Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Job openings in China for fair-faced foreigners

From CNN:
For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.
Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."
Remember that signals are valuable only if they are difficult to mimic. In this case,the ability to mimic the signal should mean that its value as a signal will soon disappear.
...Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner.

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