Chapter 17 Crazy Talent

The extremely high profits of the e-commerce business have made Bai Qiwen, the marketing manager, unable to sit still. In recent days, he has been paying close attention to the e-commerce business and has been urging the human resources department to speed up recruitment.

The e-commerce business is growing too fast, and their marketing department is running out of people... After all, the marketing department staff also have other businesses to take care of, and it is impossible to transfer all of them to work on e-commerce.

Therefore, recruiting people is a must.

Not only the marketing department needs to recruit people, almost all other departments need to recruit people... Even the human resources department itself is understaffed due to the heavy recruitment pressure, and thus has to recruit more human resources department employees.

With the rapid growth of its business, the entire Weiku Electronics has entered a path of rapid expansion.

However, recruiting other personnel is not difficult. There is no need to hire at high prices. The market price is enough, and we can still recruit enough employees in a timely manner.

But recruiting staff for the R&D department is not easy!

After the meeting, HR manager Luo Yinian went to the R&D department and found Xie Jianyong: "Old Xie, it's not that I don't work hard, but it's really hard to find engineers for smartphone projects in the market nowadays!"

"Ordinary technicians are fine. We can still recruit them if we raise the salary a bit. But the technical backbone and team leader-level experts you want for the smart phone project are really hard to find!"

Xie Jianyong was unhappy when he heard this: "I'm not asking you to find those technical tycoons with an annual salary of millions. I'm just asking you to find some backbones who can do some small projects. How can you not find them? Besides, the salary we offer is not low. There are plenty of people willing to come with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands."

Luo Yinian got angry when he heard this: "It's still hundreds of thousands. What's the point of you cheating me, old man? Are you bullying me because I don't know the technology?"

"You gave me a staffing requirement form three days ago. I asked you how much salary you could offer, and you said 100,000 yuan would be enough. But when I went to ask the human resources company I was working with, they treated me like a fool..."

"You know what he said to me at the time? He said, 'Brother Luo, these positions require quite a lot of talent, and we have to pay a premium to poach them. I'm afraid the annual salary won't be enough unless it's 300,000!"

"Three hundred thousand... that's more than my salary!"

"I was so stupid as to ask if a salary of 100,000 yuan a year would be okay?"

"Do you know how they looked at me at that time? They looked at me as if I were a fool... just like how I'm looking at you now!"

"An annual salary of 100,000 yuan. I called a candidate to inquire about his interest and offered 150,000 yuan. He called me a psychopath and hung up on me..."

"I wonder if you could be more reliable and make the talent requirements more accurate!"

Speaking of recruiting technical personnel for the R&D department, Luo Yinian is full of bitterness...

It is easy to find technicians who can make feature phones. There are a lot of talented people like this on the market.

Especially since this place is located in Shenzhen and is close to Huaqiang South, there are not many other things here, but there are many people making copycat phones, so there are a lot of related talents, and you can hire a very good technician for a few thousand yuan.

However, it is difficult to find R&D personnel for smartphone projects.

After all, there are very few companies in China that make smartphones. There are only rumors in the industry that Huawei has a relatively strong smartphone project team, and Meizu also has one. Other major brand companies are also involved to varying degrees.

Overall, there are still too few talented people in the relevant smart phone fields, and even fewer talented people working outside.

During this period, he ran around everywhere, visited all the human resources companies in Shenzhen, but couldn't find many suitable ones. In the end, he found a dozen ordinary engineers who knew only the basics to fool Xie Jianyong...

But it is even harder to find high-end talents such as technical backbones and even project leaders...

Finally, an old friend who worked in a large human resources company joked with him, saying that your company does have the high-end talents it needs. Anhua's Warwick Company has a smart phone project team. If you pack up their entire project team, your requirements will almost be met... When Luo Yinian heard this, he was so embarrassed that his toes were exposed!
Xie Jianyong listened to the well-dressed Luo Yinian talking and snorting, took out a cigarette box and handed him a cigarette: "If you are wronged outside, don't take it out on me!"

"Besides, I don't have any reason to lie to you about work. The personnel list I gave you three days ago wasn't anything special, and the technical requirements weren't high. If it weren't for Mr. Xu urging us to set up a smart phone R&D team as soon as possible, I would have thought that 100,000 yuan would be too expensive!"

"Boss Xu didn't give me an unlimited staffing and salary. How can I give everyone an annual salary of hundreds of thousands to build such a large team? I have to deduct a little here and there."

"And this 985 yuan annual salary is not a small amount. You have to know that those fresh graduates from the computer science departments of the bottom-tier universities who join the Internet giants only get a starting salary of to yuan!"

"I paid according to the standards of those big factories. It's not too low, right?"

Luo Yinian was speechless: "You also know that they are fresh graduates... and they are starting salaries. Look at the requirements you listed. Is that a job that a fresh graduate with a basic starting salary can do? My old friend in HR told me that the five or six technical positions you requested must at least have a master's degree from a first-tier 985 university, and must have worked in a large company for three or four years and led a project before!"

"You said that a person like this, 100,000 yuan can't fight you!"

Xie Jianyong was furious: "I've already said that I didn't raise any high requirements, just basic requirements. If you don't have this ability, you can't do this job!"

"And it's not that difficult. Several of my team leaders are now basically capable, and a few of the backbones with good performance are also almost capable now. Do you think they are worth hundreds of thousands?"

"Why don't you say I'm worth a million dollars a year?"

"That's bullshit!"

At this point, Luo Yinian felt that he could no longer communicate: "Okay, let's not talk too much. I'm just telling you that people in the smart phone field are very expensive now. Not only are they expensive, but there are not many of them either. Don't even think about digging for ready-made ones!"

"Why don't you lower your requirements? Look, the dozen or so people I found for you are doing a good job now. They are cheap and affordable. Most of them only make four or five thousand yuan, and the most expensive ones are only six or seven thousand yuan!"

"I guess it's because the smartphone market is so hot right now that talent is being priced at a premium."

"Besides, there are too few experienced people. Even if you pay enough money, it's hard to find them!"

"You just said that these technical requirements are relatively simple and quick to learn. Since the people under you are able to learn, I will find you a group of people with better foundation, better learning ability, and the ability to stay up late. Wouldn't it be better for you to train them yourself later?"

Xie Jianyong thought about it for a while, then nodded and said, "Well, it's better to have someone who is not as good as you think. But you have to find someone who has a good foundation, a flexible mind and is hardworking. Otherwise, it will be hard to teach him!"

"Also, you have to help me keep an eye on those truly high-end talents. Since the market price is high now, you should pay them according to the market price. At least there should be a few project leaders to lead the work!"

After hearing this, Luo Yinian immediately put out his cigarette butt and said, "Okay, I've been waiting for your words. Those who have already become talents are hard to find, but I can definitely get you a lot of good seedlings and those who are half-baked."

"As for those project leaders, as long as you can spare some salary, I will get you a few!"

"I haven't been in the human resources industry for so many years for nothing. This time I'm going to show you a few of my skills and let you know what a true human resources expert is!"

"Let's go. I have an appointment with an expert in Internet marketing. I need to have a cup of coffee with him to see if I can poach him. The e-commerce business in the marketing department is also in need of a marketing manager. The bald guy Lao Bai is urging me every day..."

"Nah, talents won't just fall from the sky when you shout for them. I can easily find a bunch of ordinary people for you, but I have to find and talk to these high-end talents one by one. It's useless to push them every day!"

Luo Yinian left cursing.

Xie Jianyong was left alone in the office. He picked up several talent demand forms that he had given to the Human Resources Department a few days ago, and looked through them with confusion on his face.

(End of this chapter)

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