Daniel Zou is an APAC recruiting lead at a Fortune 500 company. Over two decades, he has hired across China, Japan, and Vietnam — from factory-floor masters to C-suite.
He writes about Asia's labor markets from the inside: the numbers behind the headlines, and the people behind the numbers. Japan's demographic arithmetic, China's thirty-five-year-old curse, Vietnam's wage ladder — these are not abstractions to him. They are requisitions opened, offers negotiated, and lives watched at close range.
Everything here is drawn from public data and firsthand observation. Companies and candidates are anonymized; the numbers are not.
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