Finding the best candidates in China is no easy trick. I have a really good eye for good talent and made a handful of wrong turns before I was ready to start my own company. Let’s look at two hurdles.
Getting to a good pool of candidates is the first hurdle. Some Westerners can get into Chinese resume platforms. Being good once you get in there is a long path but doable. All recruiters can get you here. We see that in the internet age, everyone can be found. Recruiters used to have a rolodex. They could remember everyone they met and met so many as had to meet so many. Standards for getting just what you wanted were actually quite low, but the recruiters knowing everyone could give you some protection against liars if so motivated.
In the internet age, everyone can be found if you care to work hard and find. So that is a small question in the internet age.
Finding the Best Candidates in China is SHI Group’s Daily Work
The next step is filtering and that got at least 10 times harder than before the internet. Recruiters did not adjust to that new reality. Recruiting customers were thrilled at the new quality resumes they were getting. The problem is that most were not true and no one asked, so bad hires and company drama and negative affects get worse. For your first hire in China that person often becomes a wall that gives you a false impression of the truth. It is super common. Often customers come to us perplexed as that first hire was feeding them wrong info.
It does not have to be that way. SHI Group solves this kind of problem. However, it is much better to prevent it at the start. Regardless, of what stage you are in, we can help you get someone who is a talented window and not a wall.