“In China hire people you can fire? What are you talking about?” Anyone coming from “at will” employment America will be, or has been, rudely awaken by China’s protection of its workers. So what would I mean if I said to hire people you can fire? Several years ago, a company called me in to […]
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No one gets a bachelors in interviewing. Sometimes, I think it might help if people did. Many bad interview methods and habits develop as people learn mostly by personal experience. We are reinventing the wheel. Managers become happy with bad habits and even tell their friends to do it. There are innumerable ways to try […]
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Dan Harris of China Law Blog has a blog on China sourcing corruption that I cannot pass up posting on. Note this quote: About 45 percent of all sourcing agents are corrupt. About 45 percent of all sourcing agents are incompetent/worthless. About 10 percent of all sourcing agents are invaluable. That sounds about right. We […]
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I like Jim Collin’s books to include How the Mighty Fall. In that book, he recounts that there may be only one best way to succeed, but there are countless ways to fail. We have a new look on that for doing business in China. Some companies are very successful in the West, but struggle […]
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I saw a Quote that made me think of gut feel recruiting versus the facts even though the article is about science. But the scientific community is nervous. Science – and specifically the scientific method – is at risk in an era of fake news, anti-expert feeling, and science denialism. Healthy scepticism is at the […]
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China bad hire costs cannot always be fully calculated. Good hire benefits have the same issues. Some people at Career Builder put together some numbers 3 years ago indicating a bad hire costs more than 300,000 RMB in China. I think we all can nod our head and say, “Yes, more than 300,000.” It is not […]
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My team likes to buy things that are good quality. We also like to do Top Quality China Recruiting. It feels good doing things that are just what the customer needs. We believe that the customer needs to be able to sleep well at night, and we want to too. Let me explain. If we […]
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Recruitment agency China thinking could mean that we are a middle man who connects two parties. It could go like this. “Oh, you need a welding manager? Frank is a welding manager and needs a job. You two talk. Bye.” Most recruiters are not like that but all seem far from where we are in […]
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I saw a great quote suitable for China recruitment thinking from Earl Richburg on LinkedIn. “Resumes and online applications do not tell the whole story.” This is so well said. Our company could not agree more from our viewpoint in China. We further add that interviews do not tell the whole story either. SHI Group […]
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Getting the right person for your China leadership team is critical to your success in China. Excellent Executive Search China should not be a roll of the dice. Excellent Executive Search China Needs a Lot Your recruiter needs to: 1.Take time to get to know what you really need The right recruiter asks very good […]
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