Let’s give more thought to candidate experience. First, Candidates are much more than a possible hire. Everyone of them is an ambassador of your company because they have had an experience with you or your chosen recruiter. They are living, and they talk. People they talk to are also possible candidates for you. Candidates tell […]
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If you know a top leader who is actively driving away business you might be disturbed, but if you know of two specific instances, then you have a pattern. These things are not usually public, so to know of two means there must be much more. Proper China executive hiring can do away with this. […]
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We have tested a thousand or more candidates using a scale to show if they are in or out of the box thinkers. Results are that not one out of a hundred are out of the box. Chinese creativity seems less that 1%. Further most people test extroverted observant hard thinking rule bound types. Are […]
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I have been recruiting in China since 1997. I started my own recruiting company in 2009. All that I have seen makes me think the recruitment process is broken. Gradually, I have seen factory processes get better and even data focused decision making making headway. Six Sigma is well known and many Western factories have […]
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The three points Davos discovered on success in China are worth looking at. Davos in Holmes Report says Multinationals in China are failing due to three problems: Fail to have whole new thinking in China market and logistics and service. Hiring foreigners to lead as they do what the hq wants so fail at point […]
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Clients often come to us with this very reasonable question. “How do you find hard to find candidates like we have described?” Ah, finding hard to find candidates is what we get paid to do. So let me tell you why I think we consistently succeed. First, we save a lot of time by finding […]
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China Law Blog said you should have a contract with your China friends in business. You are friends, and you think you know them. Get a contract. Do you really know what your China friends are thinking or saying behind your back? Given that, why do you believe candidates who say they sold $1M last […]
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Those of you who have followed me through 600 some blogs know that I often blog on why not to follow Forbes articles on leadership. Today, I will say Brent Gleeson found us 10 good thoughts. To summarize his thoughts: Hire Force Multipliers I went to college at West Point, served in leadership in the […]
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Renaud of the impressive Quality Inspections Blog put up a quick review of Paul Midler’s recent book called What’s Wrong with China Due to the commonality of China kickbacks, it is critical to adjust our hiring strategy here. One thing Renaud says in the review is: I don’t think it’s a stretch to write […]
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It is funny to me how much talk we hear about diversity in companies in America even while they throttle it in China. Let’s talk about Diversity and China. Again and again I see companies who think the Chinese engineer on their home company staff can make a great GM in China. Sometimes they do, […]
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