Drawing from job advertisements, interviews with in-house recruiters, and participant observations, Ren offers an in-depth exploration of how elite professional service firms recruit graduates in China.
This book opens the "black box" of graduate hiring processes from a demand-side perspective, offering a rare look at Chinese recruiters' perception of talent, evaluative practices, and decision-making. It showcases the hiring activities that Chinese employers deploy to capture a homogeneous group of new hires based on cost-effective and rationalized criteria, thereby reinforcing local management and perpetuating the existing sociocultural order within elite firms. Grounded in rich empirical data, the text provides a comprehensive examination of the dynamics behind elite hiring and the local operation of elite professional service firms in transitional China.
The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students in sociology, China studies, business, and human resources management, as well as professionals navigating the unique complexities of hiring and talent management in professional service sectors in China.
| ISBN: | 9781032973876 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2025 |
| Author: | Ran Ren |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Sociology |
| Genres: |
Personnel and human resources management Organizational theory and behaviour |
Drawing from job advertisements, interviews with in-house recruiters, and participant observations, Ren offers an in-depth exploration of how elite professional service firms recruit graduates in China.
This book opens the "black box" of graduate hiring processes from a demand-side perspective, offering a rare look at Chinese recruiters' perception of talent, evaluative practices, and decision-making. It showcases the hiring activities that Chinese employers deploy to capture a homogeneous group of new hires based on cost-effective and rationalized criteria, thereby reinforcing local management and perpetuating the existing sociocultural order within elite firms. Grounded in rich empirical data, the text provides a comprehensive examination of the dynamics behind elite hiring and the local operation of elite professional service firms in transitional China.
The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students in sociology, China studies, business, and human resources management, as well as professionals navigating the unique complexities of hiring and talent management in professional service sectors in China.
Trawling Talent features in the following genres: Sociology: work and labour, Moral and social purpose of education, Regional / International studies, Social and ethical issues, Business and Management
Trawling Talent is available in Hardback
Trawling Talent was written by Ran Ren and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Trawling Talent has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Sociology series
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