Have you ever thought about Transparent China Recruiting? I have been thinking about it since 1997. You actually need two transparent groups. First, you need recruiters to be transparent. Then you need candidates to be transparent. If you have that, then recruiting is quite straight forward. I did that everywhere for many years here. Finally, […]
Continue Reading →Adam Grant is a management guru from Wharton. He hit the nail on the head when he said the most prominent person sees the least. I say that goes double for China. Many Chinese people will not tell anything sensitive to Westerners bosses at all. Most Chinese managers are talented manipulators with Western bosses. Surely, […]
Continue Reading →Have a good China team with its nose to the ground noting developments in China? Great. Let’s think more as China for China has risks. It is, however, worth mentioning that doubling down on China-for-China strategy comes with its own set of challenges. A very local team with limited expats potentially poses challenges from a […]
Continue Reading →Messy advice from authoritative organizations makes it hard to hire right. Today, I want to comment on a famous article from the New Tork Times called How to Hire Right. As usual, if anyone actually follows the smart sounding advice, they will be wondering why it did not work. There is very little here that […]
Continue Reading →Recruitment is hard. So hard. I cannot imagine being a normal recruiter. Normal recruiters make the placement 1 out of 5 times. Many even less often than that. 80% of their effort is all for nothing. Thus, their disappointment is vast. Result is high turnover or worse yet, burn out. They are still there, but […]
Continue Reading →What lie do candidates make? People who lie on their resumes and in interviews do not do it randomly. People do it to cover up the very thing that you should know. They know they did something wrong, so they cover it up. They do it to make themselves look good in ways that make […]
Continue Reading →The crap shoot of recruiting in China is no easy business, so we worked hard to develop a made for China recruitment process to get the right people the first time and to find the diamonds in the rough. However, you our customers have your own experience and way of handling recruiting. How do you […]
Continue Reading →With 20 plus years of experience here in China, what comes to my mind for what I would want in a China recruitment agency? Speed Quality High ROI Good Service Now, if I think a little more, I would order them in order of what I would want. Let me try. What Do I Really […]
Continue Reading →If I say the recruiting process is broken, most heads nod. Most recruiters have moved to algorithm key word recruiting without any progress. Well, it sounds good and saved them a lot a labor. Just the same people can only nod that the recruiting process is still broken. Medium has up a post noting in […]
Continue Reading →Be kind. This gets that person to be kind. The ripple effects are super valuable. Once you master that then hire for skill and kindness in China. A study shows that being kind to someone leads them to be kind though often not to the same person. Kindness given has a ripple effect In my […]
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