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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