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?”)

Why there are differences between Chinese/UK recruitment practices

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“Chinese Values”

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Hard work

Good order/control

Resilience/ Toughness (emotionally)

EQ vs IQ

Education! Education! Education!

EQ – why do I need it?!

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Cultural Empathy

Personal boundaries/ social distance

Questions about privacy

Blurred lines between work and private life

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Soft Skills

Can do attitude

Self- starter

Anticipate what they want and give them more!

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A little Bit of Technicality

Structured interview vs. traditional

interview

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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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