New Choice Of Professional Managers: Foreign VS Local Enterprises

I must admit that over the years, I have not been optimistic about job opportunities from local enterprises. It has been 12 years since the establishment of a headhunting company in Shanghai. Whenever a candidate from a multinational company asks whether he should choose to go to local businesses, I will always tell them: "as far as I am concerned, I will not consider it, nor do I suggest others consider such an opportunity."

Whether facing China or foreign countries Occupation My answer is so.

The reason is that there is a great gap between local enterprises and transnational corporations in terms of operation, management, and the concept and standard of operation. For this reason, I have always believed that multinationals still surpass local businesses in terms of career platforms, development opportunities and development training for their employees. This is an ideal choice for professionals.

But 3 years ago, things began to change. If someone asks me the same question, I will give different answers.

At present, I see more and more Chinese enterprises become an excellent platform for accelerating personal career development. Moreover, some excellent domestic enterprises can even provide better development opportunities than multinational corporations.

From past experience, it is always those well-known multinational enterprises that generally provide the best opportunities for career development and promotion. With leading products, services and global market leadership, these companies not only have the leading business operation, but also provide solid and standardized professional training. In it, you have more chances to get into contact with international people, things and resources. In general, multinational companies have more professional standards, more stringent requirements and more professional development environment than most local companies.

It is precisely because of this, in order to achieve business Mode, Administration With the internationalization of operation and other aspects, local enterprises are beginning to spare no effort to recruit troops from multinational enterprises. There is no doubt that only the old employees of local enterprises can not accomplish international transformation. The objectives of the reform include helping enterprises to introduce and establish business, operation systems and relevant norms and standards that meet the standards of first-class transnational enterprises.

Usually, the CEO of these companies is the one who truly understands the company's status quo and believes that the company needs change. At the same time, they also know clearly that those veterans who have helped the company fight the world have been hard to help enterprises successfully enter the next stage of development.

Even some of the executives in the company have the same commitment to change with CEO. But for most people, change is not what they want. The faster the company changes, the less value they can create for the company. Most of them have never been professionally trained in multinational companies, lack of international thinking and lack of high standard of action. Some people even do not have enough basic English skills.

Generally speaking, no one is directly opposed to CEO, but in fact, they do not actively support change work.

As headhunters, we have seen countless times that candidates who have made remarkable achievements in multinational companies have encountered Waterloo in local enterprises.

But we also see that nowadays, more and more local enterprises are becoming mature in terms of business and management mode. Among them, Suntech's solar energy, Tencent, Youku, Anta and other rapidly developing local enterprises are sufficient to provide excellent development platform for local professionals. They are in the leading position in the local industry and focus on the international market in the near future.

The question arises. How to assess which local enterprises really deserve to join? In fact, when asked about the question of whether a local company should be considered, there should be some suggestions for professional managers.

I suggest that people pay attention to whether or not there are professionals from multinational companies. This shows that the company has, at least to some extent, completed the running in stage with its background professionals. At the same time, it also proves that someone has successfully completed the transformation of the occupational environment in this company before you.

In particular, you should pay attention to whether any of the executives in the company come from multinational companies. The implementation of new initiatives and new ideas is top-down. Therefore, you must ensure that the executives in the company can support your work and have similar business cognition and behavior with you.

Many Chinese enterprises are experiencing unprecedented opportunities brought by the new wave of development. Choosing the right local enterprises will undoubtedly speed up your career development process. During that time, you will have the opportunity to get many important missions and opportunities that foreign companies can not give. Of course, such an environment will also maximize your capacity and achievements in multinational companies.

In order to illustrate this point, I often quote an example of "Superman". If you know the story of Superman, you must know that Superman comes from KRYPTON planet. Superman is not special there because everyone has superpowers. Multinationals are like KRYPTON. Although you have a professional training background, an international vision and behavior mode, you are well versed in the business mode and operation of the world standard, but you are not outstanding. Because everyone there has such qualities.

In fact, it was when Superman came to earth that he became Superman. For professionals, the transition from multinational companies to local businesses is also very similar. Suddenly, you have the ability to accomplish the mission that others can't accomplish. Here, you become a truly influential leader.

For any person, the transformation from a multinational company to a local enterprise means that it will soon face the stage of rapid learning and adaptation. At the same time, it also means that you need to spend more energy to persuade and influence those who are different from your way of thinking and behavior to accept and identify your views. You may have less resources than before, and more energy will be needed to accomplish the same tasks and tasks. It must be said that for most people, such a change is not easy. However, once you can successfully adapt, your career prospects will be hard for others to compare.

A director of human resources transferred to a local company after 20 years in a multinational company once told us that although there are many difficult problems to deal with in local enterprises, there are many advantages that multinationals can not compare with.

"The decision makers of overseas headquarters know little about the Chinese market. In order to enable them to support our decision, we have to teleconferencing with them in the early morning to keep the data in order. Finally, one day, I began to feel extremely tired and tired of all this. He told us, "in my current local company, the whole company's top management team is with me. They feel empathy with me for the market. Decisions are made more timely and plan implementation is more efficient. "