Through case studies, this seminar analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese professional managers during the interview process and how to address them.

Case Study 1: Coaching Management Trainees Participating in Western Corporate Recruitment Processes

Advantages During Selection:

– Strengths at various stages of the selection process.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Several Generations of Chinese Immigrants During the Recruitment Process:

– Potential implicit biases that may prevent final selection.

– How to address these biases?

Areas for Improvement for Chinese Students During University:

– Key areas where Chinese students need to improve to be more competitive in the job market.

Case Study 2: The Interview Journey of Chinese Accounting Managers and Tax Managers, and Areas for Improvement for Chinese Professionals Climbing to Mid-Level Management:

Obvious Strengths and Weaknesses of Chinese Technical Talent:

– How to quickly establish relationships with senior interviewers and leave a positive impression.

– Limiting beliefs that hinder Chinese technical talent.

– How to overcome these limitations and expand potential.

Sharing of Joint Research Report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Columbia University Business School:

– The report highlights the underrepresentation of Chinese professionals in mid-to-senior levels in Western companies, significantly lower than South Asian immigrants.

– The underlying reasons for this disparity and how it relates to challenges faced during interviews.

– Strategies to address these challenges.

Featured Speakers

Vivian Li

Head of HR, People and Culture for North Horizon Holdings 

Vivian has 20 years of experience in HR and her areas of expertise include recruitment, diversity and inclusion, performance management, succession planning, leadership development, HR technology and data analytics, employee engagement, training and development, contractor management, etc.

Vivian is currently the Head of HR, People and Culture for North Horizon Holdings, a Toronto-based investment firm. Vivian oversees all areas of HR practices for the firm to ensure the firm’s people strategy effectively supports its business development needs. Vivian and her colleagues thrive to build a culture in North Horizon that combines the best of East and West that empowers everyone to reach their highest potential.

Prior to this, Vivian was the Senior Manager of Inclusive Recruitment in RBC. In this role, Vivian designed and delivered an enterprise-wide global inclusive recruitment strategy to help RBC build its competitive edge through attracting and attaining an inclusive workforce, with a special focus on talent from diverse communities. Internally, Vivian worked closely with business and HR leaders to empower and drive change; externally, Vivian created an employer branding strategy and go-to-market campaigns to promote RBC as the employer of choice for diverse candidates.

Being an immigrant herself, Vivian understands the journey newcomers have to go through to build a new career and a new life here in Canada and has been a passionate volunteer in supporting newcomers in their job search for many years. Vivian has mentored many job seekers from diverse communities in their effort to build a successful career in Canada and has provided over 50 workshops on job searching and career development.

Founder, CCG Learning and Coaching Services

Head of Coaching, WeWorkingWomen

ICF Professionally Certified Coach PCC  

Affectionately known to the WeWorkingWomen community as Coach Ping, Lingping Li is a professionally-trained Career Development and Leadership Coach with over 20 years of managerial experience at multinational corporations.

Holding a bachelor’s degree from Beijing Language and Culture University and an MBA from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, she launched her career at multinational corporations in China, and quickly ascended the corporate ladder in one of the most competitive job markets in the world. Over the course of her 20 years of corporate career, Coach Ping has held senior-level managerial positions at companies including the Coca-Cola Company as the Director of Government Affairs, Kraft Foods as the Director of Corporate and Government Affairs, and Eli Lilly and Company, all of which were deeply engaged in the China market.

After immigrating to Canada in 2016, she established CCG Learning and Coaching Services. She became an ICF professional certified coach (PCC), an Erickson-certified coach, a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, and a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Facilitator (trained). At CCG, Coach Ping applies her management experience and deep understanding of Chinese and immigrant culture in Canada, to support both corporate and individual clients with career development and transitions, performance and change management, and leadership development.

As WeWorkingWomen’s Head of Coaching, Lingping leads key educational and training programs on North America’s largest community platform for overseas Chinese women.

Event Information

Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024

Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET (registration starts at 1:15 pm)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm presentation & QA;

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm networking

Session Format: In person

Location: Toronto Public Library – North York Central (5120 Yonge St., North York, ON, M2N 5N9) Room 101

Dress code: Business Casual

Language: English

CPD credit: 1.50 hours

Cost: Member: $15, Non-member: $30

Maximum space: 50 people

Registration Deadline: August 10, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET

Active participation is mandatory for receiving the CPD certificate.