Recently, I was invited by the career center of a top mainland business school program to deliver a talk to a room full of their first year MBAs.  The career center wanted me to share with their students an insider’s perspective of what employers pay attention to most when assessing and selecting candidates in hiring situations.  By knowing what some of those things are, their students could also pay greater attention to them as well as they pursued their MBA and career success.

What We See Every Day

In fact, as professional recruiters, we have a unique view of the interviewing and decision-making process for the hiring situations that go on within leading, global companies.  Each day, we screen middle to senior managers for IT, consulting, financial services, consumer products and services, and manufacturing and manufacturing services industry positions.  In doing so, we end up assessing every type of bilingual/international-oriented candidate that you can think of, that include homegrown, returnee, regional, and overseas Chinese professionals, as well as Mandarin-speaking, non-Chinese professionals.  Most have reputable company backgrounds, as well as MBAs, attractive job titles, and other impressive credentials. 

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Wang & Li Launches Its

Career Development, Q&A Program!

http://chat.wang-li.com/

(Every other Tuesday evening, from 20:30pm - 21:30pm, Beijing time)

As many of you know, Wang & Li  is dedicated to providing our China job market, hiring trends, and career development insights and expertise to as many people as we can.  For instance, we currently provide our content and advice through our bi-month E-newsletter, English and Chinese websites, as well as many presentations to professional organizations and top MBA programs. 

At this time, we are pleased to announce our newest channel to deliver our career content to you, through our bi-weekly, on-line, Career Development, Q&A Program.   This interactive, chat program will allow you to speak directly with our experienced management team and consultants about China job market and mainland career issues that are highly relevant and important to you.  Most of our Career Development, Q&A Programs will involve our Managing Director, Larry Wang as the featured speaker/moderator, who will lead discussions on pre-selected, career-related topics every other Tuesday evening, from 20:30pm - 21:30pm, Beijing time. 

We invite you to join us on-line for our upcoming Career Development, Q&A Programs (please see below for schedule and pre-selected topics).  Through this interactive format, we look forward to getting to know many of you better, as well as finding out what’s on your mind regarding what will help you to better pursue and develop your career success in China.

Calendar of Upcoming Career Development, Q&A Program Topics

To join any of our Career Development, Q&A Programs, please visit http://chat.wang-li.com/.  Just key in any user name you like and you’re all set (no password required).  For more info, please click here.

Adjusting To A Less Established, Company Situation

By Leila Liu

Over the years, our company has had many opportunities to place candidates in key management positions for the portfolio companies of our private equity and venture capital clients.  When talking to potential candidates who work in multinational or large international companies, they frequently ask me about whether their more established, company backgrounds working with well-trained colleagues will fit a more start-up, entrepreneurial situation, and if I think they can be successful in such an environment. 

The Chance To Do More

I would say, from one aspect, their professional experience and understanding of international processes and standards will contribute greatly to a less mature environment that is trying to adopt such standards and business practices.  For those seeking the chance to take on a leadership role for their particular function, yet don’t see that opportunity coming soon in their current job, a start-up situation provides many more opportunities for them to set-up, lead, and drive a function and team.  In addition, such situations also provide them with opportunities make the kind of contributions that impact a business in a huge way. 

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