With lifted sanctions, international recruitment to and from Iran should be a more viable option for global businesses. Increased trade and investment has improved Iran’s industry and economy, opening up markets and growing businesses; top talent is critical to developing and managing this level of growth. In an effort to help, here are strategies for international recruiting with Iran’s top job board: IranTalent.com

IranTalent.com
This is the leading job board in Iran, giving recruiters access to over 700k professionals. This leading job board is in English language with a focus on bilingual candidates; this makes international recruitment with Iran more appealing. Over 3,000 international and local companies rely on IranTalent.com as their primary source of talent.

Their website is easy to use and understand, giving employers access to top Iranian professionals and their CVs, and giving candidates access to job openings from thousands of top companies. IranTalent.com is where international companies (in and outside of Iran) go for their professional and managerial recruitment needs.

Local Market Expertise
One of the main benefits of recruiting internationally is acquiring local market expertise. This knowledge helps companies establish trade and maintain solid communications with local markets, and it brings new methods for streamlining processes.

The more stark the differences are between the two countries, the more useful the foreign expertise becomes. This is why businesses inside and outside of Iran will benefit from international recruiting. Generally, this means the top industries of Iran, yet SMEs have a lot to gain too.

Filling Skill Shortages
Iran has historically suffered from skill shortages from a lack of development within many segments of their economy and industry; expanded international sanctions in 2012 created high unemployment and depressed the economy.

This is explained further from IndexMundi.com’s “Iran Economy Profile 2016”, which states in the economy overview,
“Iran continues to suffer from high unemployment and underemployment. Lack of job opportunities has prompted many educated Iranian youth to seek employment overseas, resulting in a significant ‘brain drain.’”

Iran’s top industries are: gas, oil, petrochemicals, mining, metals, construction, automotive, and defense. These thriving and growing industries need engineers, technicians, managers, research scientists, and skilled labor professionals; yet, there’s also struggling industries where skill shortages are more acute, such as: healthcare, education, research, technology, retail, and production.

We learn more from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) report from 2016, as it explains:
“Tehran has taken important steps since 2005 to put in place the right policies on science, technology and innovation, the report says, but needs to better align these with other key policy areas such as trade, investment, industrial development, education, and competition.
…The economy has seen 2,700 knowledge-based firms worth $6.6 billion spring up in recent years…’Iranian companies can boost their competitiveness by improving design capacity and softer, non-technical skills like marketing and management,’…”

Overall, international recruitment is an important tool for Iranian businesses to find top talent, and for international companies to find top talent from Iran, to streamline business relationships and fill skill shortages.

Foreign companies can take advantage of recruiting from the large pool of top talent found on IranTalent.com, by appealing to qualified candidates who are having difficulty finding quality employment in their fields in Iran. This strategy fills skill shortages and established business connections with an emerging foreign market set to rise.

Summary
With a population near 80 million and a GDP of $404 billion in 2014, Iran is a place investors and companies should pay attention to, especially, with the recently lifted sanctions.

IranTalent.com is the main recruitment tool for foreign companies to use, in their efforts to find qualified top talent. This talent may be needed to: fill skill shortages, obtain foreign market expertise, or establish trade and business relations with Iranian industries.

IranTalent.com also works to attract foreign talent who’re seeking jobs in Iran, which means Iranian companies can attract foreign, English-speaking talent to their listings – IranTalent.com being the only English-speaking job board in Iran. Either way, international recruiting is a way for businesses inside and outside of Iran to fill skill shortages and make foreign market connections.

Companies in all industries worldwide should consider developing international recruitment strategies with Iran. The lifted sanctions will allow their economy to grow and expand, creating business opportunities; facilitating this growth and innovation will include international recruitment strategies from companies inside and outside of Iran.