Chapter 321 - Boss Pei, I’m Your Fan! (1/2)
November 6th, Saturday…
Pei Qian lay back in his office chair, listlessly scanning the resumes sent by applicants to the office’s email inbox.
At the moment, the HR department was still anxiously preparing the entrance examinations and related materials. Since that was a relatively complicated task involving many stages, Pei Qian guessed that they would not make headway anytime soon.
Having free time on his hands, Pei Qian accessed the recruitment email inbox and tried to find gold. He wanted to see if he could pick a suitable right-hand man from among the applicants, whom he would be able to make use of However, after spending a long time searching, Pei Qian found no one satisfactory.
The resumes were all too well done!
He did not know if these people wrote their own resumes or paid someone online to write them on their behalf.
It seemed that everyone badly wanted a job at Tengda. However, this was making it harder for Boss Pei to shortlist suitable applicants.
Would Boss Pei dare to accept applicants with beautiful resumes?
“Forget it. It’s ridiculous trying to recruit someone on my own. I’d better wait for the ‘slacker selection process’ to be ready.”
Pei Qian really needed to hire help. He had not even managed to find anyone to act as Vice President for the cell phone business.
Although Lin Wan was in charge of the cell phone business as well, she was only supposed to be an overseer. At most, she could only be put in charge of a portion of the work. Someone had to share the load with her.
Of course, to put it bluntly, that person had to check Lin Wan’s power and slow her down.
Pei Qian was afraid that Lin Wan would turn out extremely capable. If both the next game and the cell phone business succeeded, Pei Qian would be in deep trouble.
Yet, he could not find anyone suitable to act as Lin Wan’s Vice President.
Pei Qian had wanted to look for someone among the applicants, but on further thought, he realized that Tengda did not have a cell phone business yet. Naturally, very few talents from that industry sent in their resumes.
If Pei Qian hired a layman, his intentions would be too obvious. Lin Wan might get suspicious, and Pei Qian would have a much harder time persuading her to go home and take over her family business.
Thus, he had to find someone with a satisfactory resume.
Pei Qian pondered for a moment and thought about searching on Qiandu. He typed in the keywords ‘cell phone’ and ‘bankrupt’.
As he scanned the results, a particular news article caught his attention.
‘Hongcheng Technologies goes insolvent: In less than one month, it accumulated debts of about 130 million yuan.’
“According to the latest news, Hongcheng Technologies’ operating entity, Hongcheng Technologies Co. Ltd. has been named a judgment debtor for a debt of about…
“According to reports, Hongcheng Technologies’ total liabilities added up to more than eight billion yuan. How did a company that had made 174 million yuan just a year ago suddenly collapse? In an interview, its founder revealed that the direct cause was a rupture in the capital chain. The root problem was that the company had been incurring losses for a long time.
“However, the former Vice President of Hongcheng Technologies, Chang You, seemed to express a different opinion about this online. He thought that Hongcheng Technologies had failed because the company had been too short-sighted. This later led to Chang You being heavily criticized online. Many netizens thought that Chang You had been the one who made wrong decisions, bit off more than he could chew, and caused the collapse of Hongcheng Technologies. “It is worth noting that from August 13th to this day, Hongcheng Technologies has defaulted four times and has accumulated debts of about 130 million yuan…”
Pei Qian could not help but feel envious.
They owed at least a hundred million yuan!
If I lost that much…
In any case, there must have been a hidden talent in Hongcheng Technologies! It was either the founder or the Vice President. After all, both of them tried to shift the blame to the other. Obviously, one of them was very problematic.
Pei Qian researched more about Hongcheng Technologies and discovered that the company was quite a reputable cell phone manufacturer in the country. Of course, they also ventured into industries other than the cell phone one. At the start of the year before, the company announced that it had made over a hundred million yuan.
Another year passed, and they collapsed just like that.
Pei Qian looked for more information on Hongcheng Technologies’ Vice President, Chang You. At once, his eyes lit up.
Chang You became Vice President of Hongcheng Technologies a year ago and took charge of the cell phone business. A year later, the perfectly good company collapsed! The more Pei Qian read, the more this high-profile individual was his dream employee! Chang You looked short and thin, but Pei Qian could almost feel the unlimited energy hidden inside his body!
Pei Qian made up his mind immediately. It was him!
Pei Qian would put him in charge of the new cell phone business. This was the talent he had tried so hard to find.
He quickly called Assistant Xin into his office. Assistant Xin entered and immediately updated Pei Qian on what he had asked her to do earlier.
“Boss Pei, you told me to look for an investment assistant earlier. I’ve already found one. If you have the time, you can meet him and see if you’re satisfied.”
Pei Qian pondered for a moment and said, “How about this? Tell him to go to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe’s Handong University branch in two hours. I’ll meet him there.”
“Also, help me to look for a way to contact Hongcheng Technologies’ former Vice President, Chang You. I want to meet him, too.”
Assistant Xin nodded. “Alright, I’ll do that.”
Assistant Xin was just about to turn around and leave when Pei Qian recalled a very important thing. He said, “Wait a minute. What’s the name of the investment consultant you found?”
Pei Qian was going to interview the man; it did not seem right that he still did not know his name.