NEOMA Alumni Mag - N°15 - Juin 2018 - 48

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MAGAZINE

Most of the 800 alumni
in China live in Shanghai,
the most international
city.

Elsa Chan (CESEM 09)

François Lemonnier
(PGE 83)

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present, all middle-management positions require
Chinese and I see young people working on low
packages, barely above what a Chinese person
makes and half of what an expat package represented 15 years ago." A sign of the times: In his
compound, 80% of the residents used to be
expats 15 years ago, now 80% are Chinese. In
Shanghai since February 2017, Vincent Rocca
(PGE 15) is on one of these low starting packages.
Far from fluent after two months of intensive Chinese, he was still able to find a position as a business developer for Amaris, an independent
technology and management consulting group: "I
work from 9.15 AM until 8.30 PM and I earn 20%
less than I did in France, but I chose this position
to work with a Chinese team. For the time being I
still work in English but as my Chinese level
improves, I hope to access better positions," says
Vincent Rocca. More than the salary, what many
young professionals come to find in China today
is the opportunity for fast career progression: "In
China you work longer hours, but you are rewarded
more than in France and there are less barriers
to enter a new industry. For the last 3 years, I
have been doubling my salary every year," says
Kangming Chen (MSc in Global Management
Marketing 09). A Shanghai native, she is now
working as the head of Sales and Marketing for an
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