Yet only a few ever arrived at the pinnacle. Job-hopping, for just a few hundred dollars more a month, became an Asian pastime. According to McCormick, this tended to make the workplace rigid and sometimes hostile. You had almost combative relationships between subordinates and superiors. John de Veyra, country manager in Manila for human resources advisory services company Hewitt Associates, says companies are increasingly recruiting workers who have something extra - the ability to lead, to think strategically, to look beyond borders.
Employees too are more picky.
According to John Chang, Hewitt's country manager in South Korea, the Crisis has so damaged the reputations of the chaebol that graduates are turning away from these once highly sought-after employers. They prefer to join multinationals. Asiaweek surveyed human resources experts across the region to find out what the hot jobs are . The age of the e-job has arrived. Many employers are also looking for people with international experience to take over from expatriates who may have left because of the Crisis.