Chapter 314: The Recruitment Inbox Exploded
Chapter 314: The Recruitment Inbox Exploded
After temporarily finishing the main framework of the script, Pei Qian felt thoroughly satisfied.
At this pace, if he added just a little more detail tomorrow, he could hand it straight over to Huang Sibo and the others.
“Alright, today’s work is basically done. Time to take a break!”
Out of habit, Pei Qian opened Aili Island, ready to binge some shows.
He hadn’t been watching for long when there was another knock on the office door.
Pei Qian looked up—it was Assistant Xin.
“President Pei, our company email inbox is about to overflow. The colleagues in HR are busy filtering and archiving emails right now, but there are simply too many resumes coming in. We urgently need to set a screening standard.”
Assistant Xin looked at Pei Qian, the unspoken implication being: this screening standard can only be decided by you.
Pei Qian: “???”
Pei Qian, who had been happily preparing to watch shows, was now full of surprise.
The inbox exploded?
How was that possible!
Highly alert, Pei Qian instantly sensed that something was wrong.
He hurriedly opened the company’s corporate email on his computer and found that the inbox was indeed filled with a massive number of unread emails. The glaring red number “999+” next to the inbox was extremely eye-catching!
“This… what’s going on?” Pei Qian felt a little dizzy.
Assistant Xin smiled. “It’s probably the effect of the official interview and your internal letter.”
“You’ll understand once you check the Weibo trending topics.”
“But right now, the most urgent thing is to determine a screening standard. With so many resumes, if we try to arrange interviews for all of them, we simply won’t have enough manpower.”
Pei Qian fell into a brief daze. After a moment of silence, he waved his hand. “Alright, you can go out first. I’ll call you once I’ve thought it through.”
Assistant Xin nodded and left.
Pei Qian felt that this matter wasn’t so simple—it definitely wasn’t something that could be solved just by setting a screening standard. He quickly opened Weibo.
As soon as he looked at the trending list, he saw that the topic ranked seventh was Tengda’s Internal Letter!
“What the hell is going on?!”
“I clearly posted it on the internal network—how did it end up trending on Weibo?!”
Pei Qian had almost completely forgotten about this.
His original intention in sending that internal letter was simply to encourage his employees to slack off more and take it easy, to help reduce his losses a little.
But after posting it on the internal network, the effect had been average. Quite a few employees had even showered him with exaggerated praise, which left Pei Qian extremely disappointed.
So Pei Qian stopped paying attention to it.
Who could have imagined that the next time he saw this piece of writing, it would be on Weibo’s trending topics!
Pei Qian hurriedly clicked in and discovered that his internal letter had been turned into a long screenshot and was being frantically reposted by netizens.
When he read the comments, his heart sank.
“Am I seeing things? This is really an internal letter sent by some boss?”
“Nothing capitalists say can be trusted… huh? Why doesn’t this match the script I imagined?”
“I’m so touched I’m crying. What kind of boss is this? Give me a dozen of them!”
“This is actually Tengda’s internal letter? Is Tengda hiring? I’ll take a pay cut just to get in!”
“Everyone, don’t be fooled. I think this is just hype! Even if this internal letter is real, it’s probably just about building a persona!”
“But my friend works at Tengda. Their benefits really are insanely good—this is true!”
“Some people say it’s just building a persona? Then why don’t other company bosses try building one too! You can do it as well, you can hype yourselves up too—do you dare send out an internal letter like this?”
“Hey, has anyone noticed that this open letter seems to be copied from a previous one, that ‘Only by Working Hard Can You Live Well’?”
“It really is! Everything’s completely reversed? Is this deliberate satire?”
“Oh my god, this is pure entertainment gold. I’m officially a fan of this boss now!”
“Holy crap, say no more—I’m submitting my resume to Tengda right now!”
The reaction from Weibo’s meme-loving netizens was far more intense than Pei Qian had expected.
When this internal letter was posted on the intranet, it did cause some response, but it was nowhere near this level of popularity.
That pinned post had been hanging at the top of the internal forum the whole time, with new replies appearing every day. But for most employees, reading it merely gave them a brief morale boost before they moved on.
After all, only Tengda employees could access the internal forum. People like Hao Qiong had long since grown accustomed to Tengda’s generous benefits.
So while everyone found the internal letter refreshing, they weren’t especially moved—because they already knew that President Pei was just that kind of good boss.
But once it reached Weibo, everything suddenly went off the rails!
Had those online jokers ever seen a company like this? A boss like this?
The earlier official interview on the company’s platform had already sung Tengda’s praises and sparked a certain level of discussion. Now, with another internal letter thrown into the mix, Tengda’s image instantly became firmly established in the minds of many netizens!
By this point, most people’s impression of Tengda was:
The boss is a true talent scout, exceptionally good at discovering capable people;
The employees are all highly competent, with a lively internal atmosphere and none of the rigid hierarchy typical of big corporations;
The benefits are outstanding, with no exploitation of employees;
So far, Tengda’s businesses span many industries—and all of them are doing remarkably well.
And there was one especially crucial point: Tengda is located in Jingzhou, a second-tier city. It has solid infrastructure, yet doesn’t come with the crushing cost-of-living pressure of top-tier megacities.
Taking all these factors together, Tengda instantly became a highly coveted target for job seekers!
As the saying goes, it’s not about recognizing quality—it’s about comparison.
When bosses at other companies were all preaching hustle culture, wolf culture, and claiming that “996 is a blessing,” Tengda’s boss did the exact opposite, telling employees in an internal letter to rest more and take care of their health.
This overflowing sense of humanistic concern moved countless corporate drones at other companies to tears!
As a result, many people on the internet spontaneously became “water armies” for Tengda, singing its praises on Weibo. Some went even further and directly started submitting resumes to Tengda!
After just a few days, Tengda’s corporate email inbox completely exploded. The 999+ emails were all job applications of every kind.
Pei Qian had anticipated that the official interview might lead to some negative consequences—but he never imagined it would be this severe!
Staring at the 999+ emails in the inbox, Pei Qian felt just as much of a headache as the HR staff at Tengda.
Though, for very different reasons.
For the HR team, this was simply a “happy problem.” With so many people fighting to get into Tengda, it naturally became easier to filter out truly outstanding talent.
But President Pei, on the other hand, felt stiff all over.
He didn’t actually mind supporting more employees. But what if among them were a few true elites? If he hired them and they casually turned projects that were losing money perfectly well into soaring successes, wouldn’t he end up coughing blood?
On the other hand, directly rejecting all of them wasn’t appropriate either.
Tengda was no longer some obscure little company. Plenty of people were watching it closely now.
If it became known that Tengda only hired mediocre employees and rejected all outstanding talent, would people start questioning Tengda as a company—or even President Pei’s motives?
Pei Qian couldn’t afford to let too many people doubt his intentions. Nor could he allow too many people to start doubting the system itself or the existence of the challenge.
“Recruitment needs a proper solution. Otherwise, the consequences will be endless.”
As Pei Qian pondered this, he realized that Tengda could now truly be considered a large company.
As Tengda’s business continued to expand in the future and more and more employees were hired, it would be impossible for him to personally oversee and select candidates the way he had before.
That meant the HR staff would inevitably keep discovering and recruiting outstanding talent.
And from President Pei’s perspective, wouldn’t that mean there would be more and more people who could stab him in the back?
Who could possibly withstand that?!
“I need to think of a way to filter out as many slackers as possible.”
“Truly outstanding employees are gold—they’ll shine wherever they go. Once they come to Tengda, they’ll definitely stab me in the back nonstop. I can’t take that. Not hiring this group and letting them shine at other companies isn’t wasting social resources anyway.”
“On the other hand, employees who are too trashy would be too obvious if hired. Some especially stupid people might even cause major scandals, which wouldn’t fit Tengda’s low-key style. It’s best not to hire them either.”
“So the goal is to find a group that’s relatively mediocre—slackers like Old Ma would be perfect. They do whatever they’re told, nice and obedient. As long as you point them in the wrong direction, you can guarantee losses.”
“Mm, that’s right. Figure out how to screen for slackers!”
Pei Qian rapidly thought through his countermeasures.
Half an hour later, he called Assistant Xin over.
“Issue an announcement saying that Tengda currently doesn’t have plans for large-scale recruitment. For the resumes that have already come in, have HR set up a talent pool and store them for now—we’ll talk about them later.”
“From now on, Tengda’s recruitment needs to become more standardized. During this period, I’ll have the HR department formulate a general selection standard. In the future, Tengda will regularly recruit talent according to that standard.”
Assistant Xin took notes.
“President Pei, the HR department has already filtered out a batch of promising candidates. Their resumes all look very good, covering various fields. Should we arrange interviews for them first?”
Pei Qian rejected this outright. “No!”
“Just because a resume looks impressive doesn’t mean the actual ability is strong. Right now, Tengda is a hot commodity in the eyes of job seekers. Among those submitting resumes, there must be plenty who are just trying to muddle through.”
“In the past, and in the future, Tengda will never select talent based solely on a piece of paper! What matters more is their actual capability.”
Assistant Xin nodded. “That’s true. Resume fraud is quite common these days. Since you have a better selection method in mind, President Pei, we’ll do it your way.”
Xin Hailu was well aware that President Pei had always chosen talent in unconventional ways. People like Huang Sibo and Lu Mingliang had all been promoted from the grassroots, and the results proved that they were indeed rare talents.
Since President Pei didn’t like these overly polished, shiny-resume candidates, then so be it.
Pei Qian, meanwhile, let out a sigh of relief. A potential backstab that had been right at his doorstep was successfully avoided.
Assistant Xin continued, “However, President Pei, many departments have recent plans to expand their staff. We still need a group of people to fill those vacant positions.”
Pei Qian thought for a moment. “Alright then. Departments that urgently need manpower can hire a batch at their discretion. If a department isn’t short on staff, then don’t hire any ‘reserve talents.’”
Assistant Xin nodded. “Understood.”
Pei Qian asked, “Who’s currently in charge of the HR department?”
Assistant Xin replied, “Xiao Hao.”
Pei Qian blinked. “Which Xiao Hao?”
Assistant Xin: “…Hao Yun.”
“Oh, them.” Pei Qian put on an expression that said I know them well, though in reality he’d never heard of them before and didn’t even know whether they were male or female.
But this couldn’t really be blamed on President Pei for not caring about his employees—there were simply too many people working under him now.
In Pei Qian’s eyes, the HR department was a relatively insignificant one. He hardly had the time or interest to memorize exactly who was who.
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