China to Job-Seeking C.E.O.’s: Come Work for China

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China to Job-Seeking C.E.O.’s: Come Work for China
By MICHAEL WINES


BEIJING — China’s government ran an enormous help-wanted advertisement on Monday seeking professional managers for some of its biggest state-controlled companies, a novel but not unprecedented move that apparently reflected unhappiness with the companies’ current performance.

The advertisement, two broadsheet-newspaper pages of small type, sought applicants for 20 senior management jobs in industries such as nuclear power, automaking and textiles. While some of the positions were restricted to Chinese nationals, many of the posts were open to foreign applicants, and several required proficiency in foreign languages like English and French.

The advertisements were placed by the Chinese Communist Party’s central organization department and the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the high-level government body that oversees the operations of China’s 129 biggest state-controlled corporations. They appeared in major Chinese and English-language newspapers, including the Communist Party-organ The People’s Daily, and on most major Internet portals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/world/asia/31hire.html?_r=1&ref=global-home