Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

When Li Feng heard what Director Zheng said, he was very surprised. It seemed like he had only left the factory for a month, and it was about to open for business.

Has the project progressed so quickly since I left?

This was hard for Li Feng to believe, and then he asked Director Zheng in surprise.

"Are all the personnel already there?"

Factory Director Zheng nodded directly to Li Feng.

"Special handling for special cases".

These few simple words, for some reason, made Li Feng feel deeply powerful.

Theoretically speaking, the personnel appointments and responsibilities should not be approved until at least the following year.

Generally speaking, recruitment can only begin after the approval process is completed.

Li Feng didn't know how Director Zheng had resolved the issue, but now that it was resolved, Li Feng had some ideas.

At this moment, Li Feng nodded to Director Zheng.

"Have you already recruited anyone?"

Factory Director Zheng shook his head and said this.

"The ordinary workers and administrative staff have been arranged; now we are missing technical personnel."

When Director Zheng got to this point, Li Feng already knew what Director Zheng meant.

At this moment, Li Feng nodded and said to Director Zheng.

"So, are you discussing the recruitment of talent in this area now?"

At this moment, Director Zheng nodded to Li Feng and said.

"That's right."

"Now we're here to discuss the issue of recruiting technical personnel," Director Zheng said. He then asked Li Feng to sit in an empty seat next to him, since there were quite a few middle and senior managers in Director Zheng's office at the moment.

After hearing what Director Zheng said, Li Feng nodded to him and then sat down in the crowd, as he didn't want anyone to waste their time because of him.

At this moment, several deputy factory directors and some heads of important departments nodded to Li Feng when they saw him, and Li Feng politely responded to each of them.

After seeing Li Feng sit down, Director Zheng coughed once, and then continued speaking to everyone.

"Let's get back to the main topic."

"We just got to the issue of talent recruitment. Deputy Factory Director Zhu suggested that our factory recruit talent from universities."

"But now, both Tsinghua University and Beijing University have already been booked by large institutions, so it's not easy for me to do anything about it."

Although Director Zheng really wanted to recruit talent from these two schools, unfortunately, the ceramics factory was simply too small a place to go, as most of them had already been reserved by large organizations. College students are in high demand these days, not to mention students from top universities, even those from ordinary universities have already been snatched up by local governments.

So Director Zheng was also worried about this matter, because students from good universities have no shortage of opportunities. In fact, it's not just a matter of not having a shortage of opportunities; there are simply not enough of these university students from Beijing to fill other companies' quotas. Even if he asked people from Tsinghua University for help, the ceramics factory was too small to retain its employees.

If it's a ministry or local government agency, then it's easier to handle.

Who can blame them? The ceramics factory is only a department-level unit. Moreover, the career advancement path is only average. Furthermore, Director Zheng knows that most college graduates in Beijing aspire to work for larger organizations.

If there were other options, who would choose to work for a small company? My classmates mostly chose to work for government departments or municipal departments; very few went to work for private companies.

Upon hearing Director Zheng's words, everyone began to consider countermeasures. The most important thing now was to avoid impacting the operation of the ceramics branch factory. The branch factory was about to begin operations, and if the technical and management personnel hadn't been finalized, it would also affect the main factory.

However, as everyone knows, the reason this problem occurred is because Director Zheng is incredibly efficient. Given time, these issues could definitely be resolved.

The leaders present didn't know much about the machinery industry. After all, ceramic factories didn't use machinery before; production was mostly done by hand.

Now that industrialization has begun, the operating model of branch factories is definitely different from before.

At this point, they couldn't think of any good solutions either, as it was truly a case of being completely unfamiliar with a different field.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have suggested calling Li Feng back, because Li Feng is the only person in the ceramics factory who understands machinery, and there was no other way.

At this moment, everyone turned their attention to Li Feng, and then Deputy Factory Director Zhu couldn't help but speak to Li Feng.

"Director Li, do you have any ideas?"

At this moment, everyone saw that Deputy Factory Director Zhu had asked about Li Feng, and they couldn't help but look at Li Feng. Even Factory Director Zheng looked at Li Feng and spoke to him.

"Director Li, you are also the head of the Mechanical Management Section. Do you have any suggestions on this matter?"

Li Feng never expected that Director Zheng's words would solidify his position as the head of the Mechanical Management Section.

No one present had any objections, since no one knew more about machinery than Li Feng. If they were to manage the Mechanical Management Department, it would be like going blind.

If anything goes wrong, then we'll have to take responsibility.

Therefore, they had no objection to Li Feng being appointed as the head of the Mechanical Management Department. After all, Li Feng was knowledgeable in this area. Moreover, he was still a student at Tsinghua University. More importantly, the production line of the branch factory was designed by Li Feng. Who else could be the head of the Mechanical Management Department if not Li Feng?

At this moment, Li Feng took a deep breath, and after thinking for a moment, he answered Director Zheng.

"If we are just bringing in some college students with mechanical expertise, I think there is no problem."

"Our current predicament is probably the relatively small number of students from Beijing."

"In other words, although we have relatively few students from Beijing, we have a lot of students from outside Beijing."

"If we recruit mechanical engineering students from universities in other cities, I think there will be no problem."

Li Feng's words opened up a new perspective for Factory Director Zheng. Initially, Factory Director Zheng had limited his focus to university students in Beijing, which was indeed possible if the students were from other regions.

When Director Zheng heard this, he couldn't help but nod to Li Feng.

"Um!".

That makes sense.

After hearing that Director Zheng had approved his idea, Li Feng continued speaking to Director Zheng.

“As long as we resolve their household registration issues, I think they would still be very willing to stay in Beijing.”

What Li Feng said is true; who wouldn't want to stay in Beijing?

If given the opportunity to stay in Beijing, college students from other places would definitely want to work in a ceramics factory.

After listening to Li Feng's words, everyone felt that they made a lot of sense. After all, what young person wouldn't want to go to a big city? Especially to become a cadre in a state-owned enterprise in Beijing, which is very tempting for young college students from other places.

Therefore, everyone agreed that Li Feng's words made a lot of sense. (End of Chapter)