Non teaching jobs in China?

Question

I speak conversational Mandarin and can write quite well, looking for a job with an AMERICAN or EUROPEAN company in CHINA. I am currently in the Quality Assurance field of Customer Service and looking for something similar or maybe corporate training. Anyone know of companies with a presence in China that I can look up?????

keep in mind i do not have portable skills like computer, IT, etc. skills. i am in customer service. i have tried to search the internet for customer service QA and training jobs in china; CANT FIND ANY

Answer 1

Have you thought about an online business?
I have some that do extremely well and it allows me the freedom to do other enjoyable things in life.

If you want to know how send me an e-mail.
I can point you in the right direction.

All the best to you

Answer 2

I'm in Guangzhou and in the QA field myself.

Applying direct to companies, in my opinion, isn't the best way to secure QA employment here - apart from companies you specifically wish to work for I suppose. I'm certain you'll be quite impressed by the number of QA-related job opportunities advertised on monster.com.hk and classified post at scmp.com.

There are two areas where manufacturing is very heavily concentrated: Southern/Central Guangdong Province across border from Hong Kong and Zhejiang Province, inland from Shanghai and down the coast to Ningbo and beyond. You'll quite possibly find most job vacancies are in these two areas. However, lesser-sized industrial centres are everywhere nowadays.

Salaries vary wildy but I'd stick my neck out and say that a QA Manager, 15-20 years experience, specialized in one product area can easily earn, per month, Hong Kong Dollars 60,000-80,000 (roughly 4,000-5,200 British Pounds) before tax.

Take a care with the payment details of any salary offered as the Chinese govt has gradually tightened rules applying to foreign workers, especially the big earners, and as a consequence, local terms (i.e. Chinese Yuan and very high income tax) are more common these days. If applying to a newly established or smallish company, you have a fair chance of arranging two payments, a local salary in Chinese Yuan (1/4-1/3 of total salary is usual) which is declared and taxed as required by law and a foreign hard currency payment into an overseas bank account. While this remains a grey area in China, it is a common practice.

I'd also advise prioritising jobs where you're able to live in, or at least near to, a city. Shanghai is normally considered the best city in China as it's modern and cosmopolitan. Beijing and Guangzhou are the other main cities here and I'd say these 3 places are superior places to live and work.

I wouldn't like to be one of the relatively few foreigners stuck in heavily-industrial centres such as Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan etc. so do make sure you know what you're letting yourself in for by researching first.

Hope this helps and good luck. I'll keep an eye out for any follow-up questions you might have.

Answer 3

Just about any company in the Fortune 500.

Instead of just looking for anything, why don't you narrow your search down to companies that do something that interests you? You're going to be talking a lot of business, so it might as well be something you find at least a little bit interesting.

When I lived in Beijing, there were a ton of foreign companies there, which really surprised me, because at the time (1996), I still thought they were "old school" communists.

IBM, Honeywell, Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury's, Nestle, Kraft, Nabisco, Coca Cola, Pepsi, McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Domino's, TGI Friday's, Chili's, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Toyota...the list goes on, and on, and on...

Check out "alternative" English newspapers from China. Most of them have a web page, with a classified section. A good one to try (at least while I was there) was Beijing Scene. Link below.

Answer 4

What is customer service qa? Is it a recognized field? Is sounds very specific and very hard to imagine as a standard career name.

mjo gives a good background on qa in general, can't you work with that as a beginning and start from there?

Answer 5

http://english.zhaopin.com/ This is one of the best help wanted websites in China. Hope you can find something. Or you can ask on http://ask.jongo.com/ they answer all China-related questions.

Answer 6

the folks at journeyeast.org are hiring for people to work for them in China.. Send them a resume, they have a great program in China.

Answer 7

hunney here in western Pa. you can name your salary for some these local company's just because you good at Mandarin. i will also add i love to go to a chinesse restraunt with you that be a blast