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Balancing the talent pool

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COMPANIES SEEKING staff for their expanding operations in China can choose to hire local people or source expatriates from Hong Kong, Asia and the global talent pool. But defining the best resourcing strategy is not always easy.

The question of how multinationals integrate their human resources in China was a subject of debate earlier this month at 'HR management in Greater China - best practices in talent attraction and retention', a seminar at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre organised by the South China Morning Post and Watson Wyatt.

Focusing on the evolving nature of recruitment and retention in the mainland, seminar moderator Vicky Wong, managing consultant of China executive search firm EPC Consulting, said that in the early years of the mainland's liberalisation most senior executives were sourced from a company's country of origin.

These days, however, most senior executives in China came from Hong Kong and China.

'Other executives come from Singapore, Taiwan or Malaysia. Only about 10 per cent of senior managers are international expatriates,' she said.

The decision to hire local or expatriate executives is based on a number of factors.

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