Find the right candidate.

As an Internet company with ten years of history, we have core business of news, video, social media, and education. As our partner, Hudson has made our work much easier – with their diverse candidate pool, they are able to help us solve staffing problems by providing talents in almost all areas. 

We have an R&D center in Shanghai, and we are actively hiring people. However, in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai area, there is only a limited pool of experienced and highly-skilled people, getting us into a fierce competition for talent. So it usually takes long time to fill a vacancy. Hudson's advantage lies in their high sensitivity to the latest industry information. They know which pharma company might be tweaking business plans, which foreign company might be making redundancies. They were able to share this kind of information with us quickly and thus made a big difference to the cost and efficiency of our recruitment.

Over the last few years, China has become the most important consumer market. While growing fast, we are now facing the challenges that we’ve never met before, like how to open 20 new stores in a single day. We were quite surprised by Hudson’s extensive network of great talents in the retail sector. I can say that Hudson has been able to meet demands that no other recruitment company could manage. I look forward a long and successful partnership with them.

We do a lot of licensing work, so we have a constant need to hire financial talents. In the past, we always had to go around all the head hunters one by one, but now Hudson handles more than half of all our needs. As our partnership continues, we find that we don't have to give them a full briefing on every single project. They’ve known us very well. 

We’re growing globally – with that said, at the peak we were hiring over 10,000 people a month. So we often need a lot of assistance from talent solution providers. Among all partners, Hudson is the one who always take on the most tough challenges. We need top candidates who are flexible about employment and can quickly get onboard. Hudson has been able to give us perfect solutions.

Our labour needs are quite complex. For different positions such as product, technology, operation and design, there are different requirements of educational background and experience. Hudson understands our key object and talent profile very well and has been able to give us a lot of useful advice in the hiring process.

The fact that we are state-funded means that there are severe restrictions on hiring permanent staff. That has posed the impact on our fast growth. Hudson was able to fund us the senior candidates that our business demands plus flexible staffing options. Their solution is tailor-made for our situation.

We invest a lot of time and manpower in recruitment while the situation is not stable, sometimes we need to rehire for the same position. In addition, we are burdened with high costs in management, training, etc. How to reduce these costs is an urgent issue for us to think about and address.

The manpower that our business volume requires is always changing due to fluctuations in time and market cycle as well as other changes.

Recruitment, daily management, benefits ...... We are facing different risks in every aspect and we always want to have very professional partners to help us control and minimize these risks.

As our business is soaring, we definitely need more suitable talents to keep up. Therefore, we're under a lot of pressure. How can we find the right people and get them in place quickly in a short period of time?