I do not think it is the future of job boards in America, but it is an interesting site. If you think you have it bad now with Internet ads disrupting your surfing enjoyment, take a peak at what 80 million visitors are treated to each day. This is certainly one of the most wild things I have seen and I am genuinely curious to know why things are done this way. Maybe there are multiple uses for it. If not, there could be. I am fairly confident it could be used in place of light therapy to treat depression. As I stare in amazement, I certainly feel my nerve cells firing away in synaptic heaven. I am even considering printing it out and hanging it on my Christmas tree. I just need to figure out some way to plug it in.
The interesting thing for me is that when I first glanced at it, it struck me as oddly familiar. And then it hit me that I have seen this kind of thing before. The city streets in these areas have a similar look and feel. Bright signs, blinking, colorful, and obnoxiously busy. I guess in a strange way, it has a supercharged New York Times Square feel to it. Jam a few million more people into Manhattan and I think we are almost there.
My curiosity got to me and I did a little bit of digging around and could not find anything on the topic, but there must be some information available as to why it is done like this. Ultimately, in my uneducated opinion on the matter, I believe there may be a mentality the people have there of feeling like a tiny grain of sugar in a giant pie, and that this spills over into business advertising. There is possibly a strong underlying feeling of going unnoticed, or unheard, so blinking and bright may seem like the only logical way to try and stand out. I do not know.
So have you figured out the source of what we are talking about? Yep, China. You would have to expect that with all of the hiring taking place in China these days, they must have job boards too. I believe I stumbled across the granddaddy of them all, and they are even a NASDAQ traded company. I have always been curious about how a non-U.S. based company can be traded on an American stock exchange. I guess that is a topic for another day.
Regardless of your thoughts on American jobs being exported so cheap goods can be imported, it cannot hurt to understand a little about how others do things, so we either do not make the same mistakes or so we can take a potentially good idea and turn it into a great one, as we have been known to do. As I think about it, I cannot off of the top of my head think of any product that was conceptualized, developed, produced, and imported into the United States. There must be something, but nothing comes to mind. It is amazing to me what can be accomplished when free people are incentivized.
You will not find a bigger proponent of capitalism, business, free trade, and expanding markets for goods than yours truly. That is, when it is truly free, fair, and balanced. Some might argue it is hard to compete fairly when the average person in some of these countries is earning less than a few thousand dollars, annually. The topic of trade is too complex for any meaningful discussion here, so we won't go there. Do not worry too much about it though. What some other country is doing does not have to factor in to you obtaining great heights. Just work around it and focus on what you want, not what you don't want or don't like.
Call me radical, but I work under the idea that businesses create jobs, when not burdened by taxes, controls, and regulations, and that governments do not. For every misguided person you hear these days who says our system does not work, keep in mind that we have never experienced true laissez faire capitalism. Uncle Sam has mixed itself into ever aspect of business, industry, and the economy, and it seems to be getting worse with them now owning car companies, finance companies, banks, etc. I cannot think about it too long because I am afraid I will set off the fire alarm from smoke pouring from my ears. It has been said, and proven, that the degree of government involvement in any industry or business will be in direct proportion to its ultimate failure. It does not take much historical research to see that this is very accurate.
Okay, sorry for the digression. Here it is. Get your sunglasses ready. The most popular job board in China is... You know, I kind of think it is somewhat pretty in a strange sort of way. Let me know what you think. www.51job.com
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