Talent in ChinaTalent in ChinaFocused on the talent acquisition cycle in China from candidate identification, through onboarding to exit. Articles
Cultural Conflict in Hiring & Retention
2007-11-01 06:40:00 Every issue, from task implementation to work-life balance is approached in a different way in China. This is not in any way a criticism. Different is not the same as bad, or ineffective. Different is everywhere you don't come from. More About: Conflict , Hiring , Retention , Cultural , Tent
Candidate Frustration
2007-10-31 08:08:00 Not surprisingly, a recent article from CNN.com and Careerbuilder.com indicates that many job seekers become frustrated after having a face to face interview, only to find out from others that they were rejected and the position was filled More About: Frustration , Assessment , Candidate , Stration
China Talent Force
2007-10-29 07:54:00 There is good news for China with the release of the recent Global Talent Index (GTI), which was put together by Heidrick & Struggles and the Economist Intelligence Unit(EIU). More About: Force , Workforce Planning , Lent
Productive Meetings
2007-10-26 19:11:00 Do you hate meetings? Most people do. In any country, China included, and at any time. More About: Development , Meetings
Video Interviewing
2007-10-25 07:07:00 It's a good feeling when you see what you think might be the Next Big Thing. I just experienced it using a new service called Tokbox. More About: Video
China Online Hiring Adoption
2007-10-24 08:05:00 In the fast paced hiring environment that we have in China right now, just having a career website will not make you a winner. Not even close. More About: Adoption , Online , Hiring , Assessment
New Arrivals
2007-10-23 03:48:00 It's an obvious thing to say but it bears repeating. China is not Paris!. More About: Rivals
Applicant Tracking Woes
2007-10-17 07:52:00 It?s the starting point of a relationship, one that you hope will continue for many years to come. No, it?s not the first date. It?s the period from the time you contact a candidate to their final signature on a Job Offer contract. More About: Tracking
Recruiting in the Third Tier
2007-10-12 07:10:00 The horror position just arrived on your plate. Production Manager in a Third Tier city in China, one that is known for bad weather, heavy pollution and a lack of basic amenities. More About: Recruiting
Dress As a Career Tool
2007-10-08 07:11:00 If, like me, you reject the whole Casual Monday - Casual Friday culture that appears to have infected much of the business world, you will be pleased to hear that recent research shows that your appearance has an enormous impact on the amount of money you earn, and by implication, the rate of development of your career. More About: Tool , Dress , Career , Assessment
Slow Saturday
2007-10-06 08:00:00 After 10 days travelling around India during the Chinese October holidays I was just in the mood for something light and frothy when I came back to China today. Something I could post that would generate wry smiles and endear me to everyone, with a minimal investment on my part. Call me selfish but I just got ... More About: Saturday , Slow
Irrational Salary Escalation
2007-10-02 07:50:00 If you have done economics in college you may have played the 'dollar auction'. The game is used by economics professors to demonstrate how rational decision making processes can quickly, or easily, spiral out of control. The rules of the game are simple. Someone puts forward a dollar bill for sale to the highest bidder. Usually the professor performs this role but anyone can do it. More About: Workforce Planning , Salary , Esca
Data, Data, Data
2007-09-27 08:33:00 Data, data everywhere and no one stops to think. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information on your plate, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Information Anxiety is caused by the ever widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand. Everyone who tries to keep up with just a few ... More About: Data , Workforce Planning
10 Onboarding Tips.
2007-09-24 07:32:00 In China we have a Black Hole in the hiring process and this is the time between signature of the Job Offer and the Onboarding date. The scenario is that the potential new employee goes in to the Black Hole on signing a Job Offer, but often does not come out, and actually onboard. More About: Tips
Stormy Wednesday
2007-09-19 07:09:00 Today’s not a day for posting on the issue of hiring or retention. We’ve got Wipha bearing down on us!!. This post is about fear or neuroticism. Not sure which yet. This will be decided when it hits. Actually typhoon Wipha has already been downgraded to a tropical storm. By the time it passes Shanghai it ... More About: Psychology , Stormy , Wednesday
Job Offer Negotiation
2007-09-17 07:40:00 A salary negotiation is one of those processes that can continue indefinitely, but only with rapidly diminishing returns for both sides. More About: Assessment , Negotiation , Offer
Saving the Plant
2007-09-15 17:53:00 It’s a slow Saturday here in China but in Israel they are all busy saving the world from global warming. Out in the Negev desert, which is an incredible place to visit if you haven’t been there, Professor David Faiman, head of the National Centre for Solar Energy in Israel, has invented a new solar reflector. ... More About: Saving , Plant , The Plant
New PRC Labor Contract Law
2007-09-12 07:47:00 For more than a year now, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (SCNPC) has been reviewing the draft Labor Contract Law.On June 29, 2007, the SCNPC passed the PRC Labor Contract, which will take effect on January 1, 2008 More About: Assessment , Workforce Planning
Screening or Marketing
2007-09-11 18:37:00 Here's a question for you .... Does your company use a screening or a marketing approach to recruitment in China? The basic question is how your company approaches this problem, and whether it is successful or not is not so important. Mostly I seem to see the screening approach. More About: Marketing , Workforce Planning , Cree , Screening
Emerging Recruiter Skills
2007-09-09 08:20:00 Mark is a typical recruiting director. He is middle-aged and has been in the recruiting business for more than 15 years now. Previously he was an HR generalist, and he has a fairly broad background in human resources. More About: Assessment , Skills
Innovation Spirit
2007-09-08 08:51:00 As of writing, on this slow Saturday, China?s central planners are pouring money and resources into the creation of an ?innovation economy?. It seems like a contradiction in terms, and if the efforts of other governments around the world are anything to go by, it probably is. Inno vation requires innovators and they need a society that has the resources to give them the free time to innovate. More About: New Economy , Spirit
Future of Recruiting
2007-09-07 08:08:00 The success or failure of your efforts will rest on an eternal truth. Programs are great for morale but rarely change anything. More About: Recruiting , Future , Workforce Planning
Pressure to Hire
2007-09-07 03:02:00 People generally try to get on with each other. The ones who don?t are weeded out by the ?tall poppy syndrome?. Even when someone acts up a little we tend to be forgiving to varying degrees and according to our own personality. We read negative cues about other people and put them in filing drawer H, ... More About: Hire , Psychology
Throw Out Resumes
2007-09-05 08:02:00 Recruiters sit in comfortable chairs, in comfortable offices, trying to create a mental picture of a job applicant from the only thing they have in their hand, his Resume. More About: Assessment , Throw , Resumes
Hiring Effectiveness
2007-09-04 08:05:00 We spend too much time looking for the wrong candidates. Then when we eventually find the right candidate somebody blows them off because they're "not quite right." More About: Hiring
Interviewer Attention Span
2007-09-04 02:56:00 (Ed: This an ongoing series of posts that presents specific items of actionable advice for HR in China. Call it the Top 10 things to do, or not do.)Â On the surface interviewing seems like a no-brainer. All that seems to be involved is sitting down with someone who has applied for a job and asking ... More About: Attention , Span , Tent
3D Video
2007-09-01 08:13:00 Over the past year or two you may have tired of hearing about how video is going to change the landscape of hiring and coaching. It hasn’t quite yet but perhaps all that is needed is something that creates a little excitement around the idea of actually using video. This 360 degree holographic display might generate ... More About: Video
China All the Rage
2007-08-30 08:14:00 As of writing China is all the rage in the world media. The New York Times frets about the rising salaries in China and how it is feeding into inflation in the US. It's not really fretting when the data justifies the fears. Anecdotal reports indicate that finding and keeping young workers at all skill levels is extremely difficult. Nothing new here. More About: Rage
Open Salaries
2007-08-24 23:39:00 A poll we ran on my blog last year asked 'Would you be in favor of an 'open salary' policy at your company in which everyone's salary was published for all to see? More About: Open , Assessment
Secret Sauce
More articles from this author:2007-08-22 18:42:00 For many pundits, thought leaders and regular citizens talent seems to be those elements of a person that we cannot see but that seem to explain the fact that they can get certain things done. Things the rest of us mere mortals have great difficulty with. We can see and measure candidate intelligence, so that's not talent. More About: Secret , Assessment , Sauce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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