Frank Mulligan and Erik Gain join us today to take a close look at both online and traditional recruiting business model, their current trend in China and different type of candidates who use the recruiting platforms. They talk about the changes in hiring market since the global economic meltdown and how it has affected the expatriates in China. Find out if Mandarin skill is important for expatriate to start their career in China in this iTV-Asia program.

Erik Gain moved to Japan in February of 1994 to seek his fortune as an expat-entrepreneur, and has lived and established businesses in several destinations in Japan and China, including Nagoya, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

Gain's ventures span a wide range of industries, from teaching and translating, to Internet businesses and real estate. He is one of the co-founders and running Managing Director of GPlusMedia Co., Ltd, a Japan based corporation that publishes several of Japan's best known English-Japanese websites, including JapanToday.com, GaijinPot.com, and Ecentral.jp, the official jobsite of the ACCJ (American Chamber of Commerce in Japan). Gain returned to Shanghai in 2009 to expand their China based business, which focuses on the CareerEngine.org Jobsite Network. CareerEngine.org is an Asia-wide white label online job board platform, which is used to power job boards for a wide range of partners including major foreign chambers of commerce, online and print publications, and educational institutions.