Companies such as China and other Asian countries are surging overseas, with overseas experience becoming an advantage.
Reference News Network reported in March 5th, British media said that in the past, the outside staff were usually married middle-aged men from the West. But today, the number of expatriates from Asia has been comparable to that of Westerners, or even more, which is in sharp contrast to the past.
Asian countries such as China and other Asian countries have increased significantly
according to the Broadcasting British Corporation (BBC) website in March 3rd, 38 year old chemical engineer van norfurry Lazzari always dreamed of working overseas. After graduating from American University in 2001, he went to a company in Malaysia and moved back to the United States in 2006 to serve as an oil service company, Schlumberger. Although the company did not provide full expatriate treatment, he got a good salary and enjoyed housing and transportation subsidies.
now, he returned to Malaysia. "I wanted to live in America forever." "I want to work overseas and accumulate as much experience as possible," he recalled, chewing McDonald's chips.
10 has worked with expatriates from all over the world. "Your boss may be a Korean, the Engineer may come from China, the interns come from the United States, and some Arabia locals, which is a good fusion."
the demographic composition of typical expatriates has changed. In the 2016 management liquidity survey, ECA, a global local service company, pointed out that "Asia has become an equally important source of foreign staff in Western Europe or North America."
reports that this trend is closely linked to the global expansion of Asian enterprises, the starting point of the overseas expansion of Japanese enterprises in the 80s of the last century, and further strengthened with China's accession after the financial crisis in 2008.
"Asian companies are more likely to send employees overseas than Western companies," said Guan Li, head of the ECA Asia Pacific region. "Western companies may only be stationed in a small number of managers and then recruit employees locally. Asian companies tend to send more people, even junior employees, and China is a clear example, as is Japan and Korea. Their expatriate staff include senior managers and even junior managers and professionals, partly because of communication, but trust is also important.
reports that many Asian companies from China, South Korea, Japan and India have set up the "firm local talent program" called by the global recruitment company ChapmanCG. In other words, they hope to recruit talents from the motherland and conduct certain training, and then pick the best people to go abroad for senior positions.
in Korea, overseas work experience is regarded as a prerequisite for the promotion of top positions in large companies. In China, the government has also called for the largest enterprises to expand overseas through the "go out strategy" - which has led to a series of mergers and acquisitions, and many Chinese companies open offices around the world, most of which are sent by China's headquarters.
with the increasing demand for talents in Asia around the world, Asians themselves are more willing to go abroad to expand their careers than ever before.
Hays Asia, a global recruitment company, recently launched a questionnaire on 5 Asian countries. It found that Singapore has the most globalized mobile workforce and 97% people plan to work overseas. Of these, 85% of them want to find better jobs, career development and exposure abroad. The rate of light. In mainland China, 96% of respondents are ready to work overseas, 94% in Hongkong and 93% in Malaysia.
the overseas experience has become a job advantage
"professionals who want to work abroad realize that employers are paying more and more attention to local talents with international experience and international thinking." Christine Wright said, "when they return home, they can combine the global thinking mode and the operation experience of overseas enterprises with local cultural knowledge." Matthew Chapman, chairman of
ChapmanCG, also believes that people with overseas work experience are "very demanding", especially in Asia, which is growing faster than the European and American countries.
"people now pay more attention to the way of doing things in Asia than before, and also to the global leaders who have been in Asia." Chapman said, "such people will be promoted, and many enterprises are eager to absorb strategies and ideas from this region."
his colleague, F Nelisiwe Chen, agrees, and since she returned to Singapore two and a half years ago, she has found that more and more Asian companies are thinking of cultivating their own talents rather than hiring outside. "Not only because Asians are more aware of Asia, and the diversification of enterprises is also important," said Frey West. "When assessing our leadership, companies are increasingly finding that they need to form a diversified leadership team in Asia."
more and more enterprises are starting to pay attention to the cost related to outside positions when the enterprises are increasingly concerned about the change in the composition of expatriate
. In many cases, fares are downgraded from business class to economy class, the proportion of apartments in housing subsidies is rising, the proportion of villas is falling, and the children may not be able to enjoy the tuition reimbursement. In the survey,
ECA found that Asian expatriates had less time to perform their duties, and about 1/10 did not have accompanying family members.
"many companies are concerned about the cost of expatriate salaries." Chapman said, "if there is a gap that local people cannot fill, they will be very useful. But the cost of talent and local talent in Asia has risen sharply. There must be good reasons to hire traditional expatriates and provide housing, airline tickets and car benefits. "
the Van Norafori Lazzari family in Dubai eventually wants to return to Malaysia, but no matter where they go, money and welfare will reduce the proportion of their decisions when making decisions, and they will pay more attention to their families.