I agree HC. I'm also circulating his CV as he comes from the industry I'm connected with - and I'm also going to give him a list of agencies to approach.
On paper, he looks good. I, too, wonder how much work he's put into marketing himself.
Maybe some good can come out of his time here
Bryant, for a 50-100k investment and easy 20k monthly return, I'm sure we'd all like to hear of these start up businesses
I'd like to thank everyone who has given me advice. It means a lot to have this online community of expats who have gone through what I am going through. I owe it to all of you and GeoExpat.
I'm going to continue my search of jobs, business opportunities or do some volunteering and hope to catch up with you sometime on here.
Be persistent and patient. Take the advice you've been given, evaluate careful and apply it wisely.
Offer anyone who shows interest (eg: me, Fiona, Bryan and others that may come along) a free beverage or 2 in turn for some of their time so that you can pick their brains and get more insight as well as introductions to others; in other words: network, Network, NETWORK and sell&market yourself far and wide.
I know about the one big association in your industry. Have you joined it? Have you attended their luncheons and gettogethers to make new contacts? If not, then start immediately as most decent jobs in Hong Kong are never advertised.
Good luck.
@Fiona if you fancy unloading containers at HACTL at 2am or assembling furniture or lugging washing machines up 6 flights of narrow stairs in summer then let me know, I'll pm you ;-)
Aaaaah OK. Well, you need to get pounding the streets (virtually and actually). I shall email you with some information later, you need to get out there and target people you would like to work for. Time and effort will be repaid.
Show some initiative, too. It won't just come to you L, you have to go and work at it. Agencies, targetted employers, etc.
The association that I referred to has a HKG based website that lists all of their 2011 membership. If you havent already sent your resume to every single one of them, if you havent visited them all, then you havent finished searching and should not be considering manual labour just yet.