Shenzhen will open its first overseas recruitment center for professionals in Silicon Valley in the United States on Sept 18.
The center will be affiliated to Qinghua University's Shenzhen Graduate School, which has an office in Silicon Valley.
After six months' preparation, the center had introduced five professional start-up teams to Shenzhen, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday (Aug 31).
The city government would provide subsidies to the enterprises and institutes which set up talent recruitment centers overseas, according to the city's human resources and social security bureau.
An overseas recruitment center would be charged with introducing innovative professionals or teams to Shenzhen. It would also organize visits by professionals and assist the local government in conducting overseas job fairs. It would also be responsible for establishing links with overseas Chinese organizations and promoting demand in Shenzhen for overseas professionals by setting up data bases for overseas talent, the Daily said.
The city would focus on introducing senior experts working in foreign colleges or scientific research institutes, professionals taking up management posts in overseas enterprises, experts with cutting-edge scientific achievements, professionals who master core technology in emerging industries like finance and new energy, as well as professionals urgently needed in Shenzhen, according to the bureau.
Professionals should be aged below 50 and have a master's degree or above, plus at least three years of overseas work experience.
Shenzhen would recruit more than 1,000 professionals for senior positions from overseas in mid-September, according to the bureau. Recruiting would be conducted in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The city government first went abroad to recruit professionals in 1992. This will be the seventh time the city government has gone abroad to recruit.
The 2010 Conference on International Exchange of Professionals, to be held in Shenzhen on Oct 29 and 30, will be promoted overseas during the recruitment campaign.
(By Martin Li)
