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Li Juan, the head of the Human Resources Department, prepared the screened resumes a day in advance and placed them on Lin Feng's desk.

He is 45 years old this year and previously worked as the human resources director of He Qianwen's Tianlong Group for eight years. He was personally recruited by He Qianwen from the provincial capital.

With short hair, a square face, and silver-rimmed glasses, he speaks slowly and deliberately, but every sentence is well-organized. His gaze carries a habitual scrutiny, the kind of competence and composure that comes from years of experience in the human resources field.

The criteria for screening resumes this time are very clear. The business department is the most core department of Shuke in the next few years. The company's positioning is to bid for various projects and then subcontract them to its three parent companies. Whether it can break into the highly competitive Hehai City construction market depends entirely on the combat effectiveness of the business department.

Therefore, the hard requirements for this recruitment are at least two years of experience in engineering or government projects, with priority given to those who have independently developed client cases, and those with existing client resources will directly enter the final interview.

Lin Feng sat in the general manager's seat in the middle of the conference room, with Li Juan on his left and Lu Fei, the head of the business department, on his right.

Lu Fei officially joined the company last week. He is 36 years old and previously worked as a business director for several years at a medium-sized construction engineering company in Jiangbei Province. At his peak, he managed a business team of more than 20 people.

He wasn't tall, his skin was tanned, and he was wearing a dark blue Oxford shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. He liked to use gestures to help him express himself when he spoke, and he spoke very quickly but his thoughts were clear. He was obviously a hard worker who had worked his way up from the front lines of the business.

Li Juan recruited him through a headhunter, offering him significantly better terms than he had at his previous company. In addition, Shu Ke had the resources of three parent companies behind him, so Lu Fei agreed almost without hesitation.

A total of fifteen people passed the initial screening: four women and eleven men.

Li Juan arranged everyone's resumes in advance according to their numbers, and marked the parts of each resume with red pen that she thought needed to pay attention to, such as which area someone's client resources were concentrated in, what the reason for someone's leaving their previous job was, and whether someone's salary and benefits were within their budget.

Lin Feng flipped through the resumes and saw several people who had previously worked for large construction companies. Their resumes were impressive, but he also noticed that some of them had a high job-hopping frequency, changing companies almost every year or so. It was risky to use such people.

The interviews started at 9:30 and each person had about 15 minutes.

Lin Feng asked the interviewees to give a three-minute self-introduction first, then Lu Fei asked questions about their professional knowledge, Li Juan was responsible for asking follow-up questions about their work experience and reasons for leaving their previous jobs, while he mainly listened and observed the interviewees' speech, thinking logic and on-the-spot reactions.

Several interviewees left a deep impression on him. One of them, a man in his early thirties surnamed Zhao, had worked as a business manager for several years at a large construction company in the provincial capital. He had a solid track record of winning government projects and spoke calmly and deliberately.

When Lu Fei asked him for his opinion on the construction market in Hehai City, he said directly that the current engineering subcontracting market in Hehai City is still in a stage of unregulated growth.

The information asymmetry is severe. Clients can't find reliable construction companies, and construction companies can't find high-quality clients. If Shuke can do a good job of resource integration in the middle, it will have no problem becoming one of the top three in Hehai City within three years.

There was also a young woman surnamed Chen, who had just turned twenty-six. She used to work as a salesperson at a municipal engineering company in Hehai City. She had the contact information for several local government departments and spoke fluently about the bidding process for municipal projects.

The boss of the previous company ran away with the money, so she came out with her client resources to find a new client. This readily available government resource was exactly what Shuke needed.

Another person who impressed him was a man surnamed Sun, 35 years old, who had worked in the transportation system of Jiangbei Province for several years as a project coordinator before switching to a private company.

When introducing himself, he pulled out a list listing the network of contacts he had built up in the transportation system, from the Provincial Department of Transportation to the Hehai Municipal Transportation Bureau and then to the highway management stations in several districts and counties below, a densely packed list that filled more than half a page.

After reading the list, Lu Fei immediately took a picture of it and sent it to Lin Feng, adding the comment, "We need to take this person down."

After all fifteen people had been interviewed, it was already afternoon. Lin Feng asked Li Juan and Lu Fei to stay behind, and the three of them discussed the cases one by one in the conference room.

Li Juan provided a comprehensive evaluation of each candidate from a human resources perspective, including stability, career planning, salary expectations, and teamwork ability.

Lu Fei analyzed each person's actual capabilities, the authenticity of customer resources, and their conversion rate from a business perspective.

The three people compared the resumes and interview records one by one, and finally decided on ten positions, two of which were women.

One is the young woman surnamed Chen, who has local government resources; the other is someone who used to be a business manager at a landscaping company and has several landscape engineering cases for large-scale residential projects, which will be useful for Shuke's future landscaping projects for school district housing.

After the personnel were finalized, Li Juan organized the list of selected candidates and said that these people would be officially hired next week. The first week would be for pre-job training, which would be personally led by Lu Fei. The training content included the company's business scope, bidding process, customer communication skills, and the use of the company's internal project management system.

Lu Fei nodded in agreement, saying that he had already prepared the training plan. The first day would be about corporate culture, and the second day would be about practical training. He would use several typical cases he had accumulated to conduct group exercises.

Lin Feng leaned back in his chair and looked at Lu Fei.

He had been observing this person throughout the interview. Lu Fei's questions were very tricky; they weren't the textbook interview questions, but rather he directly presented real-world business scenarios for the interviewee to analyze.

For example, he might ask, "How do you get firsthand information about the bidding for the renovation project in the old city of Hehai?" or "How do you handle situations where the client owes more money than agreed in the contract, so as not to damage relationships and still get the money back?"

There is no standard answer to this kind of question, but you can directly judge from the other person's answer whether they have really worked on the front lines of the business.

Lin Feng trusted Lu Fei. He told Lu Fei that the business department was the core department of Shuke, and the company's future development depended entirely on the business department.

Lu Fei already has a preliminary plan.

The department is divided into two groups. One group is responsible for small, quick projects, such as municipal maintenance, landscaping, and small renovations, which can generate cash flow quickly and support the team.

Another group specializes in tackling highly challenging projects, namely large-scale bidding projects in cooperation with large enterprises and government departments. These projects are time-consuming and highly competitive, but once won, the profits are considerable, and benchmark cases can be accumulated.

The two groups have different focuses and different personnel configurations. The scattered group is composed of young people with strong execution and quick response, while the task force is composed of experienced salespeople with extensive networks.

"Come to me if you have any problems." Lin Feng stood up and patted Lu Fei on the shoulder.

Lu Fei closed his laptop, stood up, and shook hands with Lin Feng firmly, saying, "Don't worry, Mr. Lin, I will lead this team well and strive to deliver an impressive performance in the first quarter."

As Lin Feng reached the door, he suddenly remembered something, turned around and said to Li Juan, who was tidying up her resume, that he needed to hire another secretary for him. He was traveling between the two places and his schedule was getting busier and busier, so he needed someone to help him manage things.

Li Juan paused for a moment while looking at Lin Feng, her tone becoming somewhat cautious as she asked him what his gender requirements were.

Lin Feng thought for a moment and said, "Let's say a woman."

"Ability is paramount; the person needs to be quick-witted and able to handle unexpected situations." He thought for a moment, then added, "The rest can be chosen as you see fit, but at the very least, their physique and appearance can't be too..."

Then he pushed open the door and went out.

Li Juan watched Lin Feng's figure disappear at the end of the corridor, then lowered her head and wrote a line in her notebook. She underlined the word "secretary" and marked several keywords: clever, resilient, and with a good image and temperament.

He took off his glasses and rubbed his nose, thinking that although the job requirements seemed simple, it would be difficult to find the right person. Although Lin Feng did not say the specific requirements, it was definitely not enough for someone to be able to stay by the side of the chairman of Shuke Group with just a pretty face.

I closed my laptop, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed the number of the recruitment specialist.