The Job Hunt – It's Business Time! Investor Relations, Embassy Jobs, Foreign Consultant

Who wants to spend their Beijing days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see again? As our beloved reader, you should know that you don't have to submit yourself to such an unbearable life of sadness. Instead, take a look below at the best of our job classifieds.

Investor Relations Associate for ICR
For those English teachers looking to use that English degree while transitioning into a more "real" or "grown-up" job: ICR, describing itself as "one of the most highly-regarded strategic communications firms," is seeking a native English speaker to fill an investor relations associate position in its Beijing office. Your clients will be involved in a broad range of Chinese industries, including technology, consumer goods, and healthcare. The right candidate native English speaker with a Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications or another writing-intensive major. We can't really vouch for the office's or the position's legitimacy, but we will point out that ICR appears to have offices all over the world, meaning you could still potentially use your English degree to travel the world without singing "I'm a Little Teapot" on a daily basis.

Foreigner Consultant in Hospitality Management
I love and hate these kinds of jobs, the ones for which you only really need to look a certain way. On the one hand, it's ethically shaky, but on the other hand, RMB 30,000 each month is nothing to sneeze at. At least it seems you will be required to do actual work for this position: coordinating business deals and marketing campaigns, offering an "international" perspective to your (we assume) Chinese coworkers, and attending local hospitality events to represent your brand. But the job's requirements are more or less solely focused on your look: must be a US, UK, Australia, or New Zealand-native MALE ONLY, 35-45 years old with a "good image." No degree and no experience? No problem! Hospitality's is, at its core, all about people skills anyway, and you can't get a degree in people skills.

Commercial and Administrative Assistant at the Namibian Embassy
I'm going to throw these guys a bone because their posts on our classifieds are approaching desperation levels in their frequency. Someone, please, go help the Namibian embassy with "strengthening bilateral and economic relations ... through the promotion of trade partnerships and tourism ... while attracting Chinese foreign investment to Namibia." They're looking for a native Chinese-speaker, preferably with a degree in economics and "five years of experience in a Chinese enterprise." It could be a good way to break into the international diplomacy scene. It also could be totally fascinating to play a part in China and Africa's growing economic ties. It could also be terrible, but we never know that until it's too late, do we?

Content Operation Manager for webcomics site
One for the nerds: someone out there is seeking a "creative and visionary operation manager who ... is passionate about comics and text translation." It seems like an online community dedicated to creating "comics of any theme, language, and length," which you and your team will then be responsible for translating into other languages. Bringing the world together through the simple and universally relatable medium of comics – what could be more rewarding? The job seems heavy on the community-management side: you need to grow and maintain your user base and "make the community more lively." It's also very business development-oriented. The right candidate has a bachelor's degree (no particular field indicated) and is "familiar with the Internet field, product development, management, and operation processes," with strong data and business analysis ability and communication skills. Familiarity with webcomics and online novels, or experience with translating webcomics or online novels, is preferred.

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