The short version: Vietnam’s hiring market splits by language and by role. VietnamWorks and TopCV carry general professional hiring, ITviec and TopDev carry engineering, CareerViet carries volume and blue collar roles, Glints covers the region, and LinkedIn reaches the 10 million Vietnamese professionals who keep an English profile. Posting a job is often free. The real cost is screening what arrives.
Every employer I talk to about Vietnam asks the same first question: where do we post the job? I thought about trying to answer it once and for all. Which is why this guide exists, to help employers like yourself find suitable job boards easily.
That said, before we go into the list, there’s an important thing to note. I have helped clients stand up employment in Vietnam several times, and the job ad has never been the bottleneck. The bottleneck is that a Vietnamese-language board will hand you 200 applications you cannot read, and an English-language board will hand you eleven. Picking the right board is mostly about deciding which of those two problems you would rather have.
Takeaways
- Pick by language first, then by role. VietnamWorks and CareerViet give you an English employer interface, TopCV gives you the deepest local pool.
- For engineers, ITviec reaches English-speaking developers and TopDev reaches the Korean and Japanese employer network. Running both usually buys duplicates.
- Free posting exists on Glints, TopCV and LinkedIn, but verification can take up to three working days, so open the account early.
- App ratings vary widely, from 3.2 for CareerViet to 4.7 for VietnamWorks, TopCV and Glints. A low score signals candidate experience, not reach.
- The board ends at the offer. Contracts, insurance registration and tax filing need an entity or an employer of record.
The 7 Best Job Boards to Hire Employees in Vietnam
These seven were selected on reach, on whether an overseas employer can actually use the employer side, and on whether the board is still active. Each site below was opened and screenshotted in August 2026, and every rating quoted was read from the store listing on the same day.
1. VietnamWorks
VietnamWorks is the default choice for mid to senior professional hiring. Run by Navigos Group, it has been operating for more than 24 years and states that it serves over 70,000 businesses, with a database of 6.2 million candidate accounts and close to 11 million job views a month.
Key features:
- A bilingual site, so one ad can carry both an English and a Vietnamese audience.
- Resume search across 6.2 million candidate accounts, sold separately from job posting.
- AI job ad drafting from an existing job description or a link, with salary suggestions by role.
- AI screening that scores and ranks applicants against the criteria you set.
- Employer branding placements and the HR Insider content network.
How to use it: open the employer portal at employer.vietnamworks.com, register the company, then choose between posting a job and searching the resume database. The AI drafting tool will build the ad from a file you upload, which saves the translation round trip. Set the screening criteria before the ad goes live, because that is what the ranking runs against.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| The widest professional reach in Vietnam, and the English side works without a translation step. | Job posting and CV database access are priced separately, so budgets add up. |
| Salary benchmarking and market reports come with the account. | Strongest in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, thinner in secondary cities. |
| AI drafting removes most of the bilingual ad writing work. | Aimed at white collar hiring, not production or field roles. |
Reviews: the candidate app holds 4.7 out of 5 from about 9,790 ratings on Google Play, against 500,000 or more downloads, the highest rating of any Vietnamese general board in this list. That matters to an employer: candidates who like the app keep their profiles current.
2. TopCV
TopCV is the local-language volume board. It began in 2014 as a CV builder, which is why its candidate profiles are unusually complete, and it now runs what it calls the TopCV Smart Recruitment Platform with an in-house AI layer called Toppy AI.
Key features:
- Free job posting on the entry tier, with paid boosts for placement and reach.
- A CV database built from its own resume builder, so profiles are structured rather than uploaded PDFs.
- Toppy AI for sourcing, screening and candidate scoring.
- Recruitment marketing products for employer branding, aimed at high volume hiring.
- An employer mobile app for managing applicants away from a desk.
How to use it: the employer side sits on a separate domain, tuyendung.topcv.vn. Register there, submit the business documents, then post. The interface is Vietnamese only, so if nobody on your side reads Vietnamese, have your local manager or agency own the account rather than working through a browser translation.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| The largest pool of active Vietnamese-language jobseekers, and free posting to start. | No English employer interface, which rules out self-service for most foreign teams. |
| Structured profiles from its own CV builder make filtering faster. | Application volume is high, and a lot of it will be off target. |
| Strong with early career and mid level candidates. | Thin for senior English-speaking or expatriate roles. |
Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 from around 14,400 ratings on Google Play, with 500,000 or more downloads. Among Vietnamese boards that is the largest well-rated candidate base, and it explains why local recruiters treat TopCV as the first place to post.
3. ITviec
ITviec is the English-friendly engineering board, and the one most foreign software teams end up using. It reports more than 10,000 IT companies on the platform, over 1.5 million CVs sent, and 300,000 or more experienced IT profiles matched.
Key features:
- An IT-only candidate base, filtered by stack, seniority and years of experience.
- Talent Finder for proactive search, with the option to invite candidates to share a CV.
- AI Match, an add-on that recommends candidates against your posting and limits results to jobseekers active in the last 30 days.
- Employer branding through Top Employers listings and Company Spotlight pages.
- The annual Vietnam IT Salary and Recruitment Market Report, useful for setting bands before you post.
How to use it: go to itviec.com/employer and request an account. ITviec runs a contact-first sales process rather than instant self-service, so expect a conversation before your first ad. Write the ad in English, name the stack in the title, and state whether the role is onsite in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, hybrid, or fully remote.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| Candidates are pre-filtered to IT, and most are comfortable working in English. | Useless outside technology roles, by design. |
| Company review pages give candidates a reason to trust an unfamiliar foreign employer. | No published price list, so you cannot budget without talking to sales. |
| The salary report is the benchmark most local recruiters set offers against. | The candidate pool is smaller than the general boards, so a niche stack can go quiet. |
Reviews: ITviec does not run a consumer app that appears in Play Store searches for the brand, so there is no store rating to quote. Its public signal is employer testimonials from named talent acquisition leads at Vietnam-based technology firms.
Treat that as weaker evidence than a store rating. Ask for two client references before you sign.
4. TopDev
TopDev is the other IT board, and it competes with ITviec on the same candidates. It is operated by Applancer and connected to the Korean recruitment group Saramin, which shows in its unusually strong coverage of Korean and Japanese employers hiring in Vietnam.
Key features:
- A developer-only audience with filtering by language and framework.
- A company directory listing more than 5,300 employers, which candidates browse directly.
- The Vietnam IT Market Report, the most cited salary and headcount dataset in the local tech market.
- Bilingual site, with an English interface for the candidate side.
- Employer branding pages and tech community events.
How to use it: employer access runs through topdev.vn/employer/login, where you create an account and then post. Because the company directory drives a lot of candidate browsing, fill the company profile out properly before the first ad rather than after.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| Good reach into Korean and Japanese employer networks in Vietnam. | A weaker candidate app rating than its rivals, which suggests less repeat use. |
| Its market report is free and worth reading before you post before you set a salary band. | Overlaps heavily with ITviec, so running both often buys duplicate applicants. |
| Company profile pages get real browsing traffic. | Smaller reach than ITviec on senior English-speaking engineers. |
Reviews: 3.5 out of 5 from 257 ratings on Google Play, with 100,000 or more downloads. That is the weakest candidate-side score in this list, and the small rating count says the app is not where most of its traffic goes. Use TopDev for the web audience and the report, not for app-driven applications.
5. CareerViet
CareerViet, formerly CareerBuilder Vietnam, is the volume generalist. Its employer page reports more than 5 million members, over 20,000 companies using the service, 25,000 or more jobs posted each day, and 50,000 resume updates a day.
Key features:
- Job posting plus a separately sold resume database.
- VietnamSalary, a public salary lookup tool candidates use before applying.
- CareerMap and CareerStart products aimed at graduate and early career pipelines.
- Distribution partnerships, including the Tuoi Tre newspaper jobs section and VieclamIT.vn.
- A full English interface on both the candidate and employer sides.
How to use it: register at careerviet.vn/en/employers, then choose Post Jobs or the resume database from the products page. The English employer interface is the practical reason to pick CareerViet over TopCV if your team runs recruitment from outside Vietnam.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| English employer interface with a large local candidate base behind it. | The candidate app rating is the lowest of the general boards at 3.2. |
| Covers roles the professional boards skip, including sales, retail and operations. | Brand recognition has slipped since the CareerBuilder rename. |
| VietnamSalary gives candidates a benchmark, which reduces offer stage surprises. | Volume means heavier screening on your side. |
Reviews: 3.2 out of 5 from 715 ratings on Google Play with 100,000 or more downloads. Read that as a warning about candidate experience rather than about reach: the web product still carries serious volume, but candidates are not enthusiastic about the app.
6. Glints
Glints is the regional option. Its free job marketplace covers six markets including Vietnam, and the company reports 8,000 or more jobs posted monthly, 60,000 organisations served, and around 6 million visitors a month across the region.
Key features:
- Unlimited free job listings once your company profile is verified.
- A company profile page and applicant management inside the same dashboard.
- Regional reach, so one employer account covers Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
- A younger candidate skew, heavy on early career and first job hires.
- TalentHub, a paid managed service covering recruitment, employer of record and payroll.
How to use it: sign up free at employers.glints.com, upload a legal document for verification, then post. Glints states that verification takes up to three working days and that new profiles plus the first ten listings go through review, so start the account before the week you need the hire.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| Free unlimited listings and an English dashboard that needs no local help. | Verification delays your first post by up to three working days. |
| One account covers five Southeast Asian markets. | Trustpilot reviews of the group are poor, at 1.4 out of 5 from 41 reviews. |
| Candidate app is well rated across the region. | Skews junior, so senior local hires are harder to source here. |
Reviews: the candidate app scores 4.7 out of 5 from about 303,000 ratings on Google Play with 10 million or more downloads, the strongest candidate-side score in this list.
The employer side reads differently. Glints Intern Pte Ltd holds 1.4 out of 5 from 41 Trustpilot reviews, a small sample worth reading before you commit to the paid TalentHub service.
7. LinkedIn
LinkedIn reaches a specific slice of Vietnam: the 10.0 million members its own advertising tools reported in late 2025, equal to 13.5 percent of adults. That figure counts registered members rather than active users, so treat it as a ceiling, not an audience.
Key features:
- LinkedIn Recruiter with Hiring Assistant, for teams hiring continuously.
- Hiring Pro, the lighter product for occasional hiring by non-recruiters.
- Career Pages for employer branding, which matters when candidates have never heard of you.
- InMail for direct outreach to candidates who are not applying to anything.
- Filters on current employer, which is how you find the engineer already working at a Vietnamese offshore centre.
How to use it: post through the free job slot first to test response, then decide between promoting that ad and buying Recruiter seats. In Vietnam the sourcing side outperforms the posting side, so budget for InMail rather than for ad promotion.
| What works well | What to watch |
|---|---|
| The only board here where you can target by current employer and career history. | 10 million members is registered accounts, and a large share are inactive. |
| Candidates are used to dealing with foreign companies. | The most expensive option per hire once you add Recruiter seats. |
| Employer branding travels with the profile, not just the ad. | Weak for local-language, non-management and production roles. |
Reviews: the LinkedIn app holds 4.1 out of 5 from roughly 3.49 million ratings on Google Play. The score is a global average rather than a Vietnam signal, which is the honest limit of what an app rating tells you about a market this specific.
Comparison At a Glance
| Board | Best for | Employer interface | Candidate app rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| VietnamWorks | Mid to senior professional roles | English and Vietnamese | 4.7 (9,790 ratings) |
| TopCV | Local-language volume hiring | Vietnamese only | 4.7 (14,400 ratings) |
| ITviec | English-speaking engineers | English and Vietnamese | No store listing found |
| TopDev | Developers, Korean and Japanese employers | English and Vietnamese | 3.5 (257 ratings) |
| CareerViet | Volume, sales, operations, graduates | English and Vietnamese | 3.2 (715 ratings) |
| Glints | Junior roles and regional hiring | English | 4.7 (303,000 ratings) |
| Senior and English-speaking candidates | English | 4.1 (3.49 million ratings) |
Ratings were read from Google Play in August 2026 and will drift. The ranking between boards moves slowly, though: VietnamWorks and TopCV have held the top of the general market for years, and ITviec and TopDev have split the engineering market between them for just as long.
What a Job Board Will Not Do for You
A job board ends at the offer. Everything after that is employment law, and Vietnam has plenty of it. You need a local entity or an employer of record to sign the contract, register the employee for social, health and unemployment insurance, and file personal income tax.
Two things catch employers out. Statutory contributions are calculated against a capped salary base, so your cost per hire is not a flat percentage of the offer. And probation, notice and termination rules are set in the Labour Code rather than in your contract template, which means a clause copied from a Singapore or US agreement can be void.
How Hiring Through a Vietnamese Job Board Works
You register a company account, verify your business, post the ad, and receive applications in a dashboard. Most Vietnamese boards let you post at least one job at no cost, then charge for placement, for access to the CV database, or for a subscription that bundles both.
Two things surprise first-time foreign employers. Verification is not instant: several boards check a business registration document before your first listings go live, which can take a few working days. And the free tier is deliberately narrow, usually capping either the number of live jobs or the number of applications you can open.
Language matters more than the pricing page. A job ad written only in English filters your applicant pool before you have read a single CV. That is useful if you want English-speaking candidates and costly if you are hiring a finance manager in Hanoi.
The market itself is deep on the technical side. TopDev’s Vietnam IT Market Report puts the country’s IT workforce at roughly 560,000 professionals, growing from an intake of 55,000 to 60,000 computing students a year. For everything else, the supply picture is set by an internet population of 85.6 million out of 102 million residents, according to DataReportal’s Digital 2026 Vietnam report.
Our guide to Vietnam payroll, benefits and tax covers the contribution rates and the filing calendar. If you have no entity, an employer of record in Vietnam becomes the legal employer while your team manages the work, and our comparison of EOR providers in Vietnam covers who does that well.
Job Board, Recruitment Agency, or Hiring Partner
Use a job board when you can screen in Vietnamese, when the role is common enough to attract applications, and when you have time to run the funnel yourself. A single mid level ad on VietnamWorks or TopCV will do the job.
Use a recruitment agency when the role is senior, confidential, or so specific that a board will return nothing usable. Our list of IT recruitment agencies in Vietnam covers that route, and the platforms for hiring software engineers in Vietnam guide covers the vetted marketplace option, which is a different product from a job board.
Cost is the deciding factor for most teams. Before you choose, read what a hire actually costs: our breakdown of the cost of hiring software developers in Vietnam puts the board fee in context against salary, contributions and management time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a foreign company post a job in Vietnam without a local entity?
Yes. Posting a job is not a regulated activity, and boards such as Glints and LinkedIn will accept an overseas company. Employing the person you hire is regulated, which is where an entity or an employer of record becomes necessary.
Which Vietnamese job board is free?
Glints offers unlimited free listings after verification, and TopCV offers free posting on its entry tier. LinkedIn includes one free job slot per account. VietnamWorks, ITviec and CareerViet are paid products, with pricing quoted per post or per subscription.
Should the job ad be in English or Vietnamese?
Write in the language the job will be done in. English ads on ITviec and LinkedIn work because those candidates work in English daily. An English-only ad on TopCV or CareerViet will cut your applicant pool without improving its quality.
How long does it take to hire through a Vietnamese job board?
Budget four to eight weeks from posting to signed offer for a mid level role, plus up to three working days for account verification before the first ad goes live. Engineering roles at senior level run longer, because the strongest candidates are not applying to ads.
Do I need to state a salary in the ad?
It is not required, but ads with a band get more qualified applications. Both TopDev and ITviec publish annual salary reports you can benchmark against, and CareerViet runs a public salary lookup that your candidates are already using.
If you would rather skip the funnel altogether, we shortlist pre-vetted candidates in Vietnam and across APAC within 24 hours, and we can employ them for you where you have no entity. Tell us what you are hiring for and we will come back with names.
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