This document summarizes a study on the impact of Chinese cultural values on job seeking and career planning behaviors. The authors conducted surveys and focus groups with career counselors who have experience working with Chinese immigrants. They investigated how cultural values like modesty, respect for authority, and harmony affect job search strategies. The study recommends tools and techniques for counselors, like assertiveness training and presenting transferable skills, to help Chinese immigrants overcome barriers from their cultural values.
1. Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons The impact of Chinese cultural values on job seeking and career planning Ronald Ma MSW RSW SUCCESS Training Institute Canada [email_address] Dr. Norman Amundson PhD University of British Columbia Canada [email_address] ___________________________________
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5. Selected Chinese cultural Values for investigation* Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons Questionnaire (1) * based on Kluckhohn and Strodbeck’s classification and framework of Chinese values
6. Question 1: Does this value still exist among your clients? Question 2: How does it affect their job searching behaviour/ strategy and career planning? Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons Questionnaire (2)
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15. Tools recommended Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons ____________________________________
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18. * The beginning relationship * The involvement of family and friends * Transferable Skills and Attitudes * Behavioral Rehearsal Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons
19. The beginning relationship * One eye on the person and the other on the cultural context * Mattering * Personal artifacts * Drawings * Questioning Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons
30. Thank You Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons Ronald Ma MSW RSW SUCCESS Training Institute Canada [email_address] Dr. Norman Amundson PhD University of British Columbia Canada [email_address] Contact:
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Being humble and self-denounce is always a virtue in the Chinese culture, but how can a person get job, if he tells his potential employer that he is no good. How can a job seeker, who is as fierce as dragon, but is always hiding; or as strong as a tiger, but always crouching, get a job? There is always a feeling among counsellors of Chinese clients that given the same qualification, modesty and humbleness put the job seeker in a disadvantaged position, and such candidate is always less competitive in a fierce job interview during which the employer makes hiring decision within the first few minutes. The design of the current job searching curriculum, derived mostly from western concepts, has to address these pitfalls and help to empower the job seeker.
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