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10 Tips for Seeking Out Truly Remarkable Employees

Every HR professional expects to find excellent employees for their company. But picking out the best out of hundreds or even thousands of interviewees is no easy job at all. Generally, when an HR person interviews someone with outstanding skills or techniques that exactly fit the needs of the company, he or she becomes very confident to recommend the interviewee to move on in the interview process. However, excellent technical skills are not the only key elements which could define an outstanding employee. So that leads us to topic of how to define remarkable employees and how to distinguish them from the masses!  1.         Employees filled with lots of passion and positive energy An HR will always fail to get […]

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Are You Ready for the Pre-interview

EXCITED about your first interview with a big Chinese manufacturer? Trying on outfits in the mirror? Are you imagining yourself suavely conversing with high-level managers, delighting them with your sharp wit? Time to wake up! The bad news is that overconfidence can torpedo your chances in an upcoming job interview. I’ve laughed my way through dozens of lackluster interviews and could share quite a few stories with you. But more importantly, I want to share some practical tips about pre-interview preparation. First things first, a good first impression is half the offer. Lots of foreigners do not really take their interviews with Chinese HR people seriously. Some show up dressed in T-shirts, jeans or even flip-flops. Others appear in wrinkled […]

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Are you ready to perform?

HEARING the keyword “performance,” you might think about your favorite drama show, TV series, or key performance index. But our topic today is a different type of performance. Here, what I mean is how you perform in interviews with Chinese HR professionals. Having advised you how to prepare for the pre-interviews in the last article, this time I will go through the interview process to give you more practical tips. Hopefully, you will find them useful when you take to the interview “stage.” First things first, I have always believed that nonverbal communication issues are important in the interview process, not because HR professionals will judge you based on your looks and deportment, of course, but things like eye contact […]

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Jumping off the gravy train

The government’s anti-corruption drive has partly resulted in a decline in the number of people willing to work for the civil service Dai Qiming’s memories of his first day as a civil servant are as fresh as those of the day he left the service. Dai gazed across at a vast space in Xintiandi, Shanghai’s most cosmopolitan district, where he spent seven years overseeing expat communities, and the rows of 40-story commercial towers that radiate in every direction. The area is proud of its record as a heavy taxpayer. It houses the headquarters of about 50 multinational corporations and is home to flagship stores for top-end luxury brands, including Vera Wang and Harry Winston. “I thought I’d become glamorous along […]

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China Insight: Get the mind-changing project started in job changing

During the period of the so called ’golden September’ and ‘silver October’ in the Chinese proverb, which means a good time for people to look for new job opportunities, the job market in China is full of vitality and vigor. Back to the 1960s, most Chinese took jobs that they prepared to do the work for their whole life. The perseverance and sense of responsibility have built a solid generation. The senior generation now describe the young generation as quite unsettled and ‘picky’ about work. It makes sense to some extent for the old generation in China to place a high value on stability. However, to view the issue in modern China, I think it’s time for people to refresh […]

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Panasonic offers China workers pollution compensation — RMG CEO quoted in the Financial Times

Panasonic has become the first international company to declare it will pay employees it sends to China a premium to compensate them for the dangerous levels of pollution in the country. The Japanese group announced the changes on Wednesday, citing the high levels of PM2.5 in some urban Chinese areas. Particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrograms or less can enter the human blood stream through a person’s lungs and contribute to asthma, cancer or heart trouble. Employees sent to China by Panasonic typically receive a more generous remuneration package because it is classed as a “hardship posting”, but until now no explicit mention has been made of growing concern over the dire air quality in the country. Unrelenting smog has become a focus for public discontent, particularly in […]

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Getting right fit is harder than it looks

International fashion brands need to cut their cloth to suit the Chinese market As world-renowned consumer goods companies enter China, a series of problems has sprung up in the Chinese market for international fashion brands. Fashion brands such as Zara, C&A, Uniqlo and H&M bear striking similarities. Although they come from different cultural backgrounds, the brands will inevitably confront difficulties that international fashion brands face in China. Mango, a Spanish brand, entered China at an early stage but was forced to shut shops after posting dismal sales figures, and gradually faded out of the market. The first difficulty that the fashion companies face is fierce competition among international brands. Esprit and Mango are among the brands that have faced serious […]

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公司上市了,跟你有什么关系?

停摆了1年多后,A股IPO于2014年1月重启,这加速了各种公司上市的步伐。根据CVSource投中数据终端显示,2014年1月,共有55家中国企业在全球资本市场完成IPO,合计募集资金490亿元,其中有43家中国企业在A股完成上市。还有更多的企业已经备齐了材料在等待证监会的批文。 在这股热潮中,比起那些分析机构、投资人、股评家的分析,相信在企业上市这个问题上,“与我有什么关系”才是公司人更关心的。

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Day breaks in china’s logistics industry

MENTION logistics, and perhaps a busy port comes to mind. We may then recall how Rotter­dam was unarguably once the world’s busiest port, for 40 years. Yet, in just a few years this logistical crown was usurped by Singapore, among the most thriving of countries in Asia. How is the logistic industry going on in the Chinese market? Find out in Ruben’s latest article published on China Today “Day Breaks in China’s Logistics Industry”! The term “logistics” was first coined in 1927 by U.S. scholar Ralph Borsodi. Yet logistics services actually originated in military usage, and logistics has since come to play a major role in today’s global supply chain. Among all types of logistic services, however, third-party logistics (TPL) […]

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HR Attention – China Logistics Talent under The Spotlight

  Do you know that logistic industry is in the shortage of talent? Find out the answer in Robert Parkinson’s article on Business Tianjin. As the development of economic globalization and the rise of the network economy move ahead quickly, global logistics services start to accelerate development. Because of logistic employee shortages, this sector is now one of the top 12 talent shortage industries! For human resource professionals, have you started to consider how to attract qualified logistics talent to stimulate business development? Come and read the insights from Robert! As the development of economic globalisation and the rise of the network economy move ahead quickly, global logistics services start to accelerate development. Because of logistic employee shortages, this sector […]

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