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I just made a post about Chinese resume templates at Cabi.net.cn’s JobTalk, an online forum for China job seekers. You can download the templates directly.

I am  thinking about providing some Chinese resume templates for downloading. And that may help many friends to write their own Chinese resume by themselves.

I may firstly write some Chinese resume templates for teaching and editing positions. And any more? You can give me your suggestions.

China’s advertising and media industries needs quite a lot of the expats in the country to do the dubbing jobs. The simple reason is, for example, a Chinese slogan with its counterpart in English, may make a brand more international. Right?

China Job List updated its job position information, including bubbing jobs offerred by Jinnuo Jiayin, a Beijing-based dubbing service provider. The company needs the expats in China with nice voice. The jobs are available part time or full time.

You can visit www.SinoSites.com to check more job sites, if you are look for a China job.

If you would like to be a teacher, you can visit esljobs.cn, which updates a lot of teaching positions each day.

esljobs.cn features a powerful job search engine with detail information on locations and teaching positions. In the search tool, its location options include all of China’s provinces, and teaching positions cover different education organizations ranging from kingdergarten, elementary school, to university.

Sinosites.com, a community to discover and share the China-centered sites useful to the expats in the country, has updated its sites for China jobs.

This time, www.meijob.com and http://china.recruit.net, two China job search engines are listed on SinoSites.com. And their English versions are available. That is a good news for the expats in China.

The China top job sites has a large database and you have to choose the right keywords to search jobs. For example, you can use the keywords like native, expat/expats/expatriate, English, and so on. These keywords will help you locate   Chinese employers that use them in their job posts for looking for expatriate employees.

You can try the tip now.

Just go to www.sinosites.com/simple.html, you will see a list of China’s top job sites in English. 

ChinaHR, 51job, and Zhaopin are the biggest ones in China. They update hundreds of thousands of jobs, and a certain proportion of them are for the expats in the country, —so many Chinese local companies need expat employees.

Next blog posts, I will tell about some tips for searching jobs on the top 3 job sites. The tips are so important that you can not find good search results with no knowing them. But you can try to search on the job sites, and do not be disappointed if few good search results come out.

I am collecting the information on China’s top job sites in English, which I think help the expats in the country look for more job oppertunities.

The list of these sites will be available here soon, and I will also post them on www.sinosites.com, which is a funny digg-styled site collectiong a lot of useful China-centered websites in English.

Please just be patient for that.

Following the blog post, I sitll have some thoughts about the topic of start a business in China.

All the world is looking for cheap and high quality products made in China. And you are in China, right? You may know about China much more than those that in the rest of the world, right? Does this create any business opportunities? Maybe yes. You can check the B2B sites to find product providers in China:

a) www.globalsources.com

b) www.alibaba.com

c) more is available at www.sinosites.com

You also can introduce a product, a service, or something else, which only your country has, to China. That should be special to Chinese with a great market prospect. Just imagine, China has the biggest population on the world. If only 10 million like what you introduce to them, what will be the result?

It’s ok to look for a job, and just check the updated China Job List.

You want a job in China, and you need a Chinese name. It does not sound like a gold rule, but it works better than a rule. In your resume, an expat’s Chinese name, maybe, interests a HR manager, — human being has a great curiosity. HR manager is no exception

There are two styles of Chinese-name-making. Firstly, make a very Chinese-like name, which consists of suname and forename. In Chinese, there are over one hundred sunames (called Bai Jia Xing in Pinyin). Just choose one for yourself based on your interest and the pronunciation of your English suname. And then make a forename. You have to be very creative, since Chinese making is an art. Make it easy remembered, having a good connotation and pronunciation in Chinese.

Secondly, just use the translated Chinese name from your English one. I know many do not like translation of name, for it make no sense. One point, however, should be put on the advantage of translated name: It makes HR manager know quickly you are an expat  rather than a Chinese candidate.  You translated Chinese name will attract their eyeballs.

About.com has some stuff about Chinese name, and it may help you.

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Firstly, think about your advantages compared with local Chinese. Obviously, language ability. For example, you are an English native speaker, and you can be an English teacher, editor, proofreader, translator, reporter, etc.. But can the advantages in language ability make a millionare in China? Very hard. At least, it is no problem that only a good English ability get you to make a living. Just image that Chinese want to learn English, which create a big market. I had never heard of an expat that becomes a millionare through teaching English while I heard of too many of Chinese story in which they teach English and make a forture. Why? Chinese, with English not being their native language, can teach English better than the English native speaker? Absolutely not. Let’s turn to the potential ability rather than language as following.

Secondly, why not try to do business if you are in China. I am not persuading you to competite with local Chinese. I am telling you to think about the markets between China and your motherland. You know something about your motherland’s market, but you are in China, and begin to know about the local market. Did you find any oppertunity here. You may build up your strong competitiveness here, too.   

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A new Chinese labor law will take effect in 2008, which rules that a employee working for over 10 years in a company will not be fired by the company. This new law will make it harder to fire an old employee in China. Employees may applause for that.

But many enterprises, including local and multinational ones, begin to take actions now. They cut their employees with 10 years’ contribution in them. They fear that in 2008 and later, it will be difficult to fire these employees for a high legal and money cost.

Huawei, a top telecom equipment maker, joins the job cutting tide. It forces “old” employees to renew their contracts in 2007, and Huawei wants to make them “new” legally in this way.

But the expats in China should not be worry about that, for few will work for one company for over 10 years in the country. Am I right?

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Do not put your eyeballs only on online job messages (no matter how good it is like China Job List) if you are in China. You should see there are many recruting meetings in China each day.

Take both your English and Chinese resumes in dozens of copies, and join a recruting meeting in your local city. Thousands of local Chinese employers will join the meetings to look for potential employees. In China, the most populous country on the world, the biggest problem annoying HR managers is they can not find right people. And they also hope to attract talents through physical recruting meetings besides online postings.

There you can chat with Chinese HR managers face-to-face, which will get you to have more opportunities to win a good job.

But you have to know:

1 There may be hundreds of thousands of people on any recruting meetings. You can imagine the situation there, and get ready for that.

 2 Try to speak Chinese with Chinese HR managers although some of them can speak good English.

3 Do not forget you Chinese resume with you before you go.

In Beijing, there will be a recruting meeting in China International Exhibition Center at 9:00-16:00 in Jan.19-20, 2008. Just go there for a try!

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Learn to use a Chinese resume sample.

You may have doubt that  how can you deal with a Chinese resume sample in the case you do not know Chinese very much. Google may help. Firstly, go to the Google China site, www.google.cn (pay attention here, the domain is ended with .cn rather than .com). Secondly, if you can input the Chinese characters of resume in the search keyword field, that is great. But do not worry if you can not do that. Remember something like Pinyin here: Jianli (resume in English), Moban (sample). Just input “Jianli Moban”, and you will get a lot of Chinese resume samples in the search results.

Do not rush to copy the contents on a sample. Try to research more before you begin. Do it until you have read ten or more samples. That research work makes you have a deeper insight into Chinese resume and, maybe, know something about how to please Chinese employers.
How many samples have read now?

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Firstly, turn to your Chinese friends. Most of Chinese people are very warm-hearted and happy to help a foreigner for nothing. I guess you agree with me about that. If you do not want to disturb them, think about “resume writing exchange”. You do English resume for your Chinese friends, and get them to do Chinese resume for you as an exchange. That way is more acceptable. You know, a good English resume, which has your contribution, will make the Chinese friends different from other competitors. So does a good Chinese resume to you.

When you have a resume partner, you had better told him to transform your English resume into the Chinese one rather than translate word by word. “Transform” here means the Chinese resume should be done with the consideration on Chinese culture, resume writing basics, employers’ psychology, and more. If possible, ask your partner to write a cover letter introducing your merits simply in the Chinese way.

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(To Be Continued)

The answer is YES.

Most of the employers in China, local and international, require job seekers to submit resume both in Chinese and English. That is seen as a basic rule. Especially when they want to hire an expatriate in the country, they hope job candidates have a written-well Chinese language resume with their English one submitted together.

A Chinese language resume is also an excellent tool to prove your Chinese language skills if you have been good at it. It is very important when a job requires some level Chinese ability. You can use a well-organized Chinese resume to make yourself distinguished from other potential job candidates with no Chinese resume. In September 2007, Cabi.net.cn interviewed human resources managers of over 100 enterprises with expatriate employees in Beijing, 85.6% of them expressed that they have more interest in the job applicants with Chinese language resume than those without it.

A rapidly increasing number of small and medium sized enterprises grow up in China in recent years. Their demands for the expatriate employees are dominantly big. But it is not always safe to count on their HR persons, if they are not as good at English as expected, to read through your English resume, and then to figure out your merits and demerits for a report to managers. In this case, ok, it is a Chinese language resume to work! Why? Save HR guys’ time and make up the possible negative results derived from their deficiency in English in a roundabout way. Can we do more for that except explaining their English abilities? It is not their mother language, anyway.

Next blog post will address the question how to do a Chinese resume at http://blog.cabi.net.cn in an easy way.

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