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[Badboy Blue]

I just posted I'll be heading over to China in the next few weeks or so. But I noticed during my pain-staking job search that alot of the recruiters who offered me jobs were women.
I am very impartial to gives me a job, but a few asked alot of personal questions (I mean, not "how old are you?" or "are you married?", these are common in Korea), but questions like "What kind of woman do you like?" or " Do you think you will like Chinese girls?"

HUHHH???????...........

I mean, one woman tried to hook me up with a friend if I took her job and another sent a very "compromising" photo and wrote that she "hoped to meet me in China....".

I don't want to seem like I'm coy or niave or something, but when did personnel recruiting get mixed with dating services?
Are these common practices to lure men to work in China?

Besides, I talked to a guy who hooked me up with a cool position and gave me the best offer of all~~ free beer my first night in Beijing.

The moral of the story-

Women may come and go~
But good beer is forever

[Roger]

Yes, I would go for the beer too! Girls come and go. You won't need to be hooked up with them. Not that I recommend you look at your job as a great party! It won't be! I guess, these girls want a provider.

Actually, in my experience recruiters are fairly mixed, males to females. Why? Most of them are ex-teachers, even ex-FAO's. They found out they can milk the schools that want to hire a foreign national.

[lagerlout2006]

Just when you thought you heard it all. Agents do seem to be female but none have offered me dates or sent photos...A welcoming feast is not unusual..I love those spinning table dinners with a girl standing poised and ready to refill your glass every time you take a sip.(I wonder if I can have that at home.)

Didn't you almost come recently and then found a job in Seoul? Anyway if you miss Korea you can always get imports--at least where I am..Soju Hite beer those cans of tuna (better than the tuna here) juice drinks curry in a bag I think I even saw Korean gum...I don't Hite and it's pricey at that. Chinese beer--most of it is much better. My only complaint is the alcohol content is a bit low but you can't have everything.

[migo]

I'd go for the beer too. With my complete lack of experience in this area I'd be suspicious of what they were trying to hide with the sugar coating.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Bro's before ho's, I always say.

[Chris_Crossley]

Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum? Is that what you mean, Whiner and Diner? I did make the mistake once of saying to one of my former female students from my first school in China (near the end of a six-hour-long "lunch" at a popular joint for expats) that if I had not been - how shall I put it - "in my current relationship", we could have been a great couple.

Oh, dear! What a great mistake! Another was holding her hand as we were going to the bus stop, from where she would go back to her place and I would go to another bus stop to go to mine! I have never so much as seen, or else heard from, her again after that night! Whoops! Still, at least I knew I had blundered and never attempted to contact her in any way. Besides, the person, with whom I am still (thankfully!) "in a relationship", would not have liked it! And NO, I was NOT looking for a "quickie" or anything illicit - I'm not that kind of guy, OK?!

As for my tipple, I guess that the occasional Bud is good enough for me. (Goodness knows, I even taught a class of Bud people at their place for a few months, but confusion on my last evening there meant that I never got the free samples promised - rats!) In the meantime, I drowned my sorrows with some good old hot coffee!