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Recruiting is Sales
2007-08-21 00:32:00
Before you begin reading this article, write down all of the reasons your candidates and hiring manager clients, in China or any other country, give you for not moving forward. Here’s my list. How does your own compare?   Don’t have time to talk.   The job (or compensation package) isn’t big enough.   The hiring manager is a jerk.   The ...
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Phone Screens
2007-08-17 14:45:00
A few years ago I talked to the HR team in a large US-based service industry organisation that have multiple locations in China. Their challenge, they told me, was that their hiring process was not successful and demand in China for their services was rising rapidly.
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Rapid E-Learning
2007-08-16 09:45:00
We have all heard a lot about how E-Learning is having a big impact on corporate education, but many people, myself included, believe that it has never lived up to its promise.
More About: Development , Rapid , Earning

The Elephant!
2007-08-15 08:17:00
What would you say about a human body where the heart acts independently from the liver? Where the stomach tries to imitate the kidneys? Where the pancreas insists on doing its own thing? And the brain only knows to do today what it did yesterday?
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Work, The New Retirement
2007-08-13 08:36:00
The is a lot of press these days about the way that Retirement is being redefined. The trends are echoing throughout the world. The wave of baby-boomers entering retirement is going to completely reposition and reinterpret all of our notions about age, financial need, and all of the other aspects associated with being over 50.
More About: Work , Workforce Planning , Tire

10 Sourcing Pillars
2007-08-10 08:45:00
Too many companies fall into the trap of using a "by default" sourcing strategy as their primary means to find top people.
More About: Assessment , Sourcing , Pillars

Sales & HR Technology
2007-08-08 10:12:00
I often advise China-based clients to systematize their sales and HR process so that when key people leave, the company can continue to operate relatively normally.
More About: Technology , Sales , Ology

Retail Rollercoaster
2007-08-04 12:51:00
This is a real supermarket in Shenyang, in the North of China. Wonder if it will catch on? It's basically a big roller coaster.
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Defence Vs Offence
2007-08-03 08:40:00
In spite of declining enforcement, shrinking talent pools, dramatically increased competition and radically better tools, the corporate recruiting function is obsoleting itself by becoming a defense organ.
More About: Defence , Workforce Planning , Fence

Video in the Mix
2007-08-01 08:22:00
It’s always good to pontificate on what’s going to happen in the hiring market because sooner or later you get it right. You can happily forget all the times that you were wrong because they don’t count, right? Sometimes you find supporting material for your assertion because you were right. At other times because your internal ...
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China Future
2007-07-30 09:20:00
A major report entitled ?The Future of China ?s Economy, The Path to 2020 ? Opportunities, Challenges and Uncertainties? just prompted me to ask the members of the Talent in China group the obvious question:

Slow Saturday
2007-07-28 08:26:00
Microsoft recently, or not so recently now, announced a new kind of computer interface called a multi-touch screen. This video on Youtube is the first kind of fun application that I have seen and it's called the iBar.
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China Conference
2007-07-27 07:44:00
The notion of the Make China Your Gold Mountain Conference was always interesting. Take on-the-ground HR practitioners in China and bring them to the US for a conference. Then ask American HR practitioners with an interest in China to attend the conference in San Francisco.
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Candidates Are People
2007-07-26 08:57:00
Candidates should be treated like people. Seems simple enough. Surprisingly, the question we get most often is, "How can we do that?" The first steps are pretty obvious:
More About: People , Candidates , Assessment , Candidate

Online Wars
2007-07-25 08:14:00
The current War for Talent in China has a new victim: The Gaming Industry. According to the Shanghai Daily, gaming companies in China are having to use a variety of different stunts to bring the right people on board. In some cases their efforts are intended to attract individual programmers but in other cases it is entire programming teams that are the target.
More About: Wars , Online , Workforce Planning

Employer Branding
2007-07-24 07:35:00
Robert Half, the big international recruitment company, recently issued an interesting global study on The Rise of the Employer Brand. It makes for interesting reading, even if China was not included in the mix. The study is a summary of interviews with, strangely enough, 2,200 finance managers across 17 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe and America. Why ...
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Sales Professionals
2007-07-22 08:01:00
Salesmen generally fall into two broad categories: customer service oriented ?order takers? and value adding ?problem solvers?. Most multinationals seeking outside sales professionals are looking for value-adders ? who are under-represented in typical China-based companies.
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Slow Saturday
2007-07-21 07:43:00
As of writing, the hiring process in China is slowing a little as expatriate managers from multinational companies begin to take their summer holidays. With many decision makers out of town the slowdown will continue until September, when school starts.
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Better Recruiter
2007-07-18 08:42:00
Do you think the following would qualify as a definition of a better recruiter? Make 25-35% more placements with higher quality candidates Improve your sendout ratio (reduce the number of candidates seen on each search) Attract more top passive candidates Get your technology to work better Get more referrals of top candidates Become a superb negotiator Become a true partner with all of your hiring manager clients Exceed all of your diversity hiring goals Minimize the adverse impact of the OFCCP's ruling on the definition of an applicant Have more time to become a better recruiter
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Attracting Talent
2007-07-16 09:19:00
We have all heard it before. Tale nt attracts talent. Ok, so that's great if you are hiring for the Boston Redsocks or the Dalian Shida Football Club. Or maybe if you are building a research team that will change the internet as we know it. Or even building a research centre in China. What, you might ask, has this got to do with hiring a bunch of sales guys for an industrial product in China!?.
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Slow Saturday
2007-07-14 08:07:00
The iPhone has generated a lot of buzz but not everyone is enamoured of it. Some people even think that putting it in a blender is a good idea. !?!?!?!  Take a look at the video below. It’s real.  
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Demographic Challenge
2007-07-13 08:04:00
At the heart of the challenge of finding people to join your high quality workforce is a great deal of demographic upheaval. Global population, which doubled twice in the past century will only grow by 50% in the next century. That's a slowdown to less than 1/4 of the old growth rate. It already feels like someone slammed on the brakes.
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Modelling Excellence
2007-07-09 17:49:00
Many years ago at a big presentation on staff coaching I was asked about the practical issues related to modelling excellence. The person asking the question wanted to how what specific things they could do to encourage their older staff to show younger staff what they do, and how they do it. I didn’t have a ...
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Easier Hiring?
2007-07-05 11:50:00
After so many years of continuous strong economic growth, and absolutely sizzling rates for the past year or so, most non-HR people would probably be looking at a long hot summer of strong economic growth. HR staff, meanwhile, would mainly be focused on the new Labor Law and its impact on the employer -employee relationship. Both groups would be focused on the wrong thing, if the VAT rebate kicks in as the Chinese government is planning.
More About: Hiring , Workforce Planning

Graduate Confidence
2007-07-04 08:23:00
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise. British research indicates that more than 75% of young people coming to the workplace have a higher estimation of their abilities in comparison to what they can actually offer. It goes on to say that they will find themselves in for a rude shock.
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HR Technology Productivity
2007-07-02 08:56:00
Over 20 years ago I started my career as an Engineer in the newly emerging IT business, and yes, it was pre-IBM PC. For many years I listened to reports telling me that the introduction of computers was not having any effect on staff productivity. Pah!, I thought, showing my age. If I was younger I would probably say, Meh!.
More About: Technology , Productivity , Prod , Ology

Seeing is Believing
2007-07-01 12:11:00
I would not normally post pictures here but these have to be seen to be believed. They are so well done I have difficulty reconciling them with what I have seen on the ground in China. But they are real and photographed in Guilin by Feng Jiang.
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Slow Saturday
2007-06-30 08:08:00
Words have a power all of their own but visuals! Now there’s power … This photo series is a great visual introduction to China. It comes from my favourite magazine, Wired. The picture below is just one of many and I feel it gives a flavour of the dynamism of China in the shortest time possible.    
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
2007-06-28 17:47:00
Over the past few years I have written a lot about Recruitment Process ing Outsourcing (RPO), and it's arrival in China. Based on some small amount of email there are still people who remain unconvinced. Otherwise everyone in China would be doing it. Right?.
More About: Sourcing

Future of Work
2007-06-27 14:51:00
This is an interesting little video that looks at our future, and it’s all digital. Around 2015, according to the prediction, China Central Television (CCTV) comes out as one of the ‘World Universal Content Leaders’, next to Google/Microsoft, Amazon/Yahoo!, CNN and the BBC. But over time these are supplanted until finally we live completely in a ...
More About: Future , Work , New Economy