Comments on: Interview with Doron Vermaat of NewChinaCareer

By: yamour

yamour — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:01:38 +0000

there more than 180.000 expats working in China. Most of them not able to read Chinese. I think its a good idea to focus on this nice instead of competing with big guys like 51jobs or zhaopin.

By: Will Zhao

Will Zhao — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:51:51 +0000

I think trying to attack the market of all Chinese speaking candidates is basically impossible at this point. Cutting down that into a reasonable niche I think is pretty intelligent from them.

By: zcc

zcc — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:30:26 +0000

This post is so long and my eyes are poor now.

By: chan chi sang

chan chi sang — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:56:09 +0000

This model does not make sense. They say their advantage is that their site is English only but that is actually such a big disadvantage for the China market!

Building a English only job site for China is rather like building a Japanese only job site for the USA. By restricting your site to English you can at most reach 0.5% of that market.

Does it sound smart to you?

Actually on Zhaopin or ChinaHR you can ALSO post a job in ENGLISH only if you want and then you will only get replies from candidates that can read English, but I think the advantage of this is really irrelevant…