1. After working here for over two years, I can say that there is no culture of overtime for office-based staff. As long as you complete your work on time, almost everyone leaves work at 6 p.m.
2. The company’s senior employees and managers are always willing to answer questions and are quite supportive. I’m very grateful to them.
The company moved from Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road to Neihu, and there is no direct MRT access, so commuting is really inconvenient.
I joined the company last March. At the time, I had a one-on-one interview. The HR staff were very friendly throughout the interview and patiently explained all the relevant details. The manager then confirmed my employment during the second interview. I feel it is better that the company is willing to spend more time explaining everything clearly.
Over the past year or so, the hairdressing industry has changed considerably. The company has invested a significant budget in organizing events, including designer competitions and hair shows, helping Taiwanese hair designers step onto the world stage. I genuinely think it is great.
The annual company banquet and employee trips are both held at five-star hotels—places we usually would not be willing to visit ourselves.
There is a lot of professional knowledge to learn...
Globally, the company adopts a B2B strategy, but it is troubled by gray-market goods sold online.
There are many competing brands.
Employee benefits: discounts when buying things (no longer available......)
I really can't think of any advantages.
Those considering joining should think carefully about the following issues before deciding whether to accept a position.
1. This is a B2B company. The leadership insists on not entering the consumer (B2C) market, fearing it would damage existing B2B clients. Although it has a really good brand, its vision is very short-sighted, which is truly a shame. The products themselves are useful, but the company always operates with a sales mindset. They constantly talk about innovation, but once you join, you cannot really do anything. You can only follow their old methods. The marketing department has no annual budget, so in reality, they themselves have no strategy or idea of what kind of people they need to help the company.
2. You must maintain a personal social media presence. This is never mentioned during the interview. They care a lot about how many friends or followers you have and require you to maintain your own IG/FB accounts. Every week, you must report whether the number has grown. The supervisor also checks whether you have left comments or likes on other people's Facebook posts. Sometimes, if you do not interact enough on social media, you may be called into the office and lectured for at least two hours. They worry about things they should not worry about, while neglecting things they should care about... I find it extremely strange.
3. The boss may ask you to leave at any time. I have seen many sales employees suddenly being told to resign, which does not comply with the Labor Standards Act at all.
The dismissal is also announced suddenly before the end of the workday, and the date on the non-voluntary separation certificate is deliberately put three days later to evade the Labor Standards Act.
4. People who make it to the second interview should be careful. The boss will demand that you decide on the spot whether you want to work there and will not give you time to think. It is basically emotional blackmail. Also, a lot of time is spent during the interview... You can basically see that meetings are like this too: they waste time and have no focus. Since nobody dares to ask him to get to the point, work efficiency becomes extremely poor.
5. The supervisor is very mood-dependent: one moment something is okay, and the next moment it is not. They hire people hoping they will bring change, but then continue listening to suggestions from people who are not part of the company. It is not that this is necessarily wrong, but in that case, there is no point in hiring people to help, because it only wastes your time and theirs.... After joining, you will find that the work content and workload are fairly manageable. The most time-consuming part is adapting to the supervisor (who is also the boss). The boss may contact you on holidays, and what they talk about may be something like noticing that you have too few Facebook friends or something..... In short, even on days off, it does not feel like you are actually off.
6. During the interview, they will paint an overly rosy picture and give you high expectations, but in reality, there is basically nothing.... They then cite performance from 20 years ago when telling current employees how things used to be here. Also, there is no overtime pay here. They say that salaries are already very high, but when you calculate it, the excess effectively amounts to overtime pay.
Those are the six points in my review. I hope they help everyone. The brand is good, but the internal environment is not. BTW, this is a family-owned business.
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During the group interview, everyone had to go on stage and explain why they left their previous job. It was very awkward, especially since the questionnaire had already asked about it.
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The recruitment process involved a group audition in which each person had three minutes to introduce themselves. Then, during the week before I was scheduled to report to work, I had to take two days off to go to the company for interviews. Finally, when I reported for work, I discovered that the job duties and salary differed from what had been discussed during the interview.
Regarding one aspect of the salary, I was only informed after joining that I would also need to collect transportation-related or other relevant receipts each month to claim what was supposedly a “transportation allowance.” If the amount did not reach 2,000, it seemed that my base salary would be affected. The most baffling part was that every employee had to publicly display their personal Facebook account in front of the entire company during meetings and state how many posts they had published that week and how many were related to the company. Colleagues would rate them from the audience, and this apparently affected performance evaluation standards.
If you are considering joining, please think carefully. There are also all kinds of baffling unspoken rules at the company. In short, please think twice.......
.......Be cautious.
......Be even more cautious.
A company with absolutely no concept of branding. Its prices are on par with salon brands, yet it has no idea where its brand value lies—it only knows how to sell at a high price. Think twice before joining to do marketing.