An HSBC survey last year ranked China as the world’s best place for expatriates to live and work, beating out heavy-hitters Germany and Singapore as the land of opportunity for expats. True or not, the Chinese job market for foreigners can be both a series of success stories or dead-end positions with little or no career growth.

The scam job offers will come, or no job offers will come. The endless need of stamps stamped and taxes taxed are facepalm-worthy enough to convince any erstwhile young, ambitous, global citizen to pack up and leave.

To help us navigate through the labyrinth of what’s true and too good to be true in the Chinese job market are two experts in the human resources field: Martin Thorley, a partner at Foreign HR, a recruiter for foreign professionals in China, and Abe Sorock, a partner at ATLAS-China, a staffing solutions platform for international talent.

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Links:

Josh Chin and Carlos Tejada (Wall Street Journal) – China’s Top for Expats (When You Don’t Count the Pollution)

Jonathan Levine (New York Times) – Go East Young Man

ATLAS-China blog

All About Visas – A China Hang-up podcast about getting that precious visa to stay and work in China​.