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1 April 2015
The Difference between Recruiting in the UK and Chinese organizations
My Personal Observation
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About Me
Background
Worked in Chinese SOEs in the UK,
UK blue-chip company and other global
companies
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“War for Talent”
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A term coined by McKinsey & Co.
Sums up the key difference in Chinese and Western practices
Chinese way of thinking (also reality)
– plenty of fish in the sea…
Employer Branding
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British company - Local CEO spent half an hour selling candidate our story – the “dream”
Non- existence: talent pool Supply vs Demand
Chinese Company – what YOU can offer vs. what WE can do for you (“You should want to work for a Chinese brand, right?”)
Cultural Empathy
Personal boundaries/ social distance
Questions about privacy
Blurred lines between work and private life
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How Top Companies Hire People
Competency based interviewing
Core competency framework
What do you want everyone in your organisation to be able to do?
Values framework
How do we do things around here?
What’s important to us?
Job description & person spec
What needs to be done?
What type of person can do it?
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“Whatever the present movement contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
- Eckhart Tolle
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Thank you.
Join China Unbound on Meet Up for our future events meetup.com/China-unbound,
or search for the group China Unbound on LinkedIn for our online discussions!
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