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Q: Job interview with Chinese firm - anything to look out for?

Got a job interview with a Chinese firm comin up - HR people speak English, but are prob gonna be testing me on my Chinese as well. Just wondering if job interviews were the same as back home or if there was something in particular I should be mindful of. Do Chinese pay attention to anything else in particular?

12 years 33 weeks ago in  Business & Jobs - China

 
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From the various interviews I've done around here... Unless the HR department is really westernized don't worry yourself about any of the b.s. questions like "What's your greatest weakness" or anything like that. Most of the interview was actually them blowing smoke about the company and the job. I even had quite a few that asked if I could speak chinese, but didn't even try and test me.

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I would worry about getting the job... I've yet to have a positive experience working in any Chinese own, run or managed company.

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Yeah, run away REALLY fast. You DO NOT want to work for a Chinese company unless you truly enjoy being treated like a piece of crap, abused, and thought of as property.

Anyway they can weasel their way out of paying you they will find and do.

If you are really wanting to do this, which I cannot express what a seriously bad idea it is, then I would make sure you ask about a few things:

1. HR policies - they will use these to dock pay for the smallest and stupidest reasons. 5 minutes late? There's 1/2 a day pay gone. Didn't work overtime? Docked pay.Didn't inform them 3 days in advance that you're sick? Pay lost unless you have a doctors note and then it *might* be added to your next paycheck.

2. Where is the company registered? If it's a mainland China run business, not matter what is actually stated in your contract, it doesn't matter. Contracts are meaningless in China, they just seem to make them because other countries have them. They will use them to their advantage, but anything in them that you try to use will be met with "changes to the corporate policy".

There's a ton more things, but the best advice is to NOT TAKE THE JOB.

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In Chinese Company, the HR will be concerned about your Chinese communication skills, your working experience and stable you are for the company. Certainly they also concerned about your salary request since it related to their budget.

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Just be yourself, and tell them who you are and what you can do.

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I have had a few and they seem less formal in regards to questions, but still dress sharp. Smiling is perhaps more important too.

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Most companies focus on your ability to match the position you apply for, other than that, they are concerned about  your criminal background and personal habits or values or moral that may influence your taking  your role in the job implementing and on other employees.

So a clean background, a positive attitude, a cooperative approach towards work and team workers, a teamwork practice will be the key values they are looking for..

While in actual interview, most Chinese companies are easy with foreigners, they may just ask if you can speak some Chinese, or talk about your previous experiences you have for carrying on the prospective job, or your expectation of yourself and them from the job..

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