Hiring Engineers in China
Sunday, August 12th, 2007Has anybody else out there had issues with finding good people in China? My problem is not the vast swath of never ending bodies lining up for a job, or even the various diluted names for degrees these days, “Bachelor of Internet Marketing”, “Bachelor of E Business Sanitation” – a problem not limited to China. Whatever happened to the traditional courses and studies at Uni? Arts, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Law, Science, Medicine?
Anyway, I digress. My problem is one of “Resume Fluffing”. Now most people the world over are probably guilty of creative resume writing, however what I never understood is that while you may get away with that in less precise industries like Law, Policy, Marketing, Trade, Secretarial, Education, etc. When it comes to stuff like Engineering, Accounting/Banking and say the ability to fly a plane as examples. Surely one must understand that their resume fluffing rouses can only go on for so long? It is very boolean, it either works or it doesn’t and no fancy power point or speed talking can change that fact.
So while I used to do the normal, get a stack of resumes, filter, interview, test, 2nd interview, hire. I now go about hiring like this:
