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When you are begining to prepare your resume for a potential China job, you have to think what message you want to deliver to Chinese employer through the resume.
1) Where you were educated?

Education makes a man. You have to describe your college/university education history as a point with some technique. If your school is not Harvard or Yale, you should tell its advantages compared with others. A well-organized introduction on your school will improve your image among the potential Chinese employers.

For example, you say the school is an emerging leader in fast food marketing education, and that you have been taught by a professor with great reputations in the fields. Tell some about that. Show your passion on it, althrough the potential Chinese employers know nothing about your school or your professor or his book or something else. (To be continued for this topic.)

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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.

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I am  thinking about providing some Chinese resume templates for downloading for China jobs seekers. 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.

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Let’s come to a tip about Chinese resume sample in looking for China jobs.

You may have doubt that how can you deal with a Chinese resume sample in the case you do not know Chinese language very much.

The answer is 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.

Anyway, if you think that is too complicated, you can consider professional Chinese resume service.

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If you are looking for China jobs, these tips may be helpful to you to build your own Chinese language resume.

Firstly, why not turn to your Chinese friends if you have some. 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 among candidates of a job. 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. (To be continued)

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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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