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Q: what kinds of jobs a foreigner can get in China besides teaching ?
I'm not interested in Teaching and besides im not a native english speaker.
I have college degree and have experience in working in office, customer service .
8 years 48 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
The questions you need to ask and answer are:
1. What type of jobs are you qualified for back home?
2. What is the advantage to a company here for hiring you over a local?
If you're starting from scratch and have no research done already...given your experience is in customer service I would approach this by looking at your country of origin (or other countries speaking the same language) and looking up trade data published by your country.
Find out what sectors represent the largest volume of trade between your home (or countries speaking your native language) and China. Then look into what companies in the area you want to live in deal in the export of that product. Let's say your country is Bulgaria and imports a lot of...electric gears from China. You should make a map of all the companies you can find around you that export electric gears.
Once you've found some target companies, write up a proposal for how you can help them. How having a native Bulgarian speaker will help them sell more product to more satisfied customers. Explain that because Chinese don't know what Chalga music is they can never understand how the mind of a true Bulgarian works when they purchase electric gears. Seriously...talk along those lines. You need to write the business case for hiring you.
Really if you want to be doing customer service in an office setting your best best is probably B2B sales, anything retail the value add isn't likely to be there.
Where are you from btw?
Hit 'Jobs' tab, top R of the screen, and see what else is advertised, beside English teaching.
Non-native English teacher in China can hold Working and Residence Permit, if you want to change your mind about English teaching.
All of the doors are open if you speak Chinese.
You can get into sales/purchasing. Find out what your home country buys/sells to/from China and target companies in that industry that need a native speaker of your language.
indeed.com is a better search tool for office jobs than this site.
The questions you need to ask and answer are:
1. What type of jobs are you qualified for back home?
2. What is the advantage to a company here for hiring you over a local?
If you're starting from scratch and have no research done already...given your experience is in customer service I would approach this by looking at your country of origin (or other countries speaking the same language) and looking up trade data published by your country.
Find out what sectors represent the largest volume of trade between your home (or countries speaking your native language) and China. Then look into what companies in the area you want to live in deal in the export of that product. Let's say your country is Bulgaria and imports a lot of...electric gears from China. You should make a map of all the companies you can find around you that export electric gears.
Once you've found some target companies, write up a proposal for how you can help them. How having a native Bulgarian speaker will help them sell more product to more satisfied customers. Explain that because Chinese don't know what Chalga music is they can never understand how the mind of a true Bulgarian works when they purchase electric gears. Seriously...talk along those lines. You need to write the business case for hiring you.
Really if you want to be doing customer service in an office setting your best best is probably B2B sales, anything retail the value add isn't likely to be there.
Where are you from btw?
Sing next to a book store and collecting gift money hahahha
You "have a college degree and have experience in working in office, customer service" .
How about office assistant or telemarketing or customer support ?
Ooops, but you do not speak Chinese, do you?
