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Slow Saturday
2008-06-07 08:20:00 Social media is still not as well understood as it should. Maybe this video can help ... More About: Saturday , Slow
The Importance of Tea
2008-06-06 07:39:00 In most households in China problems are solved by making a 'cup 'o cha', and offering a listening ear. More About: Assessment
Passing for Competent
2008-06-05 05:19:00 Bookish people, who study hard to achieve multiple degrees or other educational certifications, are to be admired for their effort. More About: Assessment , Passing
China?s Scrap Economy
2008-06-02 07:26:00 When I arrived in China back in the mid-90s, one of the things I first noticed was the number of people that magically appeared late at night, and sorted through people’s rubbish. It wasn’t possible to feel good for their situation, but I admired their pluck. Entrepreneurialism is admirable wherever it may be found. At a ... More About: Economy , Scrap , Assessment
Retaining In-house Recruiters
2008-05-31 01:58:00 The imploding HR team is a relatively common phenomenon in China right now, much more so than it was in previous years. Retaining the people who do the retaining is a big challenge. In one case that I heard of recently, three in-house recruitment managers resigned from XYZ Company in the space of eight months alone. This was compounded by ... More About: House , Assessment
Ups & Downs of China?s Labor Shortages
2008-05-29 04:11:00 On a recent trip overseas I struggled to explain skills shortages for both professionals and workers in a land of 1.3 billion people, with the added contradiction of a shortage of jobs for Chinese graduates. I’m still not convinced that anyone really and truly believed me, even if the problem is 3-4 years old now. The difficulty was partly to be found in the cultural distance, ... More About: China , Labor , Assessment
Acquiring Headhunter Skills - Part IV
2008-05-26 07:03:00 It's one thing for me to talk through how headhunters work; how you can acquire their skills; and how you can bring these skills in-house to your HR department. It's another thing to actually see a headhunter in action. More About: Assessment , Part , Skills , Headhunter
Ways To Help China Earthquake Victims
2008-05-17 08:18:00 On the well-off East Coast of China there is a disembodied sense of powerless in the face of nature's power, and an outpouring of grief and financial support for the victims of the earthquake in Sichuan. More About: Earthquake , Victims
Experienced Talent Leaving China
2008-05-15 08:52:00 China’s entrepreneurs have had a long history of taking opportunities wherever they present themselves. In the distant past this was definitely overseas, but in the last 20 years there have been much more opportunities in China itself. Now China’s bigger companies are moving overseas again, flush with the cash they made in the thriving China market, and ... More About: China , Assessment , Talent , Leaving , Experienced
Teamwork Training with Cars
2008-05-12 13:09:00 Driving in China is a bit like taking your life, and putting it in someone else’s hands. The logic is that whoever gets there first wins, and cutting in is not the exception. It’s the standard practice. If driving in traffic were in the Olympics, this is one sport where China would not be winning gold. Teamwork is a ... More About: Cars , Development , Training
Chongqing Development
2008-05-11 10:09:00 It can be very hard to get across the sheer scope and depth of the changes that are happening in China. Hiring difficulties are just the end result of massive economic development, and the inevitable skills lag. This video about Chongqing city in the West of China, from Current.com, gets the idea across better than I ever could. Time to switch ... More About: Development
Acquiring Headhunter Skills - Part III
2008-05-09 17:04:00 Another element of the headhunter’s core competence is the strength and depth of his or her own personality. Headhunter s have to survive by their own wits so they better have something to offer. HR clearly will never need to work like this but there are advantages to getting an understanding of how intense this environment is. The starting point is that headhunters ... More About: Assessment , Part , Skills
Desperate to Hire, Willing to Pay
2008-05-07 08:31:00 He says that Manpower has 10,000 unfilled job requests on their books in China. Yes, that is 10,000 positions, and not 1,000, or even 100. It's quite an admission, and clearly illustrates the huge scale of the hiring challenge in China. More About: Hire , Benefits , Desperate
China Data or China Insight
2008-05-05 08:41:00 The American Chamber of Commerce in China just issued their 2008 China Business Climate Survey. Meanwhile, the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research (CAMR) also released their own reports on the overall development of the Chinese economy. The contrast in styles is illuminating, and may help to shed some light on ... More About: Development , Data , Insight
Higher Salary, Continued Dissatisfaction
2008-04-28 09:39:00 It’s about the most unlikely source of information about workplace issues in China, but the Journal of Happiness’ recently published study; “The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy”, offers a look inside the motivation of people (staff) in China. The study backs up the notion that people do not necessarily become happier when they ... More About: Workforce Planning , Salary , Higher
Work - The Google Way
2008-04-24 08:26:00 It started out two years ago with a viral email that was sent around China showing pictures of the Google offices in Beijing. They looked pretty much like this first set below. No one is sure who sent the original email but it did a better job of building a Recruitment Brand than all the initiatives that ... More About: Work , Workforce Planning
Slow Saturday
2008-04-19 08:14:00 It used to be that if you thought of the word BIG, the United States came to mind. Texas ranches, skyscrapers, biggest doughnuts, largest ball of string etc. but more and more it is China that acts a substitue for LARGE. More About: Saturday , Slow
Acquiring Headhunter Skills - Part II
2008-04-18 19:04:00 In Part I we saw that headhunters operate in a very different world from internal recruiters and HR professionals. They take a long term approach, and they give to receive, without an expectation of immediate reciprocation. But what specific actions do they take, and how are these different from the actions HR normally take?. More About: Assessment , Skills , Headhunter
Acquiring Headhunter Skills - Part I
2008-04-14 09:35:00 Headhunters are often thought to be the kind of people who can go out and acquire excellent job candidates for their clients, just at a the drop of a hat. We all know it's not that easy but it is the common perception of people outside the human resource field. More About: Assessment , Part , Skills , Headhunter
Watching China?s Rise
2008-04-09 07:10:00 From a hiring perspective you could just as easily be watching the rise of salaries in China , but if you want a visual illustration as to why the War for Talent in China is so difficult to win, this video comparison of exports in Asia over the past 14 years is just the ticket. You can actually see China ... More About: Workforce Planning , Watching , Rise
Slow Saturday
2008-04-05 08:20:00 It’s the 36th International Exhibition of Invention which was held on the 2nd April in Geneva. This invention allows you to see your hair from all angles when you brush or comb it. A must have for all discerning gentlemen. Need I say more …. Tip ‘O the Hat to Andrew Sullivan More About: Saturday , Slow
China Then, China Now
2008-04-04 08:51:00 Sometimes working in China can feel like pushing an elephant up a steep slope but at least with the elephant you will get to the top eventually. You just have to try reeeallly hard. More About: Workforce Planning
Truth, Beauty & the Halo Effect
2008-04-02 08:37:00 A study published last year in Personal Relationships suggests that people who are perceived as honest and helpful are actually seen as better looking. Yup, truthies are beautiful, and liars are ugly. More About: Halo , Truth , Beauty , Psychology , Effect
? Act Local
2008-03-28 07:01:00 Recent research by Dr Jos Gamble of Royal Holloway, University of London suggests that ‘going local’ is not necessarily the way forward. Some international business values are worth defending. But this is not the only view in town. Manpower China worked with Right Management to conduct a survey that came out with a distinctly different slant on things. ... More About: Local , Workforce Planning
Think Global But ?.
2008-03-26 09:47:00 When a company sets up operations in China they appear to be faced with two distinct choices: ?going local?, or imposing the dominant business culture of their organization. It?s not an easy choice, and there are no clear cut answers as to which route will bring you the best results. In the absence of a definite ... More About: Global , Workforce Planning
Think Global, But ….
2008-03-26 06:59:00 When a company sets up operations in China they appear to be faced with two distinct choices: ‘going local’, or imposing the dominant business culture of their organization. It’s not an easy choice, and there are no clear cut answers as to which route will bring you the best results. In the absence of a definite conclusion it can become a battle of wills to see which culture will win. Choose the local culture and you will be in a position to motivate local staff more effectively, but much of the operations of the business will become opaque to non-locals. Things will get done but not necessarily the way the Headquarters wants them to. What you gain in effectiveness, as defined locally, you lose in visibility. Many companies, on the other hand, take the approach that there is a perfectly good culture within their organization, one that has served them well for many years in many countries, and that China is no different. These companies attempt to bring everybodyÂ... More About: Global
Hiring in Difficult Times
2008-03-24 10:06:00 Over the past year or so, many people in China have had the lingering suspicion that a slowdown in hiring was a distinct possibility. Each month it didn’t arrive but each month the likelihood was raised again. Mea Culpa. It’s hard to see a fall when you have never fallen down before, and at this point I am beginning to ... More About: Hiring , Assessment , Times
Hiring That Gorgeous Secretary
2008-03-22 08:23:00 That gorgeous Secretary that graces your frontdesk was at least partly chosen for her good looks. There!, I said it. The sky didn’t fall down. Discriminating in favor of someone who makes your company look good to customers and internal company visitors is the same as choosing a Sales Representative who ‘presents well’. It makes sense. But choose people ... More About: Hiring , Assessment , Gorgeous
Competitive Intelligence for Recruiters
2008-03-19 07:01:00 Intended as a little peek into the future, the Electronic Recruiting Exchange recently worked with Classified Intelligence to poll 177 recruiters and HR executives about Web 2.0, and its implied consequences for human resource departments. The report is for sale on the Classified Intelligence site. The results indicate a definite shift to the new technologies. It’s not a big shift but ... More About: Assessment , Competitive
Clarifying the Labor Law
More articles from this author:2008-03-17 08:05:00 As part of the normal legislative cycle, the Chinese government is drafting regulations governing the implementation of the new Labor Law. Don’t worry, Leprauchans are not involved but a little ‘magic’ might be a welcome addition. For many people overseas the appearance of new regulations does not make much sense because it sounds like there are ... More About: Assessment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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