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China Hiring Background Checks Required? Dan Harris on China Law Blog gives a hearty yes. He here said what his China firm is seeing. I have pasted on how he sees our experience in finding 15 out 15 were materially lying in the recruiting process. I suspect many are surprised by the above, but I can […]
Continue Reading →A China hiring background check, also known as pre-employment background screen, is not emphasized in most companies here in China. To see the legal issues in China background checking, check here. It is a lot more trouble than a cursory background check, but our business knows it is important because of what we find out. […]
Continue Reading →Wow, getting used to COVID-19 is a like a bad dream. However, this bad dream may last 2-3 years if it is anything like the Spanish flu. That flu had 4 recorded waves and may have had an earlier unrecorded wave that no one realized in 1917. It ended in 1920. We are at the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Chinese Morality is on the table today. China is growing and will keep growing because the government is smart and capable to find a good path to keep things going. However, I wanted to send you this quote from Sinica. China’s lack of affordable housing, its food and air pollution, the country’s poor education system […]
Continue Reading →Since the end of January, China has been focused on killing off COVID-19. Shocking to see 1.4 Billion Chinese people in lock step to kill off the pandemic at its source. Let’s talk about the economic and cultural impacts. Economically. the effects have been devastating. China did roughly 50 days of social distancing and various […]
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Recently, I visited the beautiful city of Ningbo, and this time I took a train and a taxi. What happened made me start thinking about crafty managers in China. I took a taxi to my destination and was shocked the meter said 68 RMB. Then, I asked for a receipt. Finally, I took a taxi […]
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Brooking put up a great study on Chinese urbanization that we should consider. The Chinese government loves that a famous Western economist said there are two big forces for global prosperity in this century. US technical innovation Chinese Urbanization So why is this a big thing? What does it have to do with doing business in […]
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China is a great country that I love. Due to its great size, you can travel far and still be in China. Chinese people can find everyone speaks their language and understand the world a lot like they do even out that far away. It seems like the whole world agrees even though you are […]
Continue Reading →LinkedIn is a great company that I highly respect, but I would never counsel anyone to follow their best China business advice on hiring in China which you can see here. Digging deeper in recruiting is necessary. Here is one quote that appears wise but has gotten many companies in deep water. The best chance at […]
Continue Reading →Hubris(Pride) is a word emphasized in the book How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins who also wrote Good to Great. The start of the fall for good companies is Hubris in How the Mighty Fall. Hubris/Pride in China leads to the same thing for Western Companies. I write all this as all this came […]
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