Archive for talent
July 3, 2008 at 2:44 pm · Filed under talent, hong kong, scholarship, students, china
Last June, a record 10.5 million young Chinese participated in the national College Entrance Examination (CEE), up half a million from the year before. The CEE is the largest test of its kind in the world.
Whether these students succeed or fail on the exam determines their competitiveness for future jobs and changes the course of their lives in this demanding society. This year, there are twice as many candidates as there were university spots. In turn, the top universities in China and Hong Kong are competing for zhuangyuan—a Chinese term for exam champions from each city and province, numbering around 70 each year nationally.
Of the 614,000 students in Guangdong Province, 21-year old Yang Yang was the 2007 CEE Champion. After turning down an offer from Tsinghua University, a top university in China, he now studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Read the rest of this entry »
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July 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm · Filed under talent, executives, china, recruitment
The nation faces a critical shortage of top managers, a situation that could threaten its economic boom.
Chief executive Li Hsu had a problem. The head of Fiberxon, a California manufacturer of components for communications networks, spent three months searching for a vice president of his main operations, which are in China. He finally landed one–who left three months later for a better offer. For another top job, Hsu poached a candidate from one of his vendors in Taiwan. In China, he says, it’s easy to find weak recruits, but topnotch talent? That’s tough–very tough.
China faces a critical shortage: experienced, highly skilled managers. The numbers are astounding. The country has some 25,000 state companies, 4.3 million private firms and massive industrial overcapacity. But it has too few experienced managers for even the elite firms. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 3, 2008 at 10:00 am · Filed under jobs, talent, china, recruitment
Multinational companies’ (MNC)’s hiring expectations have largely declined in the second quarter, after sustaining a high level for a long period, but are rising in some sectors, a recently released human resources report said.
However, most respondents of globally leading recruitment and HR management firm Hudson’s survey remained optimistic, saying they considered an imminent recession in China’s employment market unlikely.
The global Hudson Hiring and HR Trends Quarterly Report surveyed 718 executives of MNCs in China from sectors including banking and financial, IT and technology (IT&T), manufacturing, consumer, and media, public relations and advertising.
It said overall hiring expectations in the emerging market are declining, with 52 percent of respondents expecting to increase headcount, compared with 61 percent in both the previous quarter and the corresponding period of 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 5, 2008 at 4:11 pm · Filed under shanghai, fashion, talent, expats, china, recruitment
Last summer, Peter Ng traveled to Nottingham Trent University in England, home to one of Europe’s top design schools, to recruit a team of young fashion designers.
The candidates he met dreamed of designing for the fashion houses in Milan and Paris. Mr. Ng, director of yarn manufacturer Colour Couture, made a different pitch: a job in Shanghai designing collections using the company’s yarns, for marketing to trendy U.S. brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch.
A few weeks later, Mr. Ng was back in Shanghai rolling out the welcome mat for three Nottingham Trent recruits, including 24-year-old Laura Hintz and 22-year-old Eleanor Gould, both graduates. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 29, 2008 at 2:36 pm · Filed under overseas, talent, expats, graduates, china, recruitment
American-born Thomas Kwan’s career has taken off since he moved to China to work as the country manager for a U.S. health products company.
“If I’d stayed in the U.S. I wouldn’t have had the same opportunity for advancement,” said trilingual Kwan, 46, who was brought up in a Cantonese-speaking household in Virginia and also speaks fluent Mandarin and of course English.
“The U.S. is still a Caucasian-dominated society,” added Kwan, who now lives in Shanghai.
China’s rapidly expanding economy has created a seemingly insatiable appetite for Chinese-speaking managers. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 24, 2008 at 6:18 pm · Filed under talent, hong kong, recruitment
61% of Employers in Hong Kong Struggling to Find Qualified Job Candidates
Manpower Hong Kong released today the results of its third annual talent shortage survey, revealing that 61 percent of employers in Hong Kong are finding it more difficult to fill jobs. The top three candidates most in demand are: Sales Representatives, Management/Executives and Accounting and Finance Staff. As a follow-up to its 2007 and 2006 surveys, Manpower Inc. surveyed nearly
43,000 employers across 32 countries and territories including 625 employers as part of the third survey in Hong Kong, to determine which positions employers are having difficulty filling this year due to lack of available talent. Globally, the survey found that 31 percent of employers worldwide are finding it more difficult to fill jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
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