Headhunter: Investment Firms Looking for China-Savvy MBA Grads
Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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Headhunter: Investment Firms Looking for China-Savvy MBA Grads
Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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Headhunter: Investment Firms Looking for China-Savvy MBA Grads
Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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Headhunter: Investment Firms Looking for China-Savvy MBA Grads
Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, spoke to CKGSB MBA students about demand in the Chinese job market.
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Beijing | February 16, 2011 – "This is a golden time" for MBA graduates with multicultural work experience to find work in the private equity sector in China, according to M.H. Alice Au, a senior executive at executive search firm Spencer Stuart with over 15 years of experience in the headhunting industry.
Au, who was formerly CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International (Asia-Pacific), spoke today to an audience of CKGSB MBA students at the school's Beijing campus on her experience within the search industry and her views on the Chinese job market. Both domestic and multinational companies in China, she said, are increasingly looking for applicants able to bring together a familiarity with Western business practice and management styles and a knowledge of the Chinese market. She added that "almost every client" of hers asks about this sort of "Chinese talent," whether they are foreign companies hoping to enter or increase their presence in China or Chinese companies with the ambition to compete globally.
This is particularly true, she added, for companies specializing in investment, including in the private equity/venture capital and investment banking sectors. Au described how demand for young professionals with the ability both to find attractive deals in China and to use an international business education to analyze a company's bottom line very quickly is booming; one investment bank, she said, told her that they would need "100 investment bankers in the next twelve months."
Au concluded by offering advice to the students on how they can appear on the radar of top search firms as their careers progress. First, she urged students to "leave a track record" at each place they work; while it is not necessarily a bad thing to change employers frequently, they should do their best to leave behind a solid record of accomplishments that they and their employers can point to as their legacy. Second, students should act with integrity; businesses prefer to employ executives with a reputation for doing the right thing and for acting with loyalty to their companies, who abide by the "social contract" between themselves and their employers. Lastly, students should build a reputation as good team members, as the ability both to lead and to follow is essential at all levels of business.
By cultivating these qualities, Au said, graduates of the CKGSB program, which instills students both with intimate knowledge of the Chinese and global business environments and with world-class management theory and practice, have the potential to succeed both in the short term and throughout their careers.
About Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Founded in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit, and independent business school. Based in Beijing, the school has a network of international offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs.
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