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Slow Saturday
2008-03-15 10:42:00 Untrue stories from the frontline of hiring……… A little humor to brighten up your weekend. Applicant’s email:… Resumy To hoom it mae cunsern,I waunt to apply for the job what I saw in the paper. I can Type realee quik wit one finggar and do sum a counting. I think I am good on the phone and I no ... More About: Saturday , Slow
Hiring Respite Oversold in China
2008-03-14 07:09:00 Talks of an impact on hiring coming off a slow down in the Chinese economy are a little oversold. The likely scenario is a slowdown in growth with nary a sign ‘o respite for HR or Recruitment Departments. This slowdown in growth would be from an unsustainable level above 10% to a more moderate 8-10%. Moderate here ... More About: China , Hiring , Assessment
Interview & Training Bias
2008-03-13 07:02:00 It’s hard to have good feelings about bias. The word immediately generates negative sentiment and is definitely to be avoided. Bias is ugly because it leads us up the garden path. We can’t even see it in action because it is an inherent part of our cognitive functioning. Knowledge of bias puts things in context and makes ... More About: Training , Interview , Assessment
Outsourcing Soaking up China Tech Skills
2008-03-07 07:50:00 Estimated to be growing at a rate of about 30% per year, China 's software outsourcing industry has been a clear and present danger to your tech team over the past few years, even if you are not aware of the threat. More About: Outsourcing , Tech , Assessment , Skills
Unconscious Incompetence?
2008-03-03 07:01:00 A situation where you do not know what you do not know has to be the worst case scenario for anyone who has to get a result. It’s hard enough to accept the fact that you don’t know certain things, which we know will be true for all of us at some point in our life, but not to ... More About: Development , Incompetence
HR Surveys - Participation Better Than Reading
2008-02-28 06:29:00 So I want to put you on to a survey that focuses on the processes and procedures that are being used by your competitors. These are other HR departments, and also 3rd party recruiters. More About: Reading , Surveys , Participation , Assessment
Hiring & Retention up in China, says Hudson
2008-02-27 18:41:00 The world’s economy, including China , is currently taking a bit of a beating but skills shortages, hiring, staff turnover and salaries are still on the up in China. This is according to the latest Hudson report for 1st Quarter 2008. The most reassuring element of the report says that only 4% of respondents expect their hiring plans ... More About: Hiring , Assessment , Retention
Linkedin For HR & Recruitment
2008-02-26 06:51:00 If you are a fan of Linkedin , and many in China's HR community are, then you have already amassed a base of potential new recruits or business partners. Some people have built huge connection bases and the Linked basics for doing this are fairly well known so it's not much of an accomplishment anymore. More About: New Economy , Recruitment
Skills Competition in China Finance
2008-02-25 08:10:00 According to the Financial Times, we chose the wrong career when we all decided to be makers, doers and helpers. The big money is in moving money around, and the best salary deals in China are being given to deal makers right now. More About: Finance , Competition , Assessment , Skills
Slow Saturday
2008-02-24 05:23:00 The title of this job says it all. It must be a candidate for Best Worst-Ever Job Title, or Worst Best-Ever Job Title...... More About: Saturday , Slow
Got Work? Don?t Ask a Busy Man
2008-02-23 06:14:00 It’s an old adage that if you want work done ask a busy man, or by implication, a busy woman. The reasoning is that a busy person will have no choice but to slot your work into their busy schedule, and they will make sure to do it on time, if they are going to get ... More About: Work , Busy
Want a High Salary? - Be Careful?
2008-02-19 09:35:00 That professional staff in China are not happy with their current salaries comes as little surprise. What is a surprise is that it qualifies as news. Employees in China operate in a candidate’s market and their dissatisfaction with salary is a pure hygiene factor ie. even if you increase their salary they will not suddenly become ... More About: Assessment , High , Salary , Careful
The World Bank Talks Up a Soft Landing
2008-02-18 07:45:00 Bringing its usual reasoned calm to the issue of China’s economic direction, the World Bank just issued a report that signals continued good times for 3rd party recruitment companies, with some possible relief for hiring departments, and an ongoing challenge in retention. The World Bank never uses the expression soft landing but that is essentially what they are suggesting. This is good for ... More About: The World , The World Bank , Soft
Best Practices in a Flat World
2008-02-12 06:28:00 The question that is often posed to me is: Why is strategic management so much more important and challenging today? Answer: Because now we are operating in a flat world. New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Thomas Friedman, clearly explains ten reasons why business challenges are continuously accelerating in an outstanding book, titled: The World ... More About: Assessment , Flat
Happy New Year
2008-02-06 09:40:00 According to traditional beliefs the Year of the Rat, the first of a 12-year cycle, promises hard work and strong potential. The thinking is that a long term view is needed to take advantage of opportunities because only those who persevere will ultimately prevail. More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Assessment
HR Challenges, Fermi Solution
2008-02-01 07:50:00 In 1938 a Physicist called Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Prize for his work on elementary particles. This might not seem very relevant to HR issues but bear with me for a little while ... More About: Solution
Best in Class in China
2008-01-31 08:26:00 In the beginning Chinese managers only needed to be able to speak English, and have a pulse, in order to get a job in a multinational company. English was not just a Halo, it was the Sine Qua Non of job acquisition. More About: China , Development , Class
Global Warming? - It?s Freezing!
2008-01-29 06:55:00 Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, at some point in time. This has long been factored into most people’s thinking but there is another law, Maguire’s Law, that says that not only will things go wrong, they will go wrong at the worst possible time. If you are currently working in sunnier climes, and ... More About: Global Warming , Global , Assessment , Armin
Branding Your Culture
2008-01-28 06:01:00 When recruiting and selecting new hires in China right now, most organizations tend to spend more time on skills and experience, and less on cultural fit. That’s what happens in a War for Talent market. HR is too busy hiring to worry about quality of hire, and 3rd party recruiters are incentivized by high levels of ... More About: Culture , Branding , Assessment
Mandated Salary Increases Considered
2008-01-23 12:35:00 There are looming clouds on the horizon in China with definite signs of wet weather, and not even remotely connected to the presence of bears. Self inflicted rain. The Chinese Ministry of Labor and Social Security is apparently working on a new law that encourages employers to pay higher salaries. It has not been announced as a specific mandate, with ... More About: Workforce Planning , Salary
Candidate Value Proposition (CVP)
2008-01-22 10:24:00 It’s not necessarily an expression you hear too often, and you may never have even heard about Candidate Value Propositions (CVPs) before. They have to be the way forward though, in a tough hiring market like China. How can you differentiate yourself from every-other-company-in-China?. How else can you get to the root of what it is that causes people ... More About: Assessment
Slow Saturday - Winter Wonderland
2008-01-19 09:10:00 A photographer called Todd King has just taken some beautiful shots of the Ice Festival. The sample below is just a teaser and was originally posted on Boing Boing. You can find the rest of Todd's photographs here. More About: Winter , Saturday , Slow
China Labor Law Update
2008-01-18 07:21:00 In order to make a decision on any issue you need all the available information. The new China Labor Law has not actually come into effect yet but the data is coming in, and creating a picture of conflict and hope. More About: Update , Workforce Planning
Performance Management Alignment
2008-01-17 14:24:00 Globally, there has been a continuing misalignment between strategy management and individual performance management. This is particularly true in China. More About: Performance , Management , Workforce Planning , Performance Management , Alignment
China - Lewisian Turning Point?
2008-01-14 07:32:00 Over the past few months there has been talk in economic circles about China reaching the Lewisian Turning Point . More About: Workforce Planning , Turning Point
Strategic Management for the CEO
2008-01-11 06:10:00 Question: How can a CEO meet the varied challenges involved in managing company strategy for successful execution? My colleague, Dr. Yong-Ling Sun, was working on a project when she heard the company CEO deliver a spontaneous speech last month that provided an answer to this question. Consider the words of QingDao Beer?s CEO, Mr. Jin Zhiguo: ?Beginning ... More About: Management , Assessment , Strategic
Taking Responsibility for Actions
2008-01-10 06:54:00 In a study that will be published in the Journal of Family Psychology , researchers have just discovered that 80 percent of parents in the US do not consider their 18-25 year-old college students to be adults. At least in the group of people they surveyed. More About: Taking
HR?s Blindspot
2008-01-08 10:07:00 The FAE is a blindspot we all have when we process information. What happens is that when we interpret other people?s behaviour we overestimate the influence of the other person?s character, and underestimate the influence of their situation and context. More About: Psychology
Dunning-Krueger Effect
2008-01-07 07:02:00 The Dunning-Kruger Effect is the notion that people who have a little knowledge think that they know more than they actually know, while people who have much more knowledge tend to underestimate that knowledge. More About: Psychology , Krueger
Extending Job Offers in 2008
More articles from this author:2008-01-04 08:33:00 It’s 2008 and the new labor law is now the law of the land in China. In front of you is the first candidate that you hope to hire this year, and your GM is looking to you for advice about the offer. What should you tell him? Be not afraid!. I’m not a China employment lawyer but this is ... More About: Offers , Workforce Planning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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