Chapter 443: Only My Method Chapter 443: New City Xijiang (1)

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The Chen Group established the largest human resources company in Jiangning's history. Two headhunting firms with nearly a hundred people each were directly merged into the Chen Human Resources Company, along with the Group's original HR department and affiliated independent administrative, financial, legal, and other support members — the 8th floor of the Meijiang Building, capable of accommodating 1,000 people, was almost entirely filled.

The two headhunting firms belonged to two Jiangning Prince Party experts; they didn't actually make much money. Chen Yi made a small promise of two document approvals and a few public institution positions, plus a bit of cash, and achieved his goal.

At the same time, the management of other headhunting firms in Jiangning were tempted by salaries around 200% higher — compared to ordinary company staff, headhunters know their own actual value more clearly, so they are more easily poached at high prices; they were like prey delivering themselves to the door, selling themselves at the highest price, then helping the Chen Human Resources Company find new prey.

If headhunting firms had their own yearbook, the Chen Human Resources Company would certainly be printed on the first page.

A team of nearly a thousand people was assembled in just one week; if it weren't for a Prince Party figure like Chen Yi suppressing things, just the resistance from within the industry and the company would have left people at their wits' end.

Construction engineers, railway engineers, builders who had done similar work before — bankrupt companies across Jiangning were all on the headhunting firms' target lists, numbering close to 500,000, enough to make the newly established company immediately swamped with work.

The Martial Arts Hall students curiously observed the work on the 8th floor.

The early entrants to the Martial Arts Hall were, in the traditional sense, social failures — young people with no connection to white-collar work; the later students were younger, having only seen white-collar work on TV, especially the mysterious headhunters, which always aroused endless curiosity.

Similarly, the headhunters on the 8th floor were even more curious, especially when they saw in the company email's organizational structure section that the Human Resources Company was overseen by Su Yuanchun, head of the Martial Arts Hall Student Archives — their curiosity practically swelled to bursting through the floor.

If not for Inspection Team students on duty on every floor, who knows which headhunter might have sneaked in among them to do who-knows-what.

The Human Resources Company members cannot enter other floors, but that doesn't mean the students cannot enter the 8th floor.

Like sightseers, they surged toward the Human Resources Company one by one, in pairs, in groups; the Inspection Team members posing at the stairwell sometimes mixed in among them to satisfy their own curiosity.

The Human Resources Company's General Manager Qian Li persisted for three days, finally unable to bear the internal and external pressure, and had to go ask Su Yuanchun — whom he didn't want to see — saying: "The Martial Arts Hall students are too much; you have to manage them."

Su Yuanchun, who had just moved his temporary office to the 8th floor, smiled, set down his fountain pen, and said: "Tell me, what needs me to coordinate?"

The word "coordinate" was something Qian Li had repeatedly emphasized at their first meeting; he hoped to manage the Human Resources Company completely on his own, and didn't want the outsider Su Yuanchun pointing fingers — especially such a young outsider leader, which really made people feel too insecure.

Qian Li's embarrassment flashed by; the thick skin honed over ten years served as a shield, and he continued complaining without even a hint of red: "Students from other floors keep coming to the company to visit, ask questions, chat with staff — not that they can't visit, but we are a legitimate company after all; visits should be by appointment in advance, not disturbing staff's normal work is the bare minimum, and moreover, they even... even have people pestering female staff to treat them... you tell me."

"Any successful ones?" Su Yuanchun sat up at once, seemingly missing the point.

Qian Li nearly rolled his eyes, saying: "If this goes on, the company won't be able to operate; you have to persuade the Martial Arts Hall people to leave, and guarantee the safety of the company's office location."

Su Yuanchun knew this was the small gift package the Hall Master left for him to open the situation.

He nodded cleanly and said: "Understood. However, the matter of Martial Arts Hall students pursuing company female staff — I can't control that."

"As long as they don't pester people inside the company, I have no objection." Qian Li, seeing the matter resolved, laughed in a good mood: "Girls doing HR pick men like they pick companies; I'm really not worried about those students — when they can afford a house and a car, then they can pursue; not too late. Oh, best if they have a formal job too."

Su Yuanchun, just about to stand up, "pfft" laughed and sat back on the chair, saying: "Manager Qian, I reckon you've got it wrong — nowadays, Martial Arts Hall students who can't afford a car and a house are probably few; your little girls would have a hard time meeting even one."

"What do you mean?" The moment salary came up, Qian Li immediately stopped in his tracks.

"You count as a Martial Arts Hall peripheral senior executive now; you should know." Su Yuanchun paused, then smiled: "Let me explain the Martial Arts Hall's salary structure to you, and you'll understand."

The Group's salary structure is precisely the basic knowledge an HR manager must grasp; Qian Li immediately sat back down and said: "Go ahead."

"The Martial Arts Hall's salary now consists of two parts: one part is their rank salary — Level 1 students 3,000 yuan, Level 2 students 6,000 yuan, Level 3 students 12,000 yuan, up to Level 9 students, all in a doubling relationship."

Qian Li silently calculated, then said calmly: "Level 9 student annual salary 9 million yuan, plus bonuses — among domestic CEOs that's top-tier."

He thought student ranks were like company job grades.

Su Yuanchun didn't elaborate, just continued: "Besides rank salary, students' various evaluations determine their benefits — for example, auxiliary resources like Divine Tears Oil, cultivation time, dedicated Knight instruction time, all included."

"If measured by proportion, can benefits reach 10%?"

"If they can reach the average value, benefit value is 50% or more; higher is hard to say."

Qian Li was slightly surprised: "If not considering tax avoidance factors, high benefits seem a bit wasteful. Actually I think 30% benefits is already very generous. And more stimulating."

Su Yuanchun smiled and shook his head: "Students' benefits aren't ordinary material rewards; many can't be directly measured in cash. Actually, things like houses and cars — Level 6 students all get them as rewards."

"Level 6 counts as middle-to-senior management?" Qian Li naturally converted to his familiar frame of reference, asking: "How many Level 6 and above students are there?"

"Currently over 200."

"200? The Meijiang Building really is big; one day I should specially visit the Group's representative middle-level cadres; President Su, help introduce them sometime."

"Introduce Level 6 and above students?"

"Exactly."

"Then there they are." Su Yuanchun pursed his lips, looking through the frosted glass — a green-haired youth blocking the tea room was whistling.

Qian Li completely ignored the youth, asking blankly: "Who?"

"That little boy, 23rd batch student, one of the fastest cultivation speeds in the Martial Arts Hall; last month he reached Body Technique Level 6. By regulation, he already got a house, and he gets over 3 bottles of Divine Tears Oil per week, currently using all of it. Also, he's an Inspection Team member, earning an extra 100% duty salary monthly; by the way, duty salary is tied to rank but only given with a position. This part should also count in the second category; about 30% of people get it."

A Level 6 student's monthly salary is 100,000, equivalent to 1 million annual; double his duty salary, and a youth teasing mature women instantly becomes a promising young man with 2 million annual income.

"His salary is higher than mine!" Qian Li finally realized. His annual salary was said to be a million, but that was just nice-sounding; salary tax and various benefit subsidies all had to be counted in, and what actually reached his hand was less than 700,000 — only one-third of the other's.

Su Yuanchun patted Qian Li's shoulder comfortingly, smiling: "So I say, the Martial Arts Hall is the core; our HR department is just support — do it well, and getting Headquarters-level pay is easy too."

Qian Li's lips trembled; he really wanted to just leave, but he couldn't help asking: "I've hardly seen any middle-aged people; how long have these students been in the Martial Arts Hall?"

"No more than 2 years. The first 10 batches were even more formidable; by the way, I'm a 9th batch graduate, 21 years old this year. Martial Arts Hall student ranks are determined by Body Technique level, not position height — equivalent to a technical professional title." Su Yuanchun was one of the few low-level students still able to stay in the Martial Arts Hall; he could continue cultivating Body Technique, obtaining resources like Divine Tears Oil; other staff wanting to catch up to the increasingly genius new students would find it hard to return to the student ranks.

Qian Li was completely speechless, finally asking: "What's the Martial Arts Hall's average salary?"

"Currently, the Martial Arts Hall implements a three-month observation period policy; students unable to reach Body Technique Level 3 are all converted to workers."

Level 3 Martial Arts Hall students have 12,000 yuan monthly salary, so the average monthly salary is certainly at Level 4 or 5 student rank — about 5 to 10 times the HR Company's; Qian Li simply said nothing, head down, and left the office.

The second most painful thing in HR is recruiting staff with higher salaries than yourself; the most painful is when the company's own staff all have higher salaries than you.

Second week.

The first batch of 60 non-Martial-Arts-System professional architects and construction workers arrived at the West Continent; Liu Xinyu, in her capacity as Spiritual Mentor, took over the guidance work and arranged their housing and meals.

11 architects chose to be able to return home, mostly from bankrupt construction companies. The real estate boom was just rising, but arrears and triangular debts kept dragging down capital-weak companies and groups; employees bore the brunt, unemployment and low wages even unable to pay the mortgages on their self-built buildings, to the point of being put on bank blacklists.

The other 49 construction workers mostly came from out of town; due to being young, most could find work to support their families, but to live comfortably was extremely difficult. Difficulties in education, medical care, and all aspects were like cowhide ropes binding tighter and tighter; left with no choice, they chose to go "overseas," more than half even bringing their whole families.

This brought new problems to the Diamond Office Hall — for example, the safety of those curious children, and the unforeseen school issue.

Liao Fou's Basic Construction Group began interviewing workers and architects one by one, and the first question they asked was: "Do you know how to build railways?"

The interviews went smoothly, proving the Headhunter hadn't drawn a salary for nothing; as they neared the end, Liao Fou routinely asked the 40th architect, Le Zheng: "Do you know how to build railways?"

The other replied very disdainfully: "I've built airports, but never railways."

"How big an airport?"

Le Zheng looked at Liao Fou with the eye light one would use for a Zimbabwean official, saying: "D Airport Level."

D Airport Level is an airport flight area grade, second only to E Airport Level. D means usable runway length exceeds 1800 meters, E means maximum usable aircraft wingspan is less than 52 meters. Although D Airport Level airports cannot take off and land all public jets in the world, they can absolutely take off and land various transport aircraft at full weight.

Liao Fou immediately had ideas, tightly grasped Le Zheng's hand, and shouted: "Talent! I represent the West River Government in welcoming you!"

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