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The 2019 Second China Headhunting Industry Development Summit is successfully held on June 21st in Chongqing Human Resources Service Industrial Park.

On this occasion, our general manager Ms Karen Woong accepted an interview from Hualong.com.  According to Ms Woong, “Successfully hunting a senior talent is sometimes more like a psychological game.”  According to the “2019 Headhunting Industry Insight Report”, the headhunting process starts from the commissioning of the recruitment assignment whereby a recruitment project takes an average of 1-3 months to complete.  An average 45.67% of the headhunters complete a recruitment project within a period of about 3 months.  The people in the industry describe hunting talents as comparable to the pursuit of love.

Ms Karen Woong, General Manager, Chongqing WiseNet Asia Co., Ltd

From HR to headhunting for more than 10 years, Ms Karen Woong, General Manager of Chongqing WiseNet Asia Co., Ltd. bluntly said that it is a “marriage” for the company and talents.  Everything has variables. Once, to look for a sales director of an international company, the company picked an Italian from 10 recommended candidates, the two sides hit it off.  The candidate has three days to enter the job, but in the last minute said that he “does not want to jump”, which means that the year-long hunting plan has been abandoned. “My wife is pregnant, and there is no way for the company to take care of the family at this time.”  The candidate is apologetic.  In addition, the original company treated the welfare of the employees’ family members, which was obviously better than the new company.  Ms Karen Woong did not break the connection with the candidates. She recalled: “After a year, the job vacancy still exist, the client company once again proposed to recruit others. This time, the candidate who once rejected showed me his network, this single business was then successfully completed.”

An industry insider revealed that the high-end candidates are all “airborne soldiers”.  Whether they can control the team and survive in the enterprise, they also need the follow-up service of the headhunter.  “When the candidate failed to survive the three-month guarantee period, the headhunting company will only get 50% of the value of the order.” Previously, to help a packaging printing company in Singapore to find a professional and technical personnel, Ms Karen Woong turned to find the right person in India. When the other party flew from India to Singapore, a person came to the channel with his luggage. Ms Karen Woong decided to become his first local friend, this means one-to-one orientation including eating habits, cultural atmosphere, taking him to the supermarket, so that he can get used to the local life as soon as possible.  This year’s Spring Festival, the candidate’s phone call made Ms Karen Woong feel warm: “He said that when he returned to Singapore during the Spring Festival, he hoped to introduce his wife to me.”For many years, Ms Karen Woong often received something from the family members of the candidates such as greetings, hand-made desserts, etc.  The master of profound psychology, Ms Karen Woong feels that headhunting is a business that needs long term ‘efforts’, whereby you need to really think what is best for the job candidates and let them give you their heart. Headhunters often need to go out with candidates or customers to expand their network. They once recruited professional management talents for an international airport, whereby Ms Karen Woong flew directly to the Maldives.  This is a headhunting life exactly as shown in the TV series.

Extracted from Hualong.com – “Hunting in the Workplace” Chongqing WiseNet Asia.

8th anniversary

As we celebrate our 8th Year Anniversary, here is a little message to our job candidates, clients and business associates:

Looking back:

8 years from a small head hunter firm to a regional HR consultancy; 
8 years of hard work, tenacity and team chemistry that make things happen;
8 years of relentless drive in placing and developing talents, and building partnerships with companies of the same purpose.


Our 8th year key milestones:

*     Going regional.  Started in 2011 and based in Singapore, WiseNet Asia has expanded to other locations in Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong in China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

*    The HR firm with the highest number of employees’ retention.  The 3 longest employees have stayed with the company since day 1.  Turnover on average year-on-year is below 10%.

*    Pioneer HR firm in Belt & Road Initiative/Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (CCI).  WiseNet Asia has been actively involved in the Talent Development and Business Matching aspects of the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative since it’s inception in Nov 2015.  CCI is part of the greater Belt and Road Initiative which is estimated to be running close to 1 trillion in 3 regions.  In 2018, WiseNet (Chongqing) is accredited as one of the Talent Acquisition Service Provider for Chongqing Municipality from 2018-2019 under the HongYan (talent) policy.  Another award is the ‘Chongqing Municipality Talent Attraction Work Station’ by Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.

In 2011, Wesley Hui, founder of the company, said to his staff “I see myself as someone who is able to help people find real meaning and value by placing them in the right career path, at the same time, I help companies grow in many ways.  I don’t see this as a transactional service because it’s about the unquantifiable value that means a lot to everyone.” 

8 years later, in WiseNet Asia, it is still about delivering real meaning and value, in talent acquisition, talent development, HR outsourcing and in everything that we do.

We look forward to working with all of you for more successful talents placements, more talents development and more successful collaborations.

Cheers to a meaningful future together ahead,

From all of us at #wisenetasia

December 2018

Successfully closed the position of HR Business Partner for a major distributor of electronic components in Singapore.

 

November 2018

Successfully closed the position of Marketing Manager in China for a leading company in property investments, development, and management.

 

 

 

August 2018

Successfully closed the position of Business Development Director in Chongqing, China.  The client is a major engineering group based in Singapore.

 

 

 

July 2018

Assisted our client, an investment holding company in the consumer electronics industry to close the role of Senior Product Director in the Philippines.

 

 

 

July 2018

Successfully closed the position of Marketing Director in China.  The client is a leading investment company in Asia Pacific with diversified interest in real estate and natural resources.

 

 

 

July 2018

Successfully closed the position of Operations Director in China.  The client is a leading investment company in Asia Pacific with diversified interest in real estate and natural resources.

 

 

 

Jun 2018

Assisted our client, one of the leading retail-focused Real Estate Investment Trusts in Malaysia, to close the role of Executive Director, Real Estate Funds

 

 

Original source from China People’s Daily.  View source in Chinese:  https://bit.ly/2tpLcPV

 

19 Jun 2018 —

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Chongqing Guoyuan Port plays an important role in the multimodal transport system. The picture shows a ship unloading at the Port

In September 2017, Chongqing Connectivity Initiative’s Southern Corridor bound multi-modal transportation of rail and sea ways starting its journey from the Chongqing Railway Port

In September 2017, Chongqing Connectivity Initiative’s Southern Transport Corridor bound multi-modal transportation of rail and sea ways starting its journey from the Chongqing Railway Port

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Photo courtesy of Chongqing Gongyun ASEAN International Logistics Co., Ltd.

The first shuttle truck from Chongqing to the ASEAN roads took off from Chongqing ASEAN International Logistics Park on 28 April, 2016, the 10 standard container trucks loaded with export goods passed through Pingxiang, Guangxi, and finally arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam. The journey took about 40 hours, which was 15 days shorter than sea transport.

The trade channel is changing – starting from Singapore, via the Southern Transport Corridor, the container rail and sea transportation arrive in Chongqing in 10 days, which saves 15 days compared to the Jianghai-Channel intermodal route;

The logistics efficiency is changing – the multimodal intelligent system can find cargo information in 5 minutes, realize rapid container collection, and solve the problems of pallet configuration that has plagued the enterprise for many years;

The service industry is changing – the goods, technologies and resources are coming together. New business opportunities have given birth to a number of foreign trade services such as multimodal transport, cross-border big data platforms, and joint venture business collaborations.

Business exchanges are growing – Chongqing and Singapore’s round-trip passenger flow has increased from 45,000 in the past to 190,000 last year, there are more and more business travellers.  Flights have increased from 5 to 14 per week;

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The changes originated from the third government-to government project between China and Singapore.

On November 7, 2015, the third inter-governmental cooperation project, the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Strategic Interconnection Demonstration Project (hereinafter referred to as ” Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (CCI)”), “settled in” Chongqing. Over the past two years, with the theme of “modern interconnection and modern service economy”, 116 key projects with a total value of approximately US$20.8 billion have taken root in Chongqing in the four major areas of financial services, aviation industry, transportation and logistics, and information and communications. “.

Southern Transport Corridor Connects International Shipping Network

On April 19th, a 40-foot container full of mold raw materials set off from Singapore. Ten days later, Yi Shen Die Technology (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. successfully received the goods.

This speed of delivery makes the company’s inventory manager Tan Yu happy.  Prior to this, importing goods from Singapore through Jianghai, first arrived in Shanghai and then entered Chongqing, which took nearly a month. “Today, the goods are sent from Singapore, first to Guangxi’s Qinzhou Port and then to “Chongqing New” Railway Sea Intermodal Class to Chongqing. The entire process takes only 10 days.”

This new line is the southbound channel of the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative (hereinafter referred to as the “Southern Transport Corridor”).

As the operation center, Chongqing has a unique geographical advantage. To the west, the Chongqing-Europe railway (YuXinOu) reaches China’s northwest, Central Asia, and Europe; towards east, it connects Shanghai to the sea via the “Golden Waterway” of the Yangtze River. To the south, more than 250 routes converge at the Singapore Port on the southeast side of the Strait of Malacca.

Through the construction of the Southern Transport Corridor, complimented by the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.  All three logistics infrastructure completed a perfect trade network.

In September 2017, the Changgui New Tiehai Intermodal trains are fixed as routines and marked the official operation of the Southern Transport Corridor: starting from Chongqing to Qinzhou Port in Guangxi, and connecting sea to reach the ASEAN ports, and then connecting to the international shipping network. network.

At the same time, Chongqing’s cross-border road transport and international rail transport to the Indochina peninsula are also being realized.

Cross-border highway shuttle bus line: It departs from Nanpen Chongqing and exits through border ports in Guangxi and Yunnan, leading to countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.

International railway transport links: From the southwestern railway network, through Pingxiang, Hekou, Mohan, Ruili and other border ports, and the Pan-Asian railway network convergence, connecting the Indochina Peninsula.

Three lines, vertical and horizontal miles, complement each other.  Southward, the “secondary governor” of foreign trade in the western region of China was opened up; to the north, the economic and trade exchanges between Singapore and other ASEAN countries leading to western China, Central Asia, and Europe were invigorated. “This will connect most of China’s entire territory with Southeast Asia, Eurasia, and Africa, greatly increasing the speed of cargo transportation,” said Zheng Yongnian, director of the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore.

On April 20th, a batch of LCD screens from Vietnam took only 10 hours to reach Qinzhou Port from Vietnam, then onto Chongqing via the Southern Transport Corridor.  The LCDs went on the same day’s Chongqing-Europe railway (YuXinOu) to Poland.

“It takes only 90 minutes to complete the sea-railway transport up to customs declaration in Qinzhou Port. It takes only 70 minutes to complete the railway transit declaration at the Chongqing Railway Port, and it is very fast and efficient!” said Wang Yupei, Chairman of China-Singapore Southern Transport Corridor.   Southern Transport Corridor and Chongqing-Europe railway (YuXinOu) together have achieved seamless convergence.

Currently, the internal and external ports of the Southern Transport Corridor rail and sea transports covered 82 ports in 45 countries and regions including East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East.

Chan Chun Sing, Minister of Trade and Industry of Singapore, interprets the goal of the Southern Transport Corridor as ‘one channel that connects China and Singapore, one rail and sea intermodal network that reaches every part of the world’.

”Innovation” –

The Chongqing Connectivity Initiative project connects China and Singapore’s strategic channels.  Unlike China-Singapore cooperation in the construction of Suzhou Industrial Park and Tianjin Eco-City, this project has no land development and park planning, and it has no physical scenes.

Han Baochang, director of the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative Management Bureau, stated that there is no precedent when carrying out this project, there are only trials and errors.

In Zheng Yongnian’s view, when there is no physical entity, the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative project will face greater challenges than the previous two Sino-Singapore cooperation projects, and it will have more important innovation significance.

To achieve a “from 0 to 1” leap, we must grasp the “golden key” of innovation. The relevant national ministries and commissions gave support to the project’s 57 innovation initiatives.  In 2017, Chongqing also proposed some new innovation measures.

Innovation begins with the working mechanism. The Joint Implementation Committee “discovered problems”, the Joint Working committee “researched issues”, and the Joint Coordination Council “solved problems.” “The three-tiered working mechanism, ‘from the bottom to the top’, opens up the blockage and promotes problem solving. This is the most attractive facet for the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative,” said Han Baochang.

Step by step, the purpose of Chongqing Connectivity Initiative is increasingly becoming more meaningful.

In March this year, Sasseur REIT was listed on the Singapore Exchange.  As the Western regions first real estate investment trust listed in the Singapore Exchange, this is of great significance for the exploration of the new cross-border financing model for enterprises in the central and western regions.

There are many more “firsts” created under the umbrella of Chongqing Connectivity Initiative: In December 2016, Loncin Holdings issued 0.8 billion yuan of overseas bonds on the Singapore Exchange, the first private corporate bond in western China. It pioneered the launch of innovative financial services such as bill-bill financing, “export double-pace” trade financing, cross-border asset transfer, and inland river carrier liability insurance.

Today, both China and Singapore sides have established diversified cross-border investment and financing channels, cumulatively completed 60 types of cross-border credit financing projects with financing amount of US$5.06 billion, and reduce financing costs by 1.15 percentage points. The cross-border financing for the provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai, Shaanxi and other provinces amounted to 2.23 billion U.S. dollars, and the successful implementation of the China-Singapore cross-border financing model radiated to neighbouring provinces.

Through cooperation with Singapore companies, Chongqing companies are also advancing in innovation. A few years ago, Ding Yan’s Chongqing Pucheng Logistics Co., Ltd. had to implement rapid consolidation through manual inquiries and telephone calls. The Singapore Huilian Group’s multimodal intelligent system requires only the input of container, departure port, and destination information, and cargo information can be found within 5 minutes. Seeing this, Ding Yan immediately agreed to the requirement of “51% stake in the company.” Last May, the two companies jointly set up a new company – Chongqing Huilian Pucheng International Logistics Co., Ltd.

Ding Yan benefited from the sophisticated management brought by innovation: from the numerous departments and the complex management level, to the development of individual assessment and profit indicators according to the branch company model; from focusing on the cost of employing personnel to the use of a comprehensive compensation system.  “The staff has increased by 1/3, but the efficiency has more than doubled.” Ding Yan said: “Even the design of the warehouse has been optimized and innovative, and the warehouse has become a double storey. The increase in cost per square meter is less than 1,000 yuan, but the area of usage has increased by twofold.”

Many small and medium-sized enterprises are not able to form a full case of transportation due to the small volume of goods. The Chongqing Connectivity Initiative has brought business opportunities for Chinese and Singaporean companies collaborations.  Fuxin Europe (Chongqing) Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. and Singapore Huantong Logistics Group jointly established Zhongxin Huantong (Chongqing) Multimodal Transport Co., Ltd. in February last year to provide public LCL services.  Mixed pallet price is similar in shipping, but it also saves time,” said Wang Huoquan, deputy general manager of the company.

“Sharing” –

Expanding channels of “friends circle”

Chongqing Liangjiang Digital Economy Industrial Park, an office building with coffee and musk – this is the Chongqing Coffee Exchange Center.  Sun Zheng, Deputy General Manager of the center, said that before, coffee beans imported from Vietnam were shipped to Chongqing via JiangHai intermodal transport route, processed into coffee powder and sent back to Vietnam. After the launch of the Southern Transport Corridor, the time efficiencies for transportation has greatly increased, and foreign companies have set up factories in Chongqing.

As the largest coffee spot trading place in China, Chongqing Coffee Exchange Center will also sell coffee from Yunnan and Southeast Asia to Europe to form an agglomeration of the global coffee industry.

Not just for coffee commodity, after the Southern Transport Corridor and the Chongqing European Railway (Chongqing YuXinOu Railway) are seamlessly connected, the canned tuna in the Philippines, Vietnamese clothing, etc. will no longer need to be transferred from Iran. After customs declaration at the Chongqing Railway Bonded Logistics Center, the goods can board on the Chongqing European Railway the same day, depart China from Xinjiang and arrived in Germany in less than 20 days.  Onions, apples, summer vegetables, and Chinese herbal medicines in northwestern China have also begun to become “demanding goods” in Southeast Asian countries.

“The higher the amount of freight traffic aggregated on the channel, the more participants there are and the greater the economies of scale, which can reduce costs, benefit all parties including enterprises, benefit the business environment in western China, and promote investment.” Chan Chun Sing said.

As the Southern Transport Corridor continues to expand through multiplying effects, the economic values for it’s surrounding areas are enhanced.  As an operation center, Chongqing will cooperate with Guangxi, Guizhou, Gansu, and Qinghai to conduct regional cooperation and jointly discuss the establishment and sharing of the Southern Transport Corridor.  In April of this year, the Southern Transport Corridor Chinese joint meeting has invited Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces to participate.

The channel is not a simple “aisle”.  It needs continuous improvements in services. China-Singapore Smart City has launched pilot projects in five districts and counties, and cooperation in smart transportation, smart animal husbandry and smart buildings is underway. Three unattended supermarkets will be launched in Singapore during the year; the data service platform went online in April this year. The platform gathered information on corporate data from the two countries and promoted the transnational development of enterprises. The Zimwork Sino-Bilingual Talent Service Trading Platform has been officially launched as joint venture between Chongqing Zhūbājiè Network and Singapore Press Holdings Group.

Interconnection, creating new opportunities for opening up inland

Since the beginning of this year, WiseNet Asia (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. has added 10 Singaporean corporate customers who are preparing to invest in Chongqing.  Karen Wong, GM of WiseNet Asia (Chongqing), plans to recruit more talents from the neighboring provinces.  According to Karen, “Southern Transport Corridor connects Singapore with the mainland of China. Our business is getting busier.”

 

About WiseNet Asia (Chongqing) /重庆中新巍海商务咨询有限公司

Wisenet Asia (Chongqing)/重庆中新巍海商务咨询有限公司 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wisenet Asia (S) Pte Ltd.  It is the first overseas high-end headhunter company in Chongqing’s Human Resources Industrial Park, dedicated to implementing the Chongqing Municipality’s HongYan (talent) scheme, and helping Chongqing organizations in their talent needs.  The company was also selected as one of the Talent Acquisition Service Provider for Chongqing Municipality from 2018-2019 under the HongYan (talent) policy.

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WisenetAsia awarded the ‘Chongqing Municipality Talent Attraction Office’ by Chongqing Municipal Bureau of HR & Social Security

8 Jun 2018 – WisenetAsia (Chongqing) and Chongqing Industry Park of Human Resources signed an agreement for recruitment of  high-end talents.  For this, WisenetAsia (Chongqing) is awarded the ‘Chongqing Municipality Talent Attraction Work Station’ by Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.

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In recent years, with the steady development of the social economy, the demand for high-end talent in Chongqing has soared. The city has successively introduced a number of talent attraction policies, such as the Hong Yan program, and has increased efforts to “motivate the talents” and hopes to successfully introduce more high-end talents to Chongqing to live and work. In order to encourage headhunting companies to settle in and recruit talent for Chongqing’s socio-economic development, the Chongqing Human Resources Service Industrial Park officially established the nation’s first headhunting base. The first objective is to implement the strategy of vigorously attracting talents; the second is to support the development of the headhunting industry in Chongqing.

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Xie Xin, Deputy Director of the Industrial Park Management Committee, and Wang Xiaojian, Member of the Standing Committee and Organization Department of Yubei District of Chongqing Municipality, unveiled the headhunting base for the Industrial Park.

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Headhunting companies receiving their awards

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WisenetAsia (Chongqing)/重庆中新巍海商务咨询有限公司 is a wholly owned subsidiary of WisenetAsia.  It is the first overseas high-end headhunter company in Chongqing’s Human Resources Industrial Park.  The company was also selected as one of the talent acquisition service provider for Chongqing Municipality from 2018-2019 under the HongYan (talent) policy.

WisenetAsia is established in year 2011 in Singapore, with an employment agency license issued by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower. The company specialized in high end talent acquisition from mid to senior level management, and has a database of more than 50,000 international talent information. Headquartered in Singapore, WisenetAsia’s other locations include Kuala Lumpur, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

WisenetAsia works with customers in various industries including real estate, technology, financial services, infrastructure, investment funds, health care, aviation and logistics.  It’s client base consist of state-owned enterprises, multinationals and government linked companies.

 

 

Feb. 2018 – WiseNet Asia Pte Ltd is appointed as Consultant to Chongqing Aerotropolis & Investment Promotion Co, a state owned enterprise set up for promoting investment opportunities in Chongqing Yubei District.

As a Consultant to Chongqing Aerotropolis & Investment Promotion Co, WiseNet Asia is authorized to provide investment promotion advisory services, project planning consultation, events planning and facilitating collaborations in the areas of aviation, finance, ICT, healthcare, legal for Sino Singapore Aviation Hub and Xiantou Big Data Valley.

 

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