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

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I am continuing to introduce useful China jobs sites here.

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.

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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.

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Following the previous post on China job sites, this one is sitll about the same topic.

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.

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I am collecting the information on China 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.

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Following the blog post on China jobs, I have some thoughts about the topic of starting a business in China, - self-employed.
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?

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Do not put your eyeballs only on online job messages (no matter how good it is like China Jobs 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.

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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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Here are some idea about career building in China.

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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