“Job in China”, as one of the popular searches on Google, shows that China has already become a popular destination for expats to work abroad. Each year, millions of expats full of adventure spirit come to China to seek for job opportunity and immerse into a totally different culture. Do you also want to find a job and experience a new life in China? Let us start here.
Basic Requirements for Expats to Work in China
Before making your decision to find job in China, one thing you should know first is that China has set some basic requirements for foreign talents and only you meet these requirements can you apply to work in China legally. Expats who want to work in China must hold Bachelor Degree or above with 2 Years of Working Experience. Moreover, expats should have Clean Criminal Background and do Medical Check. Last, as same as the Chinese retirement age, expats should under 55 (women) / 60 (men) years old.
Job-hunting in China
Many expats in China/oversea have the same concern that how to find hiring information in China without knowing Chinese. Actually language barrier is not more a big problem for job hunting even for living in China. Since hiring companies have urgent recruiting needs, recruiters will try their best to inform their target candidates about job openings by posting job info on main social media oversea. So actually facebook and LinkedIn are both useful ways for your job hunting. Joining in some work groups in these two platforms and checking all job info in different groups. After finding out the job occupation which you are interested in, contact the recruiter for more details and remember to check the credibility of this job info as well.
Jobsite for your Job Hunt in China
Using professional Job Website to seek for job in China is also a good method for your job hunting in China. In recent years, so many job websites are created especially for expats to find job in China. No to mention the English vision of job information in these job websites, expats can also build up their special online resume to promote themselves to Chinese recruiters. While the importance of building up completed online resume has been overlooked by many foreign job seekers. You must know that Chinese recruiters attach more importance to the working experience of candidates’ online resumes. They prefer to check candidates’ online resumes to look for some relative working experience and then judge whether they should contact candidates or not. So it can be said that you lost a good chance to promote yourself to Chinese recruiters by completing your online resume.
Jobs for foreigners in China
There is always a stereotype that expats can only find English teaching jobs in China. Of course we cannot deny that English teaching jobs are the most popular and most common job for expats in China, while more and more non-teaching jobs are open to expats in recent years. Once you log in some job websites, you can find that there are so many urgent hiring needs for non-teaching talents. There are some popular non-teaching jobs in China for your career choice:
1. Project manager
2. Sales
3. Videogame brand manager
4. Game localization
5. Game test engineer
6. Event manager
7. Marketing
8. Designer
9. Education Consultant
10. Translator
There are also other interesting jobs have not been listed here. Bearing in mind that candidates owning relative working experience will be prefer by Chinese recruiters. But do not worry, confident and brave fresh talents are also welcome to build up your career life in China.