Chapter 315: Recruiting via a Dating Website

After finishing lunch, Yao Xia and Song Qiming continued back to Xinghui Financial Company to work, while Chen Yang went to the Old Hundreds Agricultural Products Trading Company.

The advantage of both companies being in the same building is convenience; if anything urgent comes up, it's just a matter of taking the elevator.

Chen Yang went to Shen Anna's office and found her intently tinkering with the computer, the boxed lunch on her desk only half-eaten.

He leaned in to look and saw Shen Anna chatting with someone on the Love at First Sight website.

"Anna sis, have you figured it out? Are you getting ready to find another one?"

"What are you thinking about? I'm recruiting talent for the company." Shen Anna gave him a sideways glance, pointing at the person she was chatting with and said: "This Tianshan Old Demon is a computer engineering PhD who returned from studying in the Beautiful Country, skilled in software development. Poaching him would further strengthen our e-commerce platform's technical strength."

Chen Yang was a bit dumbfounded. He never expected Shen Anna to actually use the dating website as a talent recruitment site.

The key is, even he thought this method was pretty good. Senior white-collar workers registered on the Love at First Sight site, in order to quickly win the opposite sex's favor, usually write out their best qualities.

And Shen Anna has backend privileges, allowing her to directly pick out the elite talent she needs. Then she can communicate via the platform's chat system to verify the other party's information. As long as the person truly is the talent the company needs, she can arrange a face-to-face meeting and offer a generous salary; the effect will definitely be stronger than waiting passively in the talent market.

However, Chen Yang still felt Shen Anna's behavior was a bit risky. He reminded her: "Anna sis, the other party is here for dating, not looking for a job. You lure them to the company and then don't talk about a relationship—aren't you afraid they'll get angry and hack our company's internal system?"

Shen Anna said proudly: "I have his detailed information and home address here. If he dares to cause trouble, I'll just call the police and have him arrested."

Chen Yang felt this was improper. "Anna sis, using the pretense of dating to trick someone into coming to work at the company is inherently fraudulent. Even if it escalates to the police station, we'd be in the wrong first!"

Shen Anna looked at Chen Yang and said: "If this method doesn't work, is there any better way?"

Chen Yang thought for a moment and said: "There is a way. First, you could talk to him; if you get along, you both gain talent. If not, then each goes his own way."

Shen Anna immediately rejected Chen Yang's first suggestion: "No, work is work, feelings are feelings; I don't like mixing work and feelings together."

Seeing Shen Anna didn't want to give up her single status, Chen Yang continued: "The second method is to match a woman who meets the partner's dating requirements according to their criteria. We'll first poach that woman, then use a beauty scheme to slowly coax the other party over."

"This method won't work." Shen Anna again rejected Chen Yang's suggestion, and sternly told him: "What if they date for a while and discover they're unsuitable? Seeing each other at work with heads up and heads down would only be more awkward. If things go badly, both might end up leaving, and we'd have wasted our effort."

Chen Yang lowered his head to think for a moment, then immediately had a new idea. He told Shen Anna: "Why not arrange the woman to work at Yexin's company? Then the two companies could regularly hold team-building activities, giving them a chance to interact. That way, even if the romance doesn't work out, it won't interfere with work."

"Good, very good!" Shen Anna immediately called Yexin over and then conveyed Chen Yang's idea to her.

Yexin angrily punched Chen Yang directly. She snarled: "You little brat, do you want to turn my company into a garbage dump, stuffing anyone in there? I tell you, I disagree!"

Chen Yang said: "Yexin sis, Xinghui Company's Love at First Sight dating site inherently needs good-looking, well-mannered staff as image ambassadors. Moreover, the TV station's dating show also needs to recruit a few handsome guests to boost ratings. Even without the Old Hundreds Trading Company's talent plan, we still need to hire people."

Yexin waved her hand and said: "The guests for the TV station's dating show have already been agreed to be selected from the members; there's no need to specially recruit people."

Chen Yang explained to her: "Choosing people from the members involves too many uncontrollable factors. If they are our own company's people, we can plan the storyline in advance to maximize the show's effect."

Yexin, upon hearing this, fell into deep thought.

Chen Yang continued to work on her thoughts: "Yexin sis, the benefits of the Love at First Sight dating show and the website are tied together. To boost the website's popularity, we must guarantee the show's quality. To guarantee quality, we need to spend money to carefully package the guests. If this cost is spent on our own company's employees, it can create lasting value for the company. If spent on outsiders, even if effective, it's only one-time. After the show, it's nothing to do with us."

Yexin felt Chen Yang's words made a little sense. However, she clearly understood that Chen Yang's ultimate goal was still to act as a matchmaker for Shen Anna's talent-scouting plan. If mishandled, these guests of hers, just packaged and not yet appeared on TV, would be snatched away by the red thread.

"Putting the person at Xinghui Company isn't impossible, but if they're eventually taken away by your company's people, all the expenses must be borne by your company."

Chen Yang immediately nodded in agreement.

"Yexin sis, rest assured, if that really happens, our company will definitely take responsibility."

Yexin fiercely kicked Chen Yang and shouted angrily: "You little brat, always coming up with bad ideas. I had you find a match for Anna, you ran around in circles, and ended up just making a wedding dress for someone else. Can't you show a bit more concern for Anna?"

Chen Yang immediately protested: "Yexin sis, don't I care enough about Anna sis? Her food, clothing, housing, and usage are all top-notch. All that's left is to hire two personal bodyguards for her. As for feelings, if she doesn't agree, I really can't do anything."

Yexin helplessly sighed, then turned her gaze to Shen Anna, speaking earnestly: "Anna, you're about to be thirty-three; if you don't find a partner soon, you'll only end up as a stepmother. Look at those stepmothers on TV—how many have a good ending? In old age they're all lonely and miserable, with no one to say a comforting word."

Shen Anna was utterly unmoved, instead smiling and saying to Shen Anna: "I'm doing fine now; there's no need to think about decades ahead. Besides, you two married people—one is often suspected by his wife of cheating, the other rarely sees her husband due to frequent separations—I don't feel very happy either!"

Chen Yang and Yexin, upon hearing this, both fell silent.