Recruiting in China

Recruitment companies have increased their investments in China, according to a new study by the1, the M&A specialists for the human capital sector.

The study identified a cumulative total of 156 investments in China by 106 foreign recruitment or human capital groups over a 20-year period.
China as a whole, including deals made in Hong Kong, has seen a 70% boost in investments, from 40 transactions in the 1995-1999 period, to 68 in the post-2000 period.

Director Mark Dixon says: ¡°China is the human capital sector¡¯s number one opportunity long-term, with a population of 1.3 billion, you don¡¯t have to be a rocket scientist to do the maths. It¡¯s a numbers game, with some very big numbers.¡±

The growth was fastest (132%) for investments in Mainland China (58 post-2000 versus 25 in the prior period), the first empirical evidence that foreign human capital companies have stepped up their investment on the Mainland.