Friday, December 27, 2013

Jobs for foreigners in China!!

Many of the foreigners want to move to china just for a thrill of living in other country.
But, those who don't have qualifications always fear about what kind of job they will do in China. well, there is no need to worry.

You don't have degree - never mind, no education - never mind, no skills- never mind!
You can still earn much more than local Chinese people provided you have "white face" (Not applicable for me :( 

China is a country where Face is more important than life itself, and for this "Face" chinese goes to great lengths. There are companies who enhance the value of this face hires foreigners for business events, meetings , product release etc.

Local people call it  "White Guy Window Dressing" or  "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."

Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So for this reason companies rent "foreigners" 

I read about a struggling American actor named - Jonathan Zatkin, who lives in Beijing, was asked to pose as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade.

The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be White. 2. Do not speak any Chinese 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.

Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of white-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials, or to secure a contract or simply to fulfill a claim of being international.

Ocasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner") on the online classified site thebeijinger.com.

Also, you can "Rent a Laowai" for filing police complaints in case you have lost something, as Police in China pays more attention to foreigners case.


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   An add to "Rent a Laowai" for reporting crimes

I remember meeting a Russian who hardly speaks any english and was working as a English teacher. I asked him how he got the job, he told that he was approached by a English teaching school in China and when he told them the truth that he doesn't speak much english, the recruiter replied "Don't worry, Nobody cares as long as you have White Face"

Now I wish so badly that god has given me white skin :).. or better I fly to Korea to get a plastic sugery to get white face...





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