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4月的一个下午，成百上千的求职者挤在北京港澳中心，他们来自英国、奥地利、巴基斯坦或者美国。谈笑间，他们充满期待。他们的积极情绪与笼罩自己祖国的阴霾形成鲜明的对比，那里的经济正遭受着几十年来最严重的衰退。
破产、萧条、衰退等字眼成了各大媒体的头条。但在北京，不是萧条，而是欣欣向荣。
“这是中国国际人才网第七次组织外籍人才招聘会，以前还没有来过这么多的求职者，”招聘会的组织者Michael Li说，这次招聘会吸引了1100多位求职者，几乎是去年的两倍。
“相比其他地方，中国尤其是北京受危机的影响比较小，” Michael Li的同事Christina Yang解释道。
招聘会上的职位数量和职位质量都在攀升，“与前几年相比，这次提供的职位要求更好的资质，也提供更高的薪水。”她说。
语言教师仍然排在职位需求榜的首位：56家招聘方中有37家招聘外国语言类专家。25岁的Argentine Laura Leiro就是这样一位，她来北京学习汉语，希望教授西班牙语来资助中文学习，“我计划做一年或两年，然后可以发挥多语言的优势。”在招聘会现场，她辗转各个展位，手中拿着一沓简历。
31岁的Fred Khan来自巴基斯坦，是一位英语老师，他认为利用招聘会可以估计自己的市场价值，还可以看看潜在的机会。
他说，他和妻子在北京生活了3年，感觉如家一般。
“北京比其他国际性大都市要安宁得多，而且中国充满了机会。”
随着中国经济的发展，尽管速度比最近几年慢一些，外籍人士的流入也将随着增加，尤其是如果外国人能对这个发展中的经济体有所作用。中国正在成为技能型外籍人才的天堂。
Peter Strijdonk正是其中之一。和很多求职者一样，他的情绪很高。这位荷兰人6个月前才刚刚来到中国，他对自己的新生活充满热情。“在欧洲，很多人对自己的未来没有安全感，但在这里，你到处都能感觉到积极的氛围”。他说，“我永远没有胆量在欧洲开创自己的事业。”Peter Strijdonk参加招聘会希望扩展人脉，也想了解真正的外籍人才招聘会。
他说，“当你看中国时，这里充满了对未来美好的期待。这里有活力，有开创事业的空间，如果你想达到一定的目标，你就可以实现。”
对于一些新到中国的外国人，一份教师的工作是最普遍的起点，但其他机会也在增加，来自爱集斯国际运输服务（AGS Four Winds）的Flora Sheng说。
爱集斯北京办公室每月做50单运输服务。
目前，其中只有1/3的运输服务是流向客户的，但Flora Sheng认为危机带来的大批外籍人士流出的高峰已经过去。
“经济危机使很多跨国公司把自己的海外职员及其家属送回国。”
“但现在这种趋势正在转向，回流趋势非常明显，尤其是从法国和南非。”
Bernd Reitmeier认为在华德国社区也出现了这样的趋势。德国商务代表团的副代表在上海说在华德国人并没有像韩国人或美国人一样大规模流出。
“在上海的韩国人数在5个月内从10万减少到5万，但德国人的回国率估计仅仅3%-5%。” Reitmeier说。
大约有8500名德国人生活在上海，是Reitmeier10年前来中国的8倍。“还会有大批的德国人来到中国。”他预测。因为在华德国公司更加关注国内市场，而不是出口，所以比在华美国公司更具有对危机的免疫性。中国的国内市场表现还不错。
Reitmeier认为从长期看中国将成为危机的赢家。
对于Clemens Helbock，ixpat.com的创办者和CEO来说，中国已经是赢家了。
他说，“很多外国人意识到自己国家的工作前景仍然暗淡，但此时中国的经济仍在增长。”
“经济增加带来了就业。” ixpat.com网站今年3月份提供的职位比去年同期增长了30%。
在经济危机的背景下，Helbock预测这样一种流入者的数量会明显增加。
“这种流入者年轻，有事业心，也乐意签约本地企业，以期丰富经历和长期定居本地。”
本土化是主流趋势，不仅对外国公司外籍员工的薪水如此，对公司的目标市场也如此。
美国商会的最新经济气候调查显示，超过60%的美国公司认为中国市场是他们在中国运营的主要原因，而2008年这一数据为51%。
超过80%的美国公司对未来5年的中国业务表示乐观。实际上，这些公司并不认为经济下滑是他们面临的主要挑战。知识产权保护、寻找并培训有资质的人才是更主要的问题。“吸引有资质的人才”是在华跨国公司的主要挑战。中国仍然需要大批人才，中国历史最悠久的钢铁公司首钢也在招聘会现场参展，它急需外籍专家。首钢提供了19个工程师和2个财务专家的职位，“但并没有足够的应聘者满足我们的职位需求，”首钢人力资源主管Hu Yuping说。排名世界14的轮胎生产商“三角”拥有几个展位，也面临相同的问题。
“想找到一些领域的外国专家很难，比如轮胎工程、机械工程或国际贸易，”“三角”的翻译Richard Hu说。 （转载自4月27日版China Daily）
They're from the United Kingdom, Austria, Pakistan or the United States. Hundreds of job hunters gather at the Swissotel in Beijing on an April afternoon. They're smiling, chatting and full of expectation. Their positive mood stands in striking contrast to the gloom overshadowing their home countries, where the economy is facing the most severe downturn in decades.Catchwords such as "bankruptcy", "depression" and "recession" are dominating the headlines there. But in Beijing it's not a belly-up, it's a thumbs up.
"It's the seventh time that the Chinajob.com job fair has taken place, and never before there were so many visitors," says Michael Li, organizer of the event, which attracted more than 1,100 job hunters, more than double than last year.
"China and especially Beijing are less affected by the crisis than almost anywhere else," explains Li's colleague Christina Yang.There is still an increase in the job market - and not only in terms of quantity of positions, but also the quality. "Compared to previous years, the jobs offered demand higher qualification and imply a higher salary," she says.
Language teaching positions are still the top dog: 37 out of 56 exhibitors at the job fair were looking for foreign language experts, like Argentine Laura Leiro, who strolls through the fair booths with a pack of CVs in her hand.The 25 year old came to Beijing to studying Chinese and wants to finance it by teaching Spanish."I plan to do that for a year or two and then make the most out of my multilingualism," she says.
Fred Khan, 31, from Pakistan already works as an English teacher. He regards the job fair as a chance to test his market value and "to see about the possibilities".After three years in Beijing, both he and his wife feel at home, he says."Beijing is incredible peaceful compared to other international cities - and China is just an ocean of opportunities," he says.
As China's economy continues to grow, even though much lower than recent years, the influx of expat grows with it, especially if the foreigner has something to bring to the developing economy. China has become a paradise for skilled foreigners.
One of them is Peter Strijdonk. Like many visitors at the job fair, his mood is running high. The Dutchman moved to China just six months ago, and he is very enthusiastic about his new life.
"While a lot of people in Europe are very insecure about their future now, here you can feel a positive vibe everywhere," he says.
When Strijdonk came to China, he founded a consultant firm named Small Steps Coaching - and the move became a great big step for himself.He would never have dared to start his own business in Europe, he says.
Strijdonk visits the Chinajobs.com job fair for networking purposes and also to look at the very foreigner friendly job market, he says."When you look at China, there are great future prospects almost everywhere," says Strijdonk."There's energy, and there's room for initiative. If you want to reach a certain business goal, then you can do it."
For newly arrived foreigners, diving into a teaching job is the most popular starting point, but other opportunities arise, explains Flora Sheng from international removal company AGS Four Winds.The Beijing branch of her company organizes about 50 removals per month.
At the moment only one third of them are moving in clients, but Sheng is convinced the peak of the crisis-driven expat exodus has already passed."At the dawn of the crisis many big international corporations sent their overseas employees and their families back home," Sheng says.Now the tide is about to turn again. "Inbound removals regain territory, especially from France and South Africa," she says.
Bernd Reitmeier is seeing the same trend occurring in the German expatriates community. The deputy delegate of the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Shanghai says German expats have not left China in such massive numbers compared to Koreans or Americans.
"While for example the Korean community in Shanghai shrank from 100,000 to 50,000 within only five months, the returnee ratio of Germans is estimated to be only 3 to 5 percent," Reitmeier says.About 8,500 Germans live in Shanghai today - eight times more than when Reitmeier arrived 10 years ago."The Germans will be coming to China in great numbers," Reitmeier predicts.
German companies in China are more immune to the crisis than their American counterparts, as their focus is less on export and more on the local market.And the Chinese market is still doing comparatively well.Reitmeier believes China "in the long run will be the winner from this economic crisis".
For Clemens Helbock, founder and CEO of the expat job site ixpat.com, China is already the winner."Many foreigners realize that job perspectives in their home economies are far from bright while at the same time there is still growth in China," he says."And growth attracts workforce." On ixpat.com there were 30 percent more job offerings in March 2009 compared to the same period in the previous year.In view of the global economic crisis, Helbock expects a swelling influx of what he calls "inpats"."These are foreigners who are young, ambitious and willing to work on a local contract in exchange for experience and the perspective of long-term settlement," he says.
Localization is a major trend - and this is true not only for the foreign companies' expat salaries, but also for their target market.According to the new Business Climate Survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce more than 60 percent of the American companies said pursuing the Chinese market is their main reason for operating in China - compared to a mere 51 percent in 2008.
More than 80 percent of the American companies said they feel optimistic about their five-year business outlook in China.In fact, these organizations do not consider the economic slowdown as the dominating challenge.Bigger threats are the protection of intellectual property rights - and the problem of finding and retaining qualified talent.A study conducted by the consulting firm Watson Wyatt arrives at the same conclusion."Attraction of qualified talent" is the greatest business challenge for multinational companies in China.
China is still in need of a brain gain. One of the companies at the job fair in great need of expat experts is China's oldest steel company Shougang.It offers 19 engineering and two financial expert positions at the fair, "but there are just not enough suitable applicants for those positions," Shougang HR manager Hu Yuping says.
The world's number 14 tire producer Triangle, a few booths on, is facing the same problem."It's quite hard to find foreign experts in fields like tire engineering, mechanical engineering or international trade," Triangle interpreter Richard Hu explains.(China Daily 04/27/2009 page10)
破产、萧条、衰退等字眼成了各大媒体的头条。但在北京，不是萧条，而是欣欣向荣。
“这是中国国际人才网第七次组织外籍人才招聘会，以前还没有来过这么多的求职者，”招聘会的组织者Michael Li说，这次招聘会吸引了1100多位求职者，几乎是去年的两倍。
“相比其他地方，中国尤其是北京受危机的影响比较小，” Michael Li的同事Christina Yang解释道。
招聘会上的职位数量和职位质量都在攀升，“与前几年相比，这次提供的职位要求更好的资质，也提供更高的薪水。”她说。
语言教师仍然排在职位需求榜的首位：56家招聘方中有37家招聘外国语言类专家。25岁的Argentine Laura Leiro就是这样一位，她来北京学习汉语，希望教授西班牙语来资助中文学习，“我计划做一年或两年，然后可以发挥多语言的优势。”在招聘会现场，她辗转各个展位，手中拿着一沓简历。
31岁的Fred Khan来自巴基斯坦，是一位英语老师，他认为利用招聘会可以估计自己的市场价值，还可以看看潜在的机会。
他说，他和妻子在北京生活了3年，感觉如家一般。
“北京比其他国际性大都市要安宁得多，而且中国充满了机会。”
随着中国经济的发展，尽管速度比最近几年慢一些，外籍人士的流入也将随着增加，尤其是如果外国人能对这个发展中的经济体有所作用。中国正在成为技能型外籍人才的天堂。
Peter Strijdonk正是其中之一。和很多求职者一样，他的情绪很高。这位荷兰人6个月前才刚刚来到中国，他对自己的新生活充满热情。“在欧洲，很多人对自己的未来没有安全感，但在这里，你到处都能感觉到积极的氛围”。他说，“我永远没有胆量在欧洲开创自己的事业。”Peter Strijdonk参加招聘会希望扩展人脉，也想了解真正的外籍人才招聘会。
他说，“当你看中国时，这里充满了对未来美好的期待。这里有活力，有开创事业的空间，如果你想达到一定的目标，你就可以实现。”
对于一些新到中国的外国人，一份教师的工作是最普遍的起点，但其他机会也在增加，来自爱集斯国际运输服务（AGS Four Winds）的Flora Sheng说。
爱集斯北京办公室每月做50单运输服务。
目前，其中只有1/3的运输服务是流向客户的，但Flora Sheng认为危机带来的大批外籍人士流出的高峰已经过去。
“经济危机使很多跨国公司把自己的海外职员及其家属送回国。”
“但现在这种趋势正在转向，回流趋势非常明显，尤其是从法国和南非。”
Bernd Reitmeier认为在华德国社区也出现了这样的趋势。德国商务代表团的副代表在上海说在华德国人并没有像韩国人或美国人一样大规模流出。
“在上海的韩国人数在5个月内从10万减少到5万，但德国人的回国率估计仅仅3%-5%。” Reitmeier说。
大约有8500名德国人生活在上海，是Reitmeier10年前来中国的8倍。“还会有大批的德国人来到中国。”他预测。因为在华德国公司更加关注国内市场，而不是出口，所以比在华美国公司更具有对危机的免疫性。中国的国内市场表现还不错。
Reitmeier认为从长期看中国将成为危机的赢家。
对于Clemens Helbock，ixpat.com的创办者和CEO来说，中国已经是赢家了。
他说，“很多外国人意识到自己国家的工作前景仍然暗淡，但此时中国的经济仍在增长。”
“经济增加带来了就业。” ixpat.com网站今年3月份提供的职位比去年同期增长了30%。
在经济危机的背景下，Helbock预测这样一种流入者的数量会明显增加。
“这种流入者年轻，有事业心，也乐意签约本地企业，以期丰富经历和长期定居本地。”
本土化是主流趋势，不仅对外国公司外籍员工的薪水如此，对公司的目标市场也如此。
美国商会的最新经济气候调查显示，超过60%的美国公司认为中国市场是他们在中国运营的主要原因，而2008年这一数据为51%。
超过80%的美国公司对未来5年的中国业务表示乐观。实际上，这些公司并不认为经济下滑是他们面临的主要挑战。知识产权保护、寻找并培训有资质的人才是更主要的问题。“吸引有资质的人才”是在华跨国公司的主要挑战。中国仍然需要大批人才，中国历史最悠久的钢铁公司首钢也在招聘会现场参展，它急需外籍专家。首钢提供了19个工程师和2个财务专家的职位，“但并没有足够的应聘者满足我们的职位需求，”首钢人力资源主管Hu Yuping说。排名世界14的轮胎生产商“三角”拥有几个展位，也面临相同的问题。
“想找到一些领域的外国专家很难，比如轮胎工程、机械工程或国际贸易，”“三角”的翻译Richard Hu说。 （转载自4月27日版China Daily）
They're from the United Kingdom, Austria, Pakistan or the United States. Hundreds of job hunters gather at the Swissotel in Beijing on an April afternoon. They're smiling, chatting and full of expectation. Their positive mood stands in striking contrast to the gloom overshadowing their home countries, where the economy is facing the most severe downturn in decades.Catchwords such as "bankruptcy", "depression" and "recession" are dominating the headlines there. But in Beijing it's not a belly-up, it's a thumbs up.
"It's the seventh time that the Chinajob.com job fair has taken place, and never before there were so many visitors," says Michael Li, organizer of the event, which attracted more than 1,100 job hunters, more than double than last year.
"China and especially Beijing are less affected by the crisis than almost anywhere else," explains Li's colleague Christina Yang.There is still an increase in the job market - and not only in terms of quantity of positions, but also the quality. "Compared to previous years, the jobs offered demand higher qualification and imply a higher salary," she says.
Language teaching positions are still the top dog: 37 out of 56 exhibitors at the job fair were looking for foreign language experts, like Argentine Laura Leiro, who strolls through the fair booths with a pack of CVs in her hand.The 25 year old came to Beijing to studying Chinese and wants to finance it by teaching Spanish."I plan to do that for a year or two and then make the most out of my multilingualism," she says.
Fred Khan, 31, from Pakistan already works as an English teacher. He regards the job fair as a chance to test his market value and "to see about the possibilities".After three years in Beijing, both he and his wife feel at home, he says."Beijing is incredible peaceful compared to other international cities - and China is just an ocean of opportunities," he says.
As China's economy continues to grow, even though much lower than recent years, the influx of expat grows with it, especially if the foreigner has something to bring to the developing economy. China has become a paradise for skilled foreigners.
One of them is Peter Strijdonk. Like many visitors at the job fair, his mood is running high. The Dutchman moved to China just six months ago, and he is very enthusiastic about his new life.
"While a lot of people in Europe are very insecure about their future now, here you can feel a positive vibe everywhere," he says.
When Strijdonk came to China, he founded a consultant firm named Small Steps Coaching - and the move became a great big step for himself.He would never have dared to start his own business in Europe, he says.
Strijdonk visits the Chinajobs.com job fair for networking purposes and also to look at the very foreigner friendly job market, he says."When you look at China, there are great future prospects almost everywhere," says Strijdonk."There's energy, and there's room for initiative. If you want to reach a certain business goal, then you can do it."
For newly arrived foreigners, diving into a teaching job is the most popular starting point, but other opportunities arise, explains Flora Sheng from international removal company AGS Four Winds.The Beijing branch of her company organizes about 50 removals per month.
At the moment only one third of them are moving in clients, but Sheng is convinced the peak of the crisis-driven expat exodus has already passed."At the dawn of the crisis many big international corporations sent their overseas employees and their families back home," Sheng says.Now the tide is about to turn again. "Inbound removals regain territory, especially from France and South Africa," she says.
Bernd Reitmeier is seeing the same trend occurring in the German expatriates community. The deputy delegate of the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Shanghai says German expats have not left China in such massive numbers compared to Koreans or Americans.
"While for example the Korean community in Shanghai shrank from 100,000 to 50,000 within only five months, the returnee ratio of Germans is estimated to be only 3 to 5 percent," Reitmeier says.About 8,500 Germans live in Shanghai today - eight times more than when Reitmeier arrived 10 years ago."The Germans will be coming to China in great numbers," Reitmeier predicts.
German companies in China are more immune to the crisis than their American counterparts, as their focus is less on export and more on the local market.And the Chinese market is still doing comparatively well.Reitmeier believes China "in the long run will be the winner from this economic crisis".
For Clemens Helbock, founder and CEO of the expat job site ixpat.com, China is already the winner."Many foreigners realize that job perspectives in their home economies are far from bright while at the same time there is still growth in China," he says."And growth attracts workforce." On ixpat.com there were 30 percent more job offerings in March 2009 compared to the same period in the previous year.In view of the global economic crisis, Helbock expects a swelling influx of what he calls "inpats"."These are foreigners who are young, ambitious and willing to work on a local contract in exchange for experience and the perspective of long-term settlement," he says.
Localization is a major trend - and this is true not only for the foreign companies' expat salaries, but also for their target market.According to the new Business Climate Survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce more than 60 percent of the American companies said pursuing the Chinese market is their main reason for operating in China - compared to a mere 51 percent in 2008.
More than 80 percent of the American companies said they feel optimistic about their five-year business outlook in China.In fact, these organizations do not consider the economic slowdown as the dominating challenge.Bigger threats are the protection of intellectual property rights - and the problem of finding and retaining qualified talent.A study conducted by the consulting firm Watson Wyatt arrives at the same conclusion."Attraction of qualified talent" is the greatest business challenge for multinational companies in China.
China is still in need of a brain gain. One of the companies at the job fair in great need of expat experts is China's oldest steel company Shougang.It offers 19 engineering and two financial expert positions at the fair, "but there are just not enough suitable applicants for those positions," Shougang HR manager Hu Yuping says.
The world's number 14 tire producer Triangle, a few booths on, is facing the same problem."It's quite hard to find foreign experts in fields like tire engineering, mechanical engineering or international trade," Triangle interpreter Richard Hu explains.(China Daily 04/27/2009 page10)