Toxic work cultures are always a bane but more research shows how bad. I here list a LinkedIn article that says people leave toxic work environments more than we thought. She notes it rates higher than people leaving a bad boss. Then she had this amazing quote from Google. Interestingly, research by Google and others has found […]
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Forbes has up a great article on cybersecurity in the age of IOT, and it naturally touched on cybersecurity and recruiting. See whole article here. Note this quote. La Huis notes that insider risk is frequently a bigger threat than an outside entity. That insider risk can come in the form of employees deliberately subverting […]
Continue Reading →I have not recruited outside China so cannot comment on salesmen outside China. I can say with authority that recruiting Salesmen in China is super hard. Now, it can be easy I suppose. Get some resumes and hire the guy who talks best. I am sure that has led to most companies seeing they have […]
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I have written quite a bit about the state of recruiting in China. I think each company has enough on its plate and has its own thinking on the recruiting problem. It is quite reasonable. Let me say what I see in China among Western companies here. Recruiting China Has a Lot of Situations Companies […]
Continue Reading →Take a look at this from Renaud on his always excellent China Manufacturing Improvement Blog. The gap in quality sourcing must be narrowed by hiring too. More precisely, top managers have suspicions about kickbacks from suppliers to the purchasing staff. This is so common, I guess I should not elaborate on this. We have seen a […]
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After reading Renauds Anjoran’s article at Jacob Yount, I shook my head and said, “Wow, Transparency is the new normal.” He is advancing this thought based on seeing the millenials who love and even demand transparency. So the companies need to provide it as their workers and this growing customer base demands it. They are […]
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First time recruiting success is certainly what everyone wants. How do we get there? Given that we have a 95% first time success rate, I guess we are the authority on this question. Let me tell you how we get there. You have some sense of what you want. Often you are not very clear, […]
Continue Reading →Tom Phillips died last month and should not be quickly forgotten. Never heard of him? Now is a good time. His Alma Mater put up a synopsis of Tom,and I want to add thought here. Tom took a good company called Raytheon and made it a great company. How did he do it? First, “He […]
Continue Reading →This is China. Have you ever heard this phrase from your China team? It is an altogether too often used phrase. I also think it often represents a pressure to leave a good path. When I first came to China, I often heard the phrase: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It never […]
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