Every hire you make in China is a window or wall. Some Western company hires make you smarter in China and some make you dummer. Let me start slow.  Some hires tell you “This is China.” and that is meant to end discussion. Others are here to help you know how to thrive in China in the world that exists here.  It has its own design and getting inside it is so important. How can you make good decisions without all the information? Or with bad data? Everyone agrees the we should understand first and decide second. In my own culture in the US that may mean 10 minutes. In China it may mea ..read more

No one doubts that candidates are more than a resume. Hiring Managers actually have a much bigger vision. However, the resume has a mystical effect. Once a resume is in hand, the color of everything changes, and all the nice sounding thoughts disappear. We hear that this candidate changed jobs too frequently. SHI Group  knows that 90% of the perfect resumes changed jobs to frequently, but falsified their resumes to show long terms at just a few great companies.   The resume is way too easy to falsify. It is easy to say “I made a bad company profitable,” and totally a different t ..read more

Better interviewing in China would make the world of work here a better place, so let’s take a look. Interviewing utilizes the principle: Past experience is the best predictor of future outcome If a candidate has always been hands on in his or her work, then he will likely be so in his work with you. If a candidate merely says that is the best way, that accounts for nothing. Anyone can talk a good theory, but few can live it out. Thus, you may hear about experiential interviewing.  SHI Group diligently implements this. So a first goal is to learn what the candidate says he or she did ..read more

Bias and recruiting is usually an unspoken problem. I want to take a look at it today. Sad news is everyone has some unhelpful bias whether we believe it or not. So, does recruiting have to have some permanent problem? I am biased toward people who use servant leadership. For some rare customers that is not helpful, and we have to seek the core data the customer wants. However, despite my good eye for talent, I sometimes choose a candidate, and later the background check shows I misread that person.   My unwritten bias likely blinded me a little. That gap could cost us a lot.  E ..read more

Chinese people do not raise their hands in school full stop. This is primary through college. American  and many Western schools are much more active. What does that say about hiring in China? In a US class of any age, you could expect some students to raise their hands at a query from an instructor. What does this stark difference say? Westerners are less afraid of their own skin.  Not all are, but enough that some people will raise their hands while in China none will. So people you hire in China are all the ones who never raised their hands in school.  Does that mean they are ..read more

Hiring is people focused is a no brainer I suppose, but lets take a look at this topic and see what we can do. You hire people and not resumes is the first step.  Resumes often get us going the wrong way actually. We may be thinking people, and then the resume shows up, and it is all about experience and maybe schooling.  Somehow, people loose their focus on needing the right person.  People start saying this person changed jobs too much. What they mean is that this person is not as good. Yet, they cannot step back and say, “I wonder what bad thing happened to this person.” Hiri ..read more

At SHI Group, we are saving you time and saving you money every time we work for you. We do the ground work at first so you do not have to waste your time with bad interviews.  How does SHI Group do that? I think we cover that part by caring to understand what the customer real wants and not planning to get lucky. Our 1 hour plus interview with each candidate where we dig dig dig also means we know them well enough to know if they are worth your time. 15 minutes would not get us there. We know you have a day job and lots to do, so we work in way that takes care of your time. We Save you T ..read more

China, the number two economy, has looked a little shaky, but it is definitely number two. Hiring has been easier as the labor market has been a little soft. Now is the time to hire to capture business or to do better in supply chain work. There is money to be made in China. We have been getting busy as the market has opened, and businesses see the value of the market in China. We have contact with some successful Amazon companies who find China to be the very best place to find products and get them to market. What are they seeing? China’s market and manufacturing ecosystem are unparalleled i ..read more

Guess finding the right people should not be a comedy Finding the right people is the goal of every hiring manager and person assisting him. The challenge is double when you want to do it cross culturally in China. Most early efforts can come up with mediocre resumes. At a higher level, recruiters can bring in the candidates who have mediocre resumes and are already faked the resumes to look better and lie their way through the interview. So now, companies feel better because they have candidates with resumes that now look good and interviewees who can talk like they are smart and capable. H ..read more

SHI Group is reaching higher in recruiting to make sure you get the right person the first time every time. Well, for a long time, I have been saying we are 95% successful in placing the right person the first time, but a long string of more first time successes means we are now at 96.0%. Yes, we are reaching higher, and it shows. Hiring does not have to be hope and guess work.  On boarding the first person you like is dicey and you know. Hiring from the first person you like who is also real and actually the right person is the way to do it. This sounds simple, and I guess it is, but it ..read more