Chinese companies are better employers

Chinese native firms have outnumbered foreign-invested companies for the first time in the annual election of the nation's best employers among university students.

Results of the election were released in the city yesterday.

ChinaHR.com, one of China's leading Web-based head-hunters, asked nearly 50,000 graduates in 656 domestic universities from last December until April about their attitude towards employment and employers.

Among the top 10 best employers this time, seven positions were taken by Chinese native companies.

The number of native firms accounted for half of the top 50 best employers.

Until now foreign-invested companies have dominated since the annual election began in 2003.

Lenovo China, which won the best-employer title last year, made it consecutive victories this year. It is followed by three other native companies, China Mobile, Haier Group and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.

P&G China, which is the highest-ranking foreign-invested employer, dropped two positions this year to fifth. IBM China and Microsoft China are the other two foreign-invested companies in the top 10.

Zhang Tingwen, director of ChinaHR's human resources research center, said that he was delighted by the results.

"Chinese native companies always left people an impression that they pay little attention to human resources management," Zhang said. "This result shows they are emphasizing employees' career growth and building their own employer brand."

Patrick Sullivan, staffing director of Microsoft China Research and Development Group, said that foreign companies are aware of rising pressure from Chinese native competitors.

"We are trying to make a larger investment in employees' development and help them to get great experience by working with world-level professionals," he said.

Training and development opportunities, brand impact and favorable salary and welfare packages were considered the three most important employer criteria by university graduates.

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