3 Min Video: What tech skills are needed in Asia? How do people find jobs?

Categories: Asia, Interview, VideoPosted on October 25th, 2007

I interviewed Maneck Mohan (who works for Recruit.net, an Asian job aggregator) to find out what skills are needed for the technology industry, his perspective, from Asia and specifically Hong Kong. Are you surprised by his answer? I’m not. How do people find jobs, and what would be more efficient?

I know I’m a rare case, but I’ve got my two last jobs primarily from blogging. Social media impacts the recruiting process, I saw a stat that indicates that 35% of all employers do an online search about their candidates. I know I do and encourage everyone else to “Google them” and see what comes up. You can learn a lot (aside from the personal stuff), how do they think, how do they write, how do they interact with others, how do they self-represent themselves and their employer.

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Comments

Mike Hall

After reading this string, I can see I didn't do enough blogging while employed in Hong Kong. I really didn't think about it, but now I do a fair amount since I started my own company.

Damon Billian

I think recruit.net has done a very solid job at developing their site fairly rapidly (I followed them at SimplyHired.com).

In general, however, I think a lot of emphasis by employers in Asia is on "hard skills" from a resume (education).

jeremiah_owyang

Thanks Angus, it's going well, very well!

Angus Lau

Jeremiah,

Great pieces on your Hong Kong visit! Enjoyed going through all the interviews you did with the individuals here.

How's Forrester so far?

jeremiah_owyang

Yup both good and bad.

Regarding content in comments, I don't think Google scans my comments, but you never know.

Marius Ciortea

I guess I need to make sure that people add my last name on blogs. Maybe being mentioned on blogs can help my carrier at some point.

jeremiah_owyang

Dan

Good points. Also on the flip side, the recruiter uses Google to find candidates.

So why aren't professionals using these tools?