My name is Richard and I'm a Search Consultant with Wang & Li Asia Resources' Shanghai office (www.wang-li.com). As you may know, our recruitment firm specializes in introducing top-caliber, bilingual/international-oriented talent to leading multinational companies operating in China. Over the past 12 years, we have placed many middle to executive management-level professionals that include “homegrown", mainland returnee, regional, and overseas Chinese from around the world. From our work in this field, we are quite familiar with the career motivations and expectations of individuals like yourself in relation to today's hiring market realities in the mainland.

Currently, there is a well-recognized, strategic trend among many high-tech multinationals to move their research, design, and development capabilities from overseas to locations in China. This can be seen in the growing number of international Research Centers being established here, such as by Dell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Philips, Nokia, and Motorola, to name a few (btw, these companies are all Wang & Li clients that we support in this area). As such, their investment in this area is creating excellent career development opportunities that offer the chance to develop and demonstrate the ability to take on higher-level roles and responsibilities.

For these multinationals, however, among their biggest challenges is identifying international-caliber, research management professionals with a combination of solid technical background (especially those people who hold PhD degree and have excellent research experience in the fields of biomedical science, biophysics or clinical physics) , strong communication and people management skills, and good business and management sense who are able to handle the frequent communications and relationships with overseas parties and departments throughout a global organization. In involving us in their search assignments, most clients tell us up front that the (principal) scientific talents that they are looking for will not likely be found within the local market. Instead, they will likely be overseas Chinese and mainland returnees who are open to returning to China and pursuing opportunities here.

I'm not sure if there are any Chinese people who are actively looking for China-based opportunities, but I would be pleased to understand your current situation and background. We also welcome other non-tech Chinese people who want to back China to contact us. Also, please visit www.wang-li.com to understand us better. You can easily find my contact below. Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards

Richard Zhou
Consultant
Wang & Li Asia Resources
Tel: 8621-62885426-8018
Fax: 8621-62885421
Email: rzhou@wang-li.com
Website: www.wang-li.com