Survey shows differences in local companies’ recruitment policies
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FOREIGN firms and state-owned companies look for different qualities from their new recruits, a recent poll has claimed.
The discovery was made after an assessment of the responses to a questionnaire issued by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau to 211 businesses, all of which had recruited at least one graduate in the past five years.
Of the public sector companies polled, almost 70 percent said the performance of job-seekers in tests and interviews was “one of the most important factors.”
The proportion of all the companies polled that felt that way was just 36 percent.
Another finding was that 72 percent of the foreign firms quizzed “cared” about the academic achievements of would-be recruits, while 37 percent cared about foreign language proficiency.
Local companies, unsurprisingly, were far less concerned about candidates’ ability to speak a foreign language.
The survey also said that half of the government-owned companies cared about students’ salary expectations and whether or not they held a local residence permit. By extension, the other half did not.
“Most government organizations are looking for people to fill basic administration roles, so they are less concerned about specialist skills,” said Feng Lijuan, who works for recruitment website 51Job.com.
“They want people who are submissive and have a positive attitude,” she said.
Feng claimed also that private firms favor candidates whose education has some relevance to the industry they are seeking to join.
“Students whose majors are related to a particular business sector are preferred,” she said.
Meanwhile, Huang Shan, who works for the Shanghai office of British recruitment company Michael Page, said that foreign firms care less about people’s proficiency in a foreign language than they once did.
“While they might occasionally have to produce some reports in English, their working language is Mandarin,” she said.
One of the key findings of the bureau’s poll was that most job-seekers would like a higher salary than employers are prepared to offer.
In the case of university graduates, the discrepancy was 1,500 yuan (US$240), it revealed.
Finally, about 25 percent of the companies polled said that some of the graduates they had employed over the past five years left the company as a way to climb the career ladder and boost their salaries.
By extension, 75 percent of the employers said that this was not the case.
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