added services as part of our premium service can be provided for an additional fee. Premium services start at 9%.

Recruiter FAQ

How much does the Vawch service cost?

Vawch offers 2 types of services, standard and premium, with different levels of pricing for private or public sector firms.

The Vawch standard service costs a recruiter 4-6% of the annual guaranteed compensation (including base salary and guaranteed bonus). For the premium package, we charge an additional fee. But do remember, this is a success-based fee. You don’t incur any charges until Vawch has successfully filled your job with the perfect candidate!

What value-added services do you offer?

Vawch has a developed a proprietary candidate ranking (Vawch Candidate Ranking System™) and referrer scoring (Vawch Score™) algorithm to filter the candidates who have submitted their applications for a job. This way you can concentrate your attention on the candidates who are ranked most highly but still have access to all the candidates who have expressed interest in the job.

For our premium service, Vawch consultants will screen the resumes beforehand and conduct a pre-screen interview with the candidates before finally presenting a final shortlist for your consideration. The consultant may also assist in the setting up and management of interviews with the recruiter. All in all, Vawch offers significant value-added services for a competitive fee.

How is Vawch different than newspaper classifieds or online job boards (e.g. JobsDB, Monster.com)?

Unlike advertising channels where the budget is expensed, Vawch has a guaranteed Return on Investment and only charges if your vacancy is filled. Additionally, the typical resources associated with processing applications are minimized (e.g. scanning, sorting resumes and identifying suitable candidates).

With Vawch, you are not limited to the referral reach of your employee base. You now have access to our network of professionals who have joined Vawch as referrers. The power of networked recruiting is its potential to uncover candidates who may not be actively looking for a job and also widens your search exponentially. We also share a significant portion of our fees with our referrers as rewards. We believe in rewarding the people who contribute to the success of the search.

Another unique point is Vawch’s positioning. Our platform is designed for professionals and only advertises high value positions with minimum annual compensation starting from S$50,000.

With our fast growing referrer network, we anticipate to have a reach that is comparable to that of the traditional advertising channels.

What if an employee leaves after only a few months on the job?

Much like other traditional advertising channels, Vawch cannot guarantee that your selected candidate stays with your organization.

However, if you choose to work with our premium service, you will be covered. If a Vawch placed candidate sourced through our premium service leaves within 3 months of starting employment, Vawch will offer the recruiter a replacement search at no cost to the recruiter.

Who is doing the referrals for me?

Vawch’s service is conducted by the many referrers who have signed up to provide access to their network of professional and personal contacts to the job vacancy. These referrers may be experts in the particular field and know the right people who work in that field or the referrers may just be ‘social connectors’ who have a large network of contacts they can tap on. These may include ex-headhunters or HR professionals.

I want this search to be confidential. Won’t Vawch disclose my vacancy to the world?

Vawch provides recruiters with the option to keep the search ‘confidential’ by not disclosing the company’s name on the job board. We understand that you may wish to keep a search confidential for competitive reasons.

I do not want my competitors to know how much I am paying my employees. Can I keep the salary confidential?

Vawch provides recruiters with the option to keep the salary ‘confidential’ by not disclosing the salary to our referrers. However, you will still need to tell Vawch the salary range for the position so that we may calculate the estimated rewards for our referrers. You may also choose to keep the company name as ‘confidential’ but disclose the salary details to our referrers.

How can we get employees from outside Singapore?

The Vawch platform is designed to be global since we believe that the search for talent is now increasingly a global one, especially in a tight small market like Singapore. Although our initial focus is the Singapore market, we anticipate recruiting referrers from all over the world who will then be able to refer good candidates from their countries.