Mitt Romney will fight for every American job. This recent advertisement referring to Chryslers plans to shift jobs to China kicked off one of the many slanging matches between US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Throughout the election campaign both candidates talked about creating more jobs, the most discussed topic in the election campaign, by reviving the manufacturing industry. Now that the US election is over and Obama is firmly back in the Oval Office, many would dismiss the Obama-Romney debates over jobs and China as......[查看详情]

The rapid growth of Chinese social networking sites, in addition to inadequate recruitment platforms has led to more companies turning to social media as a hiring strategy. Traditional recruitment processes, as they are understood in the West, only really started to be used in China after 1978, with the gradual liberalising of Chinas economy, said Mike Tims, the president of Asia, Middle East and Africa for global HR consultancy SHL Group, in a report by the Wall Street Journal. This has made it easier for China to leapfrog these traditional app......[查看详情]

SHANGHAI - HSBC Holdings PLC said on Tuesday that it will continue to hire and invest in China, despite plans to cut tens of thousands of employee worldwide. Europes biggest bank said on Monday it will eliminate 30,000 jobs by the end of 2013, or about 10 percent of staff, to rein in salary costs, while hiring more people in emerging markets. Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Peter Wong told reporters in Shanghai that there would not be lay-offs in China, which the bank sees as one of its high-growth markets. Chinas a strategically important ......[查看详情]

It looks as if confidence has finally returned to the M.B.A. jobs market, according to the latest survey of employment trends for professionals and managers around the world. The July edition of the Global Snapshot from the international recruitment specialist, Antal, for example, questioned nearly 13,000 companies on six continents and found 52% currently hiring, up from 50% in February. And in many of the top emerging markets confidence is even higher. In Brazil, for example, 70% of employers are planning to recruit at professional or manageri......[查看详情]

Yes, weve all heard HSBCs dramatic announcement that it will slash 30,000 jobs globally, mostly in the back office. But some light has now been shed on what this means for Asia Pacific. The Straits Times reports that the firm will not axe staff in Singapore and will instead hire up to 1,000 people in trade, wealth management and financial markets over the next five years. Its a similarly reassuring tune in China and India where the focus is on recruitment, not retrenchment. Likewise, The Sydney Morning Herald reports today that Australia is expe......[查看详情]

FILE IT UNDER WHY? PERHAPS, but the Chinese networking firm Huawei has decided to hire an ex-UK government security executive for a very senior security role. Huawei is likely as secure as any Chinese technology firm, but the UK government is to data security what colanders are for transporting water, which makes its hiring of John Suffolk as global cyber security officer pretty confusing. Suffolk was at a UK government post where he worked as its CIO for five years. What work he did there we cant say, but we can say that during and around the p......[查看详情]