Exec search body ‘impressed’ by Chinese approach to talent issues
2 December 2013
The president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) tells recruiter.co.uk he was “encouraged” and “shocked” by the frankness with which Chinese officials addressed talent issues at a recent event hosted by the organisation.
Mon, 2 Dec 2013The president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) tells recruiter.co.uk he was “encouraged” and “shocked” by the frankness with which Chinese officials addressed talent issues at a recent event hosted by the organisation.
On 11 November the AESC, alongside the China Global Talents Society, hosted 100 global organisations and public officials to discuss senior executive talent issues in the country.
Wu Jiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, part of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, listed questions including education, housing, pollution, the environment and visas among factors the country needed to sort out to make it more attractive for foreign executives to move to China.
AESC president Peter Felix says that this “very frank exchange of views by both government and corporate executives was encouraging”, but also tells recruiter.co.uk he was “really shocked” at how open the Chinese were.
“Whether the [Chinese] government can do something about this long term remains to be seen, but they’re talking about it,” he adds.
Felix says he takes this to mean that the Chinese government broadly understands that to attract business-critical talent “you’ve got to be competitive at a country level”.
On 11 November the AESC, alongside the China Global Talents Society, hosted 100 global organisations and public officials to discuss senior executive talent issues in the country.
Wu Jiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science, part of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, listed questions including education, housing, pollution, the environment and visas among factors the country needed to sort out to make it more attractive for foreign executives to move to China.
AESC president Peter Felix says that this “very frank exchange of views by both government and corporate executives was encouraging”, but also tells recruiter.co.uk he was “really shocked” at how open the Chinese were.
“Whether the [Chinese] government can do something about this long term remains to be seen, but they’re talking about it,” he adds.
Felix says he takes this to mean that the Chinese government broadly understands that to attract business-critical talent “you’ve got to be competitive at a country level”.
