Recruiting Taiwan: Too much competition, too little talent
BEIJING: When Grace Li started a recruiting drive through China’s elite universities and technical colleges late last year, she soon turned up about 500 potential employees for her client, a U.S.-based scientific services company.
The company was seeking as many as 150 graduates with basic or advanced degrees to staff a research and development laboratory that it planned to open in China this year.
After careful screening, about 100 candidates were offered jobs to start in June. About 70 accepted.
The drawback was that most of them also accepted offers from two or three other prospective employers and still had not decided which job to take.
For headhunters like Li, competition like this is now commonplace as China’s headlong economic growth outpaces the supply of qualified professionals and managers.
READ: Chinese paradox: A shallow pool of talent
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Hi:
Enjoy your site, have learned a lot. I’ve lived here in Taiwan for several years now, and one of my functions is recruiting, so I can add something to this thread.
Re: the above article, (”Recruiting Taiwan: Too much competition, too little talent”), it seems to be entirely about mainland China, I don’t see any mention of Taiwan — and they are separate — e.g., Taiwan does not recognize degrees from China, there are restrictions on hiring PRC nationals, etc.
Re: the related tag about High Schools here recruiting Jr HS students, I can’t view that image/video but I’ve never heard of/seen anything like this in my time here. To get into the best high schools one must score high on the entrance exams — those schools aren’t recruiting, they’re turning people away.